ZeroWater pH Controversy
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2022
- Once again we have some claims made regarding ZeroWater Filters. This time it's about the pH
levels being dangerously low and bad for health. Is this true?
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I been using ZERO for about 10 years now and haven’t switched. My teeth are in great shape, I’m 62 and still have all of them except my wisdom teeth, no cavities or health issues from it.
In my opinion these filters may not filter ALL chemicals and microbes BUT, it sure beats drinking tap water this day and age. Especially since there's a lot of dangerous stuff being purposely put in our drinking water.
So i got my zerowater today ( a lot earlier than expected ) and I'm just astonished that it rlly works and im very happy that i found zerowater because i know exactly how clear water tastes and zerowater delivers that quality 100% also the "non-believers" part cracked me up
The soda and coffee got me, but pouring water in a small tube over your keyboard is true bravery!
Thanks, my household was recently under a boil water order. I have a zero water filter, (which removes most chemicals) but it not safe with microbes "go figure". So I took my tap water added bleach let it sit for awhile then ran it through the filter to try and remove any chemicals from the bleach. It appears to be a good solution to boiling my drinking water. I am refining the method.
Please don’t add bleach to tap water prior to filtering it, that’s crazy.
3 safe ways to kill all microorganisms is :
1 boil the filtered zero water after filtering or
2 use a water distiller prior to using your zero water filter like I do
3. Ozone water generators will kill microbes safely and all the ozone disappears
lol you probably cooked the filter after half a tank
Apparently, zero got rid of all fluoride, yay, in the lab sample. Unfortunately it didn't do as well in removing disinfectant residues. Got rid of some, but USA water regulator says that some of these residues can be amongst the most toxic. Although, unlikely to do us harm as the amounts in tap drinking water are generally miniscule. Epic Water did better on these, but only removed about 60% ish of fluoride. For me, Fluoride is the biggest concern. Great in toothpaste & mouthwash we spit out. Bad if too much is in drinking water for bones, joints & overall health.
I only got to know about this after my Dad passed away from cancer. His secondary cancer was in his bones. We've lived all our lives in hard water areas. I then started to wonder why secondary bone cancer was higher than average where my Dad lived all his life. He drank loads of tap water, never filtered, and was always drinking tea made with boiled tap water. Fluoride is chalky & industrial. Hence it can deteriorate bone density if ingested too much. Not great for arteries either.
In other tests, zero water was infamous for doing nothing against fluoride while excelling at everything else.
Fluoride is not good for you in anything even toothpaste dude. It's a nanotoxin and made from the afterparts of smelting aluminum. It's to keep us poisoned and dumb.
I don't understand people not believing in the "zero hardness isn't great to drink" idea, but also believing the "fluoride is really bad for you" idea. People talk about fluoride like it is "Bill Gates putting microchips in the covid vaccine".
Thank you for this informative video. Taught me something 🙂
My girlfriend's Welsh, so she doesn't have to worry about water quality, as only drinks pop. We call it taffwater
Great video thanks for the breakdown funny and informative 😄
As weird as it sounds. My zero water filter makes my waters PH actually higher than the tap water. I am not sure why, but my tap water goes from 6.8 to a higher 7.8-8 when I filter it through the zero water.
If you tap water 049 save your money on filters and just drink from the tap and add some baking soda.
All I know is that it doesn't taste like the water I drink from a brita. The tap water pH where I live is 7.5, so leaning slightly alkaline. Based on the graphs I've seen, zerowater would lower the alkalinity of the local water enough to change the taste to something that some people might find unpleasant for water. For example, it gives me a dry-mouth, almost salty aftertaste, like I've been chewing on saltines. I don't feel refreshed by it; in fact, it leaves me feeling thirstier. That's an indication of too much acidity, so I'm guessing that the zerowater is bringing the pH down below 6.5. The water from the brita tastes cool and refreshing, probably because it's closer to the neutral pH range of spring water.
