Bangkok Drinking Water Purifiers

[zorro1]

I was about to purchase a reverse osmosis system for my condo at home pro when the salesman threw a spanner in the works and showed me the fujika hollow membrane system which filters to 0.01 micron ( 1 billion)

Sounds pretty safe to me and a lot less bulky and no water tank required. Also a few thousand BHT cheaper. Anybody had experience with the hollow fibre system? (different to the UV purifier)

[sutnyod]

I was about to purchase a reverse osmosis system for my condo at home pro when the salesman threw a spanner in the works and showed me the fujika hollow membrane system which filters to 0.01 micron ( 1 billion)

Sounds pretty safe to me and a lot less bulky and no water tank required. Also a few thousand BHT cheaper. Anybody had experience with the hollow fibre system? (different to the UV purifier)

I take it you are going to filter tap water for drinking? Don't. Bangkok is in a marshy area and the heavy metal content in the tap water is excessively high. Or are your filtering systems going to take care of that?

[zorro1]

I was about to purchase a reverse osmosis system for my condo at home pro when the salesman threw a spanner in the works and showed me the fujika hollow membrane system which filters to 0.01 micron ( 1 billion)

Sounds pretty safe to me and a lot less bulky and no water tank required. Also a few thousand BHT cheaper. Anybody had experience with the hollow fibre system? (different to the UV purifier)

I take it you are going to filter tap water for drinking? Don't. Bangkok is in a marshy area and the heavy metal content in the tap water is excessively high. Or are your filtering systems going to take care of that?

oh I didnt know that. the hollow fibre system filters everything except minerals and calcium , don't know about heavy metals though. The reverse osmosis filters everything absolutely but you end up missing out on the minerals and calcium. All very confusing but I'm tired of lugging around drinking water

[sutnyod]

Hi Zorro,

unfortunately I misplaced the link, but there was a study done by WHO I think. Heavy metal content in Bkk water is unacceptably high. And you know it accumulates in the body. As a rule of thumb: every place near a river mouth and/or swampy surroundings is rich in heavy metals because they come with the river (or ground) water and tend to settle here.

I remember I major scandal (was it UNICEF) many years ago when they had a well-drilling programme. Nobody knew about this problem before, nobody checked for heavy metals and then everybody wondered why people got sick and died. Now every country should have a heavy metal load database (at least the countries I worked in had). If you have friends at UNICEF maybe they could give you more info.

[Trevor]

How about drinking coconut water? Cheap and filtered-by-nature. Healthy coconut flesh thrown in as well. 100% Biodegradable. Perfect electrolyte. That's what I drink.

[Deke]

If you live in Bangkok and use city water (biologically safe), a simple, two-stage filter consisting of sediment filter and activated carbon filter will pretty much insure that your water is clean and palatable and that your demise will not be the result of drinking water.

[zorro1]

I too was a coconut man but unfortunately it turned my hair curly so had to stop. Ended up getting a 4 filter set up so that should do it

[Tony Clifton]

I wouldn't trust any water filters sold here as long as weight loss electric belts are allowed to be sold on tv.

[zorro1]

I wouldn't trust any water filters sold here as long as weight loss electric belts are allowed to be sold on tv.

gee I spent 10 hours on the internet researching what I was about to buy and now after reading your excellent article I will have to go back to coconuts and curly hair

[Trevor]

Well, 5000 years of eating coconuts hasn't turned the Thais' hair curly yet -- much as they would like.

All filters have their limitations. Unless you're supplying water to a large family I would say go for coconuts and supplement with glass-bottled water. Add a dash of lime juice to the bottled water to give it some structure. And you can recycle the bottles. Healthy and environmentally-friendly.

If you do need a lot of water from filtration just fill up on a side street or apartment block with an RO or ozone machine ... bring your own containers.

[zorro1]

Well, 5000 years of eating coconuts hasn't turned the Thais' hair curly yet -- much as they would like.

All filters have their limitations. Unless you're supplying water to a large family I would say go for coconuts and supplement with glass-bottled water. Add a dash of lime juice to the bottled water to give it some structure. And you can recycle the bottles. Healthy and environmentally-friendly.

If you do need a lot of water from filtration just fill up on a side street or apartment block with an RO or ozone machine ... bring your own containers.

thanks for your help. rinsing off fruit and veges became a bit of chore as well. Its installed but tastes rather watery