Portable Water Filter Blog

1. Drip Drip Drip
Dripping faucets can waste gallons and gallons of water every day. A leaky toilet can use 90,000 gallons of water in a month. You solve this by changing the washers on your sinks and showers, or get new washer-less faucets. Of course, the easiest and cheapest way to start saving water is to properly maintain your sinks, showers, etc.
2. Good water habits
Try to stay aware of this precious resource disappearing while brushing your teeth or shaving and always wash laundry and dishes with full loads. When washing dishes by hand, fill up the sink and turn off the water. Take shorter showers or, if you have good friends, shower with a friend. To put things in perspective, take a quick look at your next water bill when it arrives. It probably won’t be costing you too much, but the average household consumes multiple thousands of gallons each month. See if you can make this number go down.
3. Stay off the bottle 
Bottled water sucks. In most first-world countries, the tap water is provided by a government utility and is tested regularly. Water tests have shown in many municipalities, tap water is actually better than bottled water. Bottled water is not as well regulated and studies have shown that it is not even particularly pure.  Most bottled water doesn’t come from an “Artesian spring” and is just tap water anyhow. Coca Cola is known for adding salt to Dasani bottled water so now you get salt from water not just the local fast food restaurant.  Reasons to avoid Bottled water are because it is even more expensive per gallon than gasoline, bottled water incurs a huge carbon footprint from its transportation, and the discarded bottles do not decompose. If you want to carry your water with you, get a filtered water bottle and fill it up as you go. Having a filter built into your water bottle will allow you to re-use the bottle and get great taste for free! If your water at home tastes funny, don’t worry cause your filtered water bottle will remove the bad taste, bad odor, and chlorine chemicals.
4. Harvest your rainwater
Put a rain barrel on your downspouts and use this water for irrigation. Rain cisterns come in all shapes and sizes ranging from large underground systems to smaller, freestanding ones.
5. At the car wash
Car washes are often more efficient than home washing and treat their water rather than letting it straight into the sewer system. But check to make sure that they clean and recycle the water.
6. Keep your eyes open
Report broken pipes, open hydrants, and excessive waste. Don’t be shy about pointing out leaks to your friends and family members, either. They might have tuned out the dripping sound a long time ago.
7. Don’t spike the punch
Water sources have to be protected. In many closed loop systems like those in cities around the Great Lakes, waste water is returned to the Lake that fresh water comes out of. Don’t pour chemicals down drains, or flush drugs down toilets; it could come back in diluted form in your water.

- Close to half of the U.S. population drinks bottled water on a regular basis, despite the fact that it can be up to 1,000 times more expensive than the tap.

- About one-quarter of U.S. bottled water comes from a municipal water source.

- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) conducted a study of 103 brands of bottled water (over 1,000 bottles were tested in all) and found that one-third contained synthetic organic chemicals and bacteria.

- The NRDC reported that a five-year supply of bottled water cost over $1,000 compared with $1.65 for the same amount of tap water.

If your like me and want something affordable, convenient, great tasting, and safe choose a filtered water bottle. Filtered water bottles give you more convenience because you can fill them up anywhere. They are safer because you can choose the level of filtration. They are more affordable because they cost between $.05 and $.30 depending on the filter level.

So stop wastiing your money and get a revolutionary filtered water bottle. Make a statement!

After reading this you’ll think twice before drinking water when in another country.   Did you know?
 

• Every 8 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease
• 50% of people in developing countries suffer from one or more water related disease
• 80% of these diseases in the developing countries are caused by contaminated water
• 50% of people on Earth lack adequate sanitation
• 20% of freshwater fish species have been pushed to the edge of extinction by contaminated water.

So next time before you go on that trip just reading these facts I would make sure to bring my own water.  Bring a filtered water bottle, just to be on the safe side I wouldn’t want to be in those statistics.

1. Determine how much water you need. You’ve probably heard the “8 by 8″ rule, drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day but the amount of water a person needs varies depending on his or her weight and activity level. A better way to determine your specific recommended water intake is to divide your weight by two. The resulting number is the number of ounces of water you need each day. For example, if you weigh 150 lbs., try to drink 75 ounces of water daily.

2. Measure your daily intake of water. Do this for a few days. If you find that you’re drinking less than the recommended quantity, try some of the following tips.

3. Carry water with you everywhere you go. Before long, you’ll find yourself reaching for it without a second thought.

4. Keep water next to you whenever you’ll be sitting down for a long time, such as when you’re at your desk at work.

5. Drink from it regularly as you’re working.

6. Try wearing a digital watch that beeps at the beginning of each hour. Use that as a reminder to take a few sips of water.

7. If you drink only 6 ounces per hour, you’ll have consumed 48 ounces by the end of an 8-hour workday.

8. Get a water filtration system. Filtered water tastes very good and may help make drinking water more appealing to you. Be aware, though, that as you grow accustomed to filtered water, you may find that tap water leaves a bad taste or odor in your mouth.

9. Add lemons or limes or other flavors to your water, it makes it taste better and makes you want to drink more of it. Be careful not to make it too sour, just a splash of sourness should do the trick. These are cheap alternatives to the bottled flavored water.

10. Eat water rich foods, such as fruits like watermelon, which is 92% water by weight. Cranberry juice is also another option, and has a bitter taste. A tomato is 95% water. An egg is about 74% water. A piece of lean meat is about 70% water.

11. Try exercising more to cause yourself to be thirstier and therefore drink more water.

The biggest difference can be achieved by filtering you water. Many people dislike water because of the bad taste, bad odors, and chlorine found in tap water. Once you have tasted filtered water for yourself you’ll never dislike water again!

Water is great but can be dissapointing when not filtered. The easiest way to filter water is to purchase a portable filtration device they come in all shapes and sizes. You can get a filtered bottle, canteen, pump, or pitcher… So don’t let the common excuses dealing with bad taste, bad odor, or too much chlorine prevent you from drinking you daily recommended amount of water!

Consumers are said to spend a collective $100 Billion every year on bottled water. The average 16 oz. bottle of drinking water from a convenient store costs approximately $0.89. You may think that this is relatively inexpensive, but I believe you’ll be surprised once you see the comparison in costs to that of portable filtered water. 

A 16oz carbon filtered water bottle initially costs approximately $13 and the filter life is estimated to last up to 80 gallons. Replacement filters for these water bottles are about $6.50each. 

Average Quality Water: 

• Filter lasts the approximately 80 gallons

• means that the 16oz bottle can be filled 640 times

•  If you divide $13 by 640 refills, it would cost $.02 every time you filled it up. NOW COMPARE THAT TO YOUR AVERAGE 16oz BOTTLE OF WATER.

• If you divide $6.50 by 640 refills, it would cost $.01 every time you filled the bottle up. So once you replace the original filter that came with your bottle it drops the cost by half!

You can calculate the savings yourself. STOP spending a fortune on bottle water! Get the best water through a filtered water bottle!