The more acidic your fluids throughout the day, the more thirsty you're going to feel; that's why drinking coke or coffee makes you feel thirstier. That's because your body is craving a more alkaline pH, around 7.35 to 7.45. That's why people make a big deal about the alkalinity of drinking water. It's okay for your caffeinated beverages to be a little acidic, but you need alkalinity in your other liquids to balance that out. If you drink nothing but acidic fluids all day you're not going to feel well because it imbalances your natural pH, dropping it below 7.35.
This is why you see sodium bicarbonate as an ingredient in most bottled water. People generally don't like the taste of acidic water, so they have to add the bicarbonate to increase the alkalinity and bring it back into the neutral range that we find pleasant and refreshing.
I can see how zerowater would be a good thing if you live in an area where the tap water has a high pH, but most tap water is treated to keep the pH in the neutral range (i. the Pittsburgh tap water I'm drinking), so any filtration system that reduces alkalinity should probably be avoided.
My acid reflux has severely flared up after starting to use the ZeroWater dispenser for the past several days. My diet has been normal. Then I began looking more into ZeroWater and there are numerous videos showing that the filter reduces pH quite a bit. I wanted really "clean" filtered water, but don't think this will work well for my stomach issues. :/
Hi. Work in UK water treatment. Technically the difference in pH between the 2 samples could be due to source, unless the same site supplies water to both your house and work. Also its best practice to test the water that you used to zero the meter. Colour metric tests can be affected by different thickness of glass on test bottle, or fine scratches etc. Good video tho. Just waiting for my zero to be delivered.
Nah bro, water will always be significantly more acidic when you remove all the conductive particles. That's an inherent downside of filtering to 0 tds. I add fulvic and humic mineral blend to my water or one of my other two supplements that go in water such as my potassium supplement. Even simple electrolyte and hydration blends will fix this issue I believe. This would be the equivalent of reliving all particulate to 0 tds and then adding back the good stuff
Hey man if you use supplements, which you prolly should, this is a non issue. I use liquid suppliments such as Trace brand fulvic and humic trace mineral blend as welll as a liquid potasssium supplement and Vital Earth brand Super Multi liquid multi vitamin. All of these on their own add tds back to the water in the form of everything you would need to be healthy as well as in a form that is excellent for absorbtion. This also rectifies the acidity issue brought about by the filter because the suppliments are serving as conductive particles, which is what tds meter is detecting and thus it fixes PH, but with only good particles
Are restaurants using 0 water to cook the rice or are they using dirty tap water
takeaway food not an option
Could you please review zero water vs lifestraw? I’ve been a zero water costumer for almost a decade but just heard amazing things about lifestraw and how it removes microplastics. Also the plastic on my newest dispenser cracked near the nozzle after only 5 months, when my last dispenser lasted me 7yrs. Not sure why, but bummed out by it and might switch to the glass pitcher with lifestraw…
I was just checking pH because I'm starting to grow... tomatoes, my tap water is coming at 7.52 after the zero water filter at .000ppm it's reading 4.49 so I'm definitely going to adjust the pH before drinking from now on
After filtering the water, I read on the Ph stripe something between 3 and 4.
I want to know what molecules does the filter release, when catches the others from the water. Is the Ion-exchange resin in the filter a "food grade" or an "industrial grade" - this is very important for me to know...
So I just got a zero water filter (literally to filter out nitrates from tap water in order to add fresh nitrate-free water to my aquarium. Upon testing the water, it did indeed have no nitrates, :) no nitrate, but it dropped my ph from 7.5 to 5.0?? What you think?
I'm not very familiar with aquariums but I would think that a pH of 5.0 is too low for a fish tank. What are you using to test the pH?
Here in Canada we have pretty good tap water, it's about 125TDS and 7.0 PH, I drink Zero water Daily, it's better then other things that people are drinking, I am sure I heard you can add baking Soda to water to raise the PH? I do not know if that works, or is good for you? Can you test that out please?
Baking soda will raise pH but you only need a very small amount. Even a few grams in a litre of water can raise pH significantly.
I believe you need to add a key lime and it will add minerals and raise the ph
Thanks for the informative video. I'm across the pond in NYC and my family has been using Zero Water for at least a decade. Our tap water has a tds of 33, so our filter cartridges last about 3-5 months before tds goes to 0.01. and we change it. Problem is NYC tap water is fluorinated. Do you think that the Zero Water filter also cleans up the fluoride? Could you test for that on your machine?
