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08-15-2007, 03:33 AM
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-i agree 100%, i know tap water isn't the best but definitely shouldn't be brown!
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08-15-2007, 03:42 AM
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I'm no scientist, but I think it has more to do with how the light hits, refracts, reflects on/around/about the particles in the water, than something actually wrong with the water itself. Note that the bottom bucket has a colour too. A bluish tinge. My last draw of Victoria tapwater to my RO/DI metered 20ppm going in. Not bad. But there definitely is stuff that gets removed. Before RO/DI, I used to get a brown ring in my changewater totes. Now that I use RO/DI....no brown ring.
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Mark. Last edited by Johnny Reefer; 08-15-2007 at 03:45 AM.
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08-15-2007, 04:12 AM
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I've seen a few tanks that actually look spectacular on just tap water + conditioner.
Regardless that is quite the photo comparison! Did you happen to measure the TDS in both buckets?
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08-15-2007, 04:13 AM
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Sorry don't have a TDS meter.
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08-15-2007, 04:14 AM
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I think if everyone filled up a 5 gal bucket of their tap water...it would have a tint to it.
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08-15-2007, 05:10 AM
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On a more sinister note........
I live in Slave Lake. Apparently, the natural water table runs down from Swan Hills to discharge in Lesser Slave Lake.... I don't know if anyone here has seen it, but it's a massive lake. We all know what's located in Swan Hills, AB...... Well, if you're an Enviromentalist...... This can't be good for my tap water. Last edited by scsi; 08-15-2007 at 05:12 AM. Reason: spelling
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