Need suggestion for good water filter with TDS adjuster
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Hi,
We only had borewell water since last few years which was hard and hence used Aquaguard RO reviva which was advised for our area.
However, we just got a municipal water supply a month or so ago. And now since the original water source isn't as hard or as bad, the water filter is now providing water with TDS 30-50. Is it safe or good for consumption?
I have read that water TDS should be above 100 as low TDS water removes minerals that can lead to long term health issues.
Do I need a new water filter? Or are there other options available? In both cases, I would appreciate any suggestions/options.
Thank you very much for your help.
We only had borewell water since last few years which was hard and hence used Aquaguard RO reviva which was advised for our area.
However, we just got a municipal water supply a month or so ago. And now since the original water source isn't as hard or as bad, the water filter is now providing water with TDS 30-50. Is it safe or good for consumption?
I have read that water TDS should be above 100 as low TDS water removes minerals that can lead to long term health issues.
Do I need a new water filter? Or are there other options available? In both cases, I would appreciate any suggestions/options.
Thank you very much for your help.
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no it's not below 50 it can cause prolonged problems with pains, gouts issues and irregular bowel syndrome and many more. op is correct with the statement below 100 will cause issues.
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happy to know that your product/purchase (aquaguard RO reviva) gave good service to you, over many years (I assume).
While I too am now looking for answers for: which would be a good product with TDS adjustment feature
I thought of adding some points.
but before that, just for my reference, any idea about the average TDS levels of the subsoil water that was earlier fed into the aquaguard?
Now about your query on the TDS levels being low.
It is said that the (neuroplasticity included) Homo sapiens' brain takes about twenty five years to fully develop.
Maybe the rest of the body takes lesser time or about the same time.
Most of the rapid growth and foundational changes happen in the early years of life.
Usually it is children upto about ten years or age or pre-teens who might develop issues later in life, if their diet and lifestyle is not wholesome in those childhood years.
Maybe for 'those' young children it might be slightly important to consider the long term impact (if any) of consuming completely desalinated water over long periods of time (like years or decades).
It has been reasonably well established that generally, those adults with a healthy lifestyle, balanced diets, good habits (and less vices or zero vices) as it is have a fairly robust chemical composition and chemical activity going on in their bodies.
Given how much privileged backgrounds most of us come from, having desalinated water (similar to the distilled water used to top up batteries too) in our adult lives, should not have ANY adverse impact.
Just the other day, saw some lad i his early twenties, in tattered clothes, picking up food strewn outside some venue, from the street/ground and eating it.
Painful as it was to watch another being do so
he himself seemed fine, on the face of it.
As he walked away happily afterwards, I (and others) were taken in with the above thoughts.. that indeed we all ought to be thankful for whatever we have in life.
If i may hazard a guess, even those youngsters who are growing up and are pre-teens, too can live healthy and instead of the burger, pizza, jalebi, kachori diet..
.. include enough (pesticides free) fresh fruits, dry fruits, leafy vegetables, safe to consume poultry, meat, sea foods
and ALL their nutrition requirements will be adequately met.
While the dissolved minerals, salts in the water is a vital source, it is not THE ONLY source of those things.
It in-fact only fractionally aides the body in its requirements of those minerals.
The potable water supplied in larger cities have their own unique challenges too.
Many times, the water pipes and the sewage drains or the pipelines run in close proximity too.
The homeless, the slum-dwellers or others often sabotage or break open the drinking water pipes for their own use.
However the damage to those pipelines by others or over time (by the elements) often leaves them vulnerable to ingress of the sewage or the debris from the rain water drains.
Not to mention that often the ground level water tanks and the over head tanks in many buildings are not that properly maintained, often left open by watchmen or others and hardly emptied out every 6-7 months for a through cleaning.
Taking ALL these factors into consideration, it is not a bad idea to have distilled water/desalinated water.
Although the average household water purifier do precious little to remove heavy metal poisoning, lead, arsenic type things from the drinking water.
While I too am now looking for answers for: which would be a good product with TDS adjustment feature
I thought of adding some points.
but before that, just for my reference, any idea about the average TDS levels of the subsoil water that was earlier fed into the aquaguard?
Now about your query on the TDS levels being low.
It is said that the (neuroplasticity included) Homo sapiens' brain takes about twenty five years to fully develop.
Maybe the rest of the body takes lesser time or about the same time.
Most of the rapid growth and foundational changes happen in the early years of life.
Usually it is children upto about ten years or age or pre-teens who might develop issues later in life, if their diet and lifestyle is not wholesome in those childhood years.