Apparently after official tests, results came back that Zero Water filtered water had no fluoride in it. The vid is on RUclips.
@@TheJellyBabyxxxx Great to hear 👍 All that fluoride is bad for people. Thanks for the update.
@@TheJellyBabyxxxx And it's not just RUclips. ZeroWater sent off samples to their own lab and it came back 99% of fluoride removed.
your filters last 3 months??? theyre only good for like 40-60 gallons with average tap water
Well I'm not sure weather NYC tap water is average or not, but pre-filtered straight from the tap our water usually tests somewhere in the range of 25-35 t.d.s. on the meter. I noticed that it varies slightly time to time. I test the meter every Sunday when I test the Zero filter's water to see if it needs a filter change, after the water still tests zero, I fill a cup of water from the tap and test that usually at around 33tds, just to make sure my meter is still working.
We use the filtered water day in and day out, so were definitely putting more than 60 gallon's of water through it, but we only have to change out the 2-3 times a year, so I'd say about 2.5 times a year. We've been through a few of the canisters over the years because of breakage, or forgetting them somewhere when traveling, but that's a small sacrifice to pay for the 12-16 (at least) of zero tds water.
First of all, I appreciate the creator of this video! 👍hats off!
but....
pitchers are BAD! you want your filter to be undisturbed and in a 2 reservoir setup. You want a porcelain water crock dispenser with the 2 tier reservoir above, zero contamination, zero disturbance to the filter and no water sitting in the filter! you want your filter to be still! the water passes through and continues to 'setup', particulates settling in and even increasing filtration, and passing into the washable porcelain reservoir below. If the water is sitting in the filter it's collecting bacteria AND it displaces the weight of the filter's contents decreasing filter strength and every time it's moved especially tilted on angle as when pouring everything is disturbed and bacteria gets deeper.
I have this setup, it was working perfectly a roommate, cleaned the crock and disturbed the filter setup, 2 days later the flavor went from crystal clean perfect taste to funky lemon water taste.
So anyway that's my thought s on pitchers in general, I think the content in this video could be even more cemented with the deep under-resevoir and making sure the water stays below the filter... Okay, cheers!
An interesting point and something I'd not considered before
Thanks for your tests! I‘m from Germany (Munich), have just measures the tap water at my dorm - it is 215 TDS… So, yeah, I‘m not buying ZeroWater as my filter because it will work only for max. 2 weeeks for my tap water….. brita, let‘s go
Trink doch einfach Black Forrest
Nice test.
At 5:12, a 6.5 pH reading is an acid.
I notice my dentures are turning briwn lately with zero water knock off filters
What is the linearity of the pH analyzer? It says
Where I live, the tap water comes up reading as 269! Can not believe your water is 0.49. I've been poisoned for years
Bonjour,
J'ai fait l'achat d'une carafe ZeroWater de 7l,5, mais on n'a toujours ce mauvais goût su robinet
Autre question : Est-ce que ça peut faire venir des bactéries si on garde l'eau filtrée dans la carafe et en bouteille
Merci d'avance pour la réponse.
I used my zero water filter too long and it became acidic. But it does lower the pH the tap water is 8.0 and it lowers it to about 7.0.
What's so bad about acidic water
Bonsoir,
Attention avant d'installer le filtre dans la carafe de ZeroWater, il faut passer le filtre sous l'eau tiède pendant 10 secondes
Bonjour,
J'ai fait l'achat d'une carafe ZeroWater de 7l,5,
mais on n'a toujours ce mauvais goût su robinet
Autre question : Est-ce que ça peut faire venir des bactéries
si on garde l'eau filtrée dans la carafe et en bouteille
Merci d'avance pour la réponse.
The problem with this whole thing is your tap TDS is astronomically lower than the water in the US. The zeolite (filter media) acts not unlike a catalytic converter in a car's exhaust. It's actively performing a chemical reaction to lock the TDS in the water to itself. The less TDS you have, the less zeolite is consumed. Once the zeolite is depleted the nasty smell and odor starts then you get change in pH.
