Is There Any Household Method to Neutralize Arsenic in Drinking Water?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Not if he's been drinking that water.

BTW you can thank Bush for putting arsenic in your drinking water since he's the one who rolled back much of the proconsumer regulations clinton put in place.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but did you even read the link? From the very first sentence:

Although all of the drinking water supplied to our customers meets the current 50 parts per billion standard, some of the water does not meet the 10 parts per billion standard that will be effective in 2006.

[Drake Tungsten]

BTW you can thank Bush for putting arsenic in your drinking water

I thought I saw him pouring some suspicious liquid in the town reservoir...

[JohnT]

I think the arsenic is coming from all the dead whale bodily fluid runoff.

Oh, wait. He's now in Alberquerque. Never mind.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DanS


Roo? RO is readily available for the home. My parents have it.

The real question is what is the micron size of the filter? You'd need a filter which is smaller then the diameter of the Arsenic molecules other wise the Arsenic will just flow through just like salts do. Of course if Arsenic is smaller in size then H2O then, also like salt ions, RO won't help remove them at all.

[Dinner]

Clinton signed regulations demanding that Arsenic levels in drinking water be drastically cut in order to protect people from the long term risk of cancer. Bush sided with industry (as always) and not only reversed Clinton's stricter standards but even lowered the old one.

That is how Bush put more Arsenic in people's drinking water. I'm happy he's reversing course now but that's still five years late and I wonder if it just restores the original levels or if it enacts the stricter Clinton levels.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm more pissed at Bush for making it rain today. I was going to go look at the cherries...

[JohnT]

Bush sided with industry (as always) and not only reversed Clinton's stricter standards but even lowered the old one.

Cite?

Because everything else you said was wrong, why should I take your word for it anyway.

I'm happy he's reversing course now but that's still five years late and I wonder if it just restores the original levels or if it enacts the stricter Clinton levels.

You know, it took me all of five minutes of research to learn this:

a. Despite your contention, Clinton's EO was to take effect in 2006. So is the new EPA ruling. Did you not see my earlier post that stated just those points?
b. 50 ppb was the earlier standard, the standard that existed during the entirety of the Clinton administration, unchanged (and unnoticed) by him until a month before leaving office. Oh, and 10 ppb is the later standard, the one he Executive Ordered into law, with no debate, no chance for our elected representatives to vote on the measure.
c. Bush's proposal was to roll-back to the original, Clinton-era standards. On all the regulations. Not "make new ones", just roll them back to the standards that no one *****ed about during the 90s.

[Space05us]

He's now in Alberquerque

Not yet, In a few weeks
Im having trouble getting a kennel for my dog.


The tap water up here in Barrow is some of the cleanest in the world, I looked but couldnt find the water quality report online.

For those of you suggesting I drink beer or bottled water, you are clearly ignorant. Beer and bottled water comes from municipal sources just like tap water, and worse is that you dont know where it came from. It could actually be worse for you then your tap water.

Also Im not really too worried, its just that the healthier I can be the better.

[Jt Gaynor]

hey guy, dont be impressed by billion, its a relatively small number in the human anatomy

[My Wife Hates CIV]

pretty messed up right now... but that's ok

anyway.... seems like water is the rhewad... ok,,, I hike/campo.exploe some pretty renote places


IF you want clean water - I have this pump with a filer (filter is $65.... ) yeah, it's almost chraper to buy a whoile new one.

BUT... kick ass.... ok, ho don let me didng it... Katadyn Hiker , copy paste... but very goiood

every when tajing water nect to dead frog.... man I was thioesty.


I luv rrim.

[pchang]

Reverse Osmosis systems should be able to reduce concentrations to safe levels. Anyone getting drinking water out of Durango - lower Colorado River should probably consider this.

[kentonio]

Good advice guys, I'm sure he's waited 10 years to hear it..

[pchang]

I agree the advice is too late for Space, but I thought it timely considering the toxic spill outside Durango cause by the EPA.

[loinburger]

The best way is to drink the water, piss it out, and then drink your urine - the urine will have safe levels of arsenic

[loinburger]

There was once a GI Joe episode where they were fighting a humongous germ, and so they shot a bunch of apples into it because apple seeds contain cyanide. Two decades later I remembered this episode and thought "why didn't they just shoot cyanide at it?" My older brother remembered the episode when I reminded him about it and he agreed with me that the Joe team was not being very efficient.