Water Filter

[toucano]

Hi, just wanted to ask if it's easy to buy water filters in Bangkok.

I plan to buy some to take back to my wife's home town,

If someone can point me in the right direction would be great thanks

[Thanyaburi Mac]

HomePro, HomeWorks, DOHome, for sure. Perhaps/probably (?) also at Tesco-Lotus, BigC.

Might depend on just how large a water filter you want.

Mac

[toucano]

Great thanks for the info

Regards Rich

[astral]

Just check out the cleaning procedures.

Some can simply be back flushed to remove the filtered matter.

Often the final filter is ceramic and will need replacing from time to time.

[Bagwan]

I know nothing of water filtration (and many other things) but several people have told me that the reverse osmosis method is a con and almost totally ineffective. I note that such equipment in the UK cost about 300 UKP. If they are on sale in the UK I assume that there are benefits or the Consumers Association and/or local authorities would have stepped in to have them taken off the market. Have not checked but there seems to be a plentiful supply in the D-I-Y shops I go to in Pattaya so they must be a lot cheaper here.

Any professional care to put me straight?

[Bagwan]

I have been told by a few people that the reverse osmosis method provides few benefits and is a con. I note that such equipment is on sale in the UK for about 300 UKP and figure that if it is not up to much then the Consumers Association and/or fair trading officials would step in and have plenty to say if not outright banning them. Any professional care to comment?

[Eff1n2ret]

I have been told by a few people that the reverse osmosis method provides few benefits and is a con. I note that such equipment is on sale in the UK for about 300 UKP and figure that if it is not up to much then the Consumers Association and/or fair trading officials would step in and have plenty to say if not outright banning them. Any professional care to comment?

I saw a TV programme not so long ago about the various strategies Singapore has adopted to ensure an adequate supply of fresh water in the coming decades, one of which is converting seawater by reverse osmosis. If they are using it, I would have thought that method has something to recommend it.

In the UK there may be few benefits accruing from filtering tap water, which is already drinking quality (albeit reeking of chlorine sometimes).

[PattayaParent]

Saudi Arabia and other ME countries use RO desalination plants to provide water to their countries but I don't konw how effective it is in a small undersink unit treating tap water.

There are plenty of models available though that don't have the RO unit as part of them.

[tutsiwarrior]

RO has it's application in the sea water desalination process but for specific applications only...most large scale/commercial sea water desalination processes in the Middle East are thermally based and connected to waste heat from power generation that would otherwise be lost...I can't see an RO unit as being effective for a home based application as membranes and heavy pumping capacity are required...RO can be used for low volume applications like for boiler make up for a conventional power plant but we're talking about industrial quantities...

I got a three element (carbon, resin and ceramic) filtration system at home and the elements need changing after 3 months of service but we got 11 people in the house, so...just hope the shop has replacements like he said he would...man, the tap water tasted so good when first installed...the kids preferred it to coke...