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Originally Posted by Nova Filtration

The water here is treated with Chlorine as know,
here's an article on the health concerns I want to pass on FYI.

chlorine is a major cause of heart disease:

“Experimental use of chlorine to kill bacteria in public water supplies began around the turn of this century and was generally accepted in Western countries in the l920’s. Part of the chlorine reacts with organic impurities to form organochlorins (DDT is an Organo-chlorine) while the rest remains as residual free chlorine in the water. It may then react either with food chemicals or with parts of our digestive tract."

From 1920 onwards the explosive increase in the incidence of cardiovascular disease and fatal heart attacks began, but only in countries that chlorinated their water supplies. These diseases remained unknown, for instance, in China, Japan, Africa and ASIA. However, when Japanese citizens immigrated to Hawaii where water was chlorinated, they suffered the same rate of heart attacks as the Americans, and the black population in the US have the average US rate of heart attacks but not their brothers in Africa. Inhabitants of the non-chlorinated Roseto in Pennsylvania remained free of heart attacks unless they moved to a chlorinated area.

In 1967 a Dr J. Price in the US performed a decisive experiment. With one group of 50 three-month-old chickens (cockerels) he added one third of a teaspoon of chlorine bleach to about one liter of water whilst another group of 50 chickens served as controls. Seven months later over 95 per cent of the chlorinated group had advanced atherosclerosis, yet none of the control group showed any such evidence.

In the following years Dr Price repeated his experiment many times, always with the same results, and recently even researchers funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency have confirmed atherosclerotic type changes in other animals, including monkeys, when exposed to chlorinated water.”

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Our 4 1/2" X 20" 5 microns Coconut carbon (compressed in a block preventing bypass) filters your whole house from