It comes right out of the tap, you can get it bottled, it makes up 65% of a human, and it’s essential for life. It’s water, and getting clean water is essential to your good health.

Most people don’t worry a lot about their water, and when it comes to off-grid, more people are worry about solar or wind systems. Water is often forgotten.

The PureMaster V-750 is a home water filtration system, giving you pure filtered water, not in a jug or a bottle, but right through your normal taps.

The PureMaster uses 7 different stages to filter water.

The first is a prefilter, filtering out larger contaminants and particles which could clog the later filters.

Next, the redox potential stage chemically alters inorganic particles into harmless substances such as chlorine.

The next five stages are actual filtration. Two of these are “macro filtration”, which use granular activated carbon to filter out larger contaminants and impurities. The next two are “micro filtration”, which also use activated carbon, but on a smaller scale to target smaller contaminants. The final stage is “sub-micro-filtration”, providing even finer filtration using activated carbon.

The PureMaster boasts no reduction in water pressure from using the system. The “EvenFlow MaxContact”, besides being cool corporate-speak, is a fine screen after the filtration stages.

It’s designed to provide greater water distribution by allowing the water to filter through the entire diameter of the filtration system. Not only does it allow for no reduction in water pressure, but it allows the filters to be more effective at filtering out contaminants.

The PureMaster product page provides a list of the contaminants it filters out:

Completely removes or significantly reduces Chlorine, Chloramine/Chloramines, sediment, cysts, copepods, VOCs, SOCs, THMs, PAHs, trace heavy metals (i.e. lead, mercury, or iron), MTBEs, atrazine, benzene, xylene, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, tastes, odors and hundreds of other potential contaminants and harmful chemicals from the water entering your business or home

The PureMasteruses NSF certified filter media, and will last for about 7 years, or 750,000 gallons of water.

While this does not make you off-grid, it certainly allows for filtering of water from sources such as rainwater collection.

The biggest benefit of this system is that it provides filtered water to all your faucets. You’ll be getting filtered water not just in your kitchen, but in your shower, in your laundry, in your garden hose, and even in your toilet as well.

You won’t have to worry about re-filling jugs, and most importantly, you won’t be tempted to turn to bottled water, which as we all know, is almost as bad for the environment as driving a convoy of hummers around.

Equinox Products provides phone consultations as well to make sure you’re getting the right product for your needs.

You can order it or get more information from the product page.

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 In the last post we talked about Stefani Water Purifiers. While researching their site, I came across one of their other products: a water bottle with an integrated water purifier!

This is Stefani’s Filter Bottle, and is one of those products that begs the question, why didn’t someone think of this sooner?!

The Filter bottle is an 18oz water bottle with a Stefani water purifier right inside. You can fill it up anywhere and get the same filtered water as you would from your jug at home.

The bottle is filled from the bottom, with a screw-cap, and it starts filtering as soon as you squeeze the bottle. A large pre-filter prevents any larger materials from ever entering the bottle and clogging up the purification system.

The purifying filters will last to produce about 100 gallons of water, and is the best alternative to bottled water I’ve seen so far. This filter bottle eliminates the need for bottled water entirely, and even has some additional benefits.

Besides saving the environment from millions of plastic bottles, the filter bottle allows you to re-fill your bottle like a standard water bottle, but also gives you the pure filtered water of your home water purifyer. It’s portable like bottled water, but since you can re-fill it, there’s no need to carry 2 or 3 around on a hot day.

Saving the environment was never so convenient.

You can get the filter bottle for only $34 from Stefani.

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Bottled water is everywhere right now, and I have to admit it’s convenient. Unfortunately, it’s terrible on the environment. All that plastic, all those shipping and transport trucks, just for something that comes right out of your tap.

Well if you’re not a fan of straight tap water, have a look at water purifiers. They’ll give you the same great tasting water like the bottled kind, but are a lot cheaper, and a lot more green.

Stefani Water Purifiers are a great, natural way to purify water. They use “natural gravity feed water purification”, which is basically just running the water through several filters and purifiers. The filters are “silver coated dechlorinating/sterilizing ceramic filters”, and contain activated charcoal.

Activated charcoal helps remove things like chlorine, bacteria, lead, viruses, fungus, and whole lot more. The company claims their filters will remove a whole bunch of common contaminents, check out the list:

99.9% Bacteria
99.9% Amoeba
99.7% Copper
99.6% Lead
98.5% Chlorine
99.4% Iron
99.4% Zinc
97.0% Bromoform
95.0% Dichlorobromomethane
94.5% Aluminum
93.0% Chloroform
93.0% Dibromochloromethane
92.0% Dieldrine
87.0% Lindane

While I’m not sure what half of those are, I’m glad things like chloroform and dichlorobromomethane are going to be removed from my water.

The most important message here is to cut back on bottled water. Get yourself a water bottle and a water purifier.

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