Maybe for 'those' young children it might be slightly important to consider the long term impact (if any) of consuming completely desalinated water over long periods of time (like years or decades).
It has been reasonably well established that generally, those adults with a healthy lifestyle, balanced diets, good habits (and less vices or zero vices) as it is have a fairly robust chemical composition and chemical activity going on in their bodies.
Given how much privileged backgrounds most of us come from, having desalinated water (similar to the distilled water used to top up batteries too) in our adult lives, should not have ANY adverse impact.
Just the other day, saw some lad i his early twenties, in tattered clothes, picking up food strewn outside some venue, from the street/ground and eating it.
Painful as it was to watch another being do so
he himself seemed fine, on the face of it.
As he walked away happily afterwards, I (and others) were taken in with the above thoughts.. that indeed we all ought to be thankful for whatever we have in life.
If i may hazard a guess, even those youngsters who are growing up and are pre-teens, too can live healthy and instead of the burger, pizza, jalebi, kachori diet..
.. include enough (pesticides free) fresh fruits, dry fruits, leafy vegetables, safe to consume poultry, meat, sea foods
and ALL their nutrition requirements will be adequately met.
While the dissolved minerals, salts in the water is a vital source, it is not THE ONLY source of those things.
It in-fact only fractionally aides the body in its requirements of those minerals.
The potable water supplied in larger cities have their own unique challenges too.
Many times, the water pipes and the sewage drains or the pipelines run in close proximity too.
The homeless, the slum-dwellers or others often sabotage or break open the drinking water pipes for their own use.
However the damage to those pipelines by others or over time (by the elements) often leaves them vulnerable to ingress of the sewage or the debris from the rain water drains.
Not to mention that often the ground level water tanks and the over head tanks in many buildings are not that properly maintained, often left open by watchmen or others and hardly emptied out every 6-7 months for a through cleaning.
Taking ALL these factors into consideration, it is not a bad idea to have distilled water/desalinated water.
Although the average household water purifier do precious little to remove heavy metal poisoning, lead, arsenic type things from the drinking water.
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Thank you very much. With borewell water, average TDS at source was 800-1000 depending on seasons.
With municipality water now, average TDS is 200-300, but some days it can be higher.
The RO reduces TDS by average 80-90 percent, so earlier TDS from water filter would be 80-130, but now it has gone down to 30-60.
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you should go for a uv ray based water filter and i would suggest adding an extra filter from the source to the safe and sure
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now i have FOMO... as to what might have been said earlier.
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Yes TDS should be above 100 always. Livpure Pep Pro plus + has tds adjuster. Kent also has models with TDS adjuster.
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#AalaLuffy hope you do not take the misinformation in his first line too seriously. Otherwise he has listed two options. I do not know if these options are really giving TDS management feature. I am just acknowledging that he tried giving relevant information to you.
If your product is otherwise working and if others in your household dp not have issues managing it or paying for the occasional replacement of consumables then I would say that 'status wuo' is much better.
But to each their own.
I too do feel that we all have enough means to consume stuff and not be minerals deficient just because of consuming pure H2O.
If you feel comfortable disclosing, are there young kids in the household? Or let it be, you can decide on your own.. based on what works.
One can rather spend more to find or procure seasonal things like shehtoot /mulberries, phalsa (a type of berry), sweet tamarind and other seasonal things.
If kids (or even adults) regularly have such diverse things, then one's taste for them too develops.,
There isn't really Amy risk in consuming pure water, in so far as I know.
If your product is otherwise working and if others in your household dp not have issues managing it or paying for the occasional replacement of consumables then I would say that 'status wuo' is much better.
But to each their own.
I too do feel that we all have enough means to consume stuff and not be minerals deficient just because of consuming pure H2O.
If you feel comfortable disclosing, are there young kids in the household? Or let it be, you can decide on your own.. based on what works.
One can rather spend more to find or procure seasonal things like shehtoot /mulberries, phalsa (a type of berry), sweet tamarind and other seasonal things.
If kids (or even adults) regularly have such diverse things, then one's taste for them too develops.,
There isn't really Amy risk in consuming pure water, in so far as I know.
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U should have bought uv based water filter
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If the TDS in your supply water is below 150-200, better not to use RO purifier.
If you can spend around 9K comfortably, buy a UV/UF purifier or else get TDS adjustment cartridge added to your existing one if that's possible.
I bought V Guard Rejive UV+UF steel tank for 10K 5 months back...now it is for 9K.
Initially finalised HUL pureit but got V guard due to steel tank. So far working good.
https://www.amazon.in/V-Guard-RequPro-Stainless...
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TDS below 50 is okay, nothing to worry about. Food should be able to cover any minerals etc