I was a beverage tech for a stint in my life and pH as well as TDS measurements was something I had to perform. Soda fountains and coffee makers can get gummed up, not let the drinks taste right, or even become unable to hold carbonation depending. changing filters of different types was part of my job. You can't outright compare someone else's experience with the product considering your TDS is so low from the tap from go. Depending on water source as well as concentration of certain minerals it could deplete the media much quicker if their usage is identical to yours.
Also, to address the minerals, the reason why it can kill you is because pure water is ionically attractive (which is why another name of pure water and distilled water is also called deionized water) and will scavenge for minerals to bond with. It's not that you're not getting the minerals from the water; it's because the water is taking things out of you. How do you think those solids got into the water? The water molecules pulled the molecules from the rocks and other materials in the aquifer. Inside your body is just another source of TDS's to bond with. Water in the body is noting more than a nutrient/garbage exchange system that also allow neurons to transmit impulses and to cool us down when hot. If nothing is attached to it when it comes in, it most defiantly is taking something out.
Finally, the pH. As I said the media is used for chemically removing and trapping the solids. What does that media turn into? Something that leeches acid. You have to remember its all about chemistry and physics. Yes, just because it's acidic, that doesn't mean it's the end of the world, but phosphoric acid and hydrochloric acid we can handle. You can have hydrofluoric acid at the same pH as what's in coffee, but hydrofluoric is stupid toxic. Same for sulfuric. You shouldn't dismiss the acid claim because you're not seeing it. Who knows what acid these things produce. Harmless? Maybe, but it can't be good to just chug along drinking it. You have to figure your body needs to convert this crap and as a result your bodily pH is now off and you could be metabolizing this acid into something more dangerous and illness-inducing.
In conclusion, if you want to make Coca-Cola Blak you need less instant coffee crystals in the coke base. Any dolt knows that.
So you were a coke machine repair man? 😃
Have you of zero Water filter
& if so what do you think bout it thanks
Would replacing the minerals solve the ionic problem in our body?
I drank Zero water and it killed me...at how reasonably priced it was for the quality water it produced. I don't let it sit outside the refrigerator so microbes won't start growing. I start with awesome quality mountain spring water and get a product that is great as a final cleaning for glass. It won't leave any water spots. It makes much clearer ice too.
TIP; the rectangular Zero water filter system's lid is airtight. Therefore leave an air gap so a vacuum won't prevent water flow, until top tank has emptied.
Tested 7.4 on project farm. Tap water 7.9. A 0.4 drop.
whats your opinion on the zero water faucet filter?
Was the tap water you checked the pH from the same source as the ZeroWater or was it from the health club?
my oh is red i have GH tet and yeah red . What should i do Help please and TY
Question, if ZeroWater lower pH levels and the water in my area is already low pH (please consider 4.5), will lower pH by 1 (3.5 pH)?
No. It increases to the 10th power every time, so it will be very hard to get it to 3.5, it will probably drop it .1 or .2 if anything.
Hahaha nice thanx
so should i buy it or no?
Depends on how hard and how clean your tap water is. The worse your tap water is, the less time the filter will last.
check out the teir list made by modern castle he says zero is c and water drop is s
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hahaha i can so relate to the frustration caused by the idiots that still think pure water is bad for ya 🤣
Your ZeroWater TDS meter is skewed down. Your tap water is not ~40 TDS. Most tap water, unless in a 3rd world country, is likely closer to 100-200. You also did not calibrate your PH meter.
I think you are one of the people in the comments that he was talking about in his video. It doesn’t help to critique him he is doing all of us a favor making these videos so we can be educated on the positive effects of using a zero water filter. If you know all the procedures of testing PH then create a video and share your knowledge
Wow you have a water tds of 049 in london it's 179 and above fluctuates higher never lower.
London water is disgusting, and we pay through a lot for it.
Unfortunately London has some of the worst tap water in the UK. Mind you it's not so bad when you consider some of the tap water in the USA is above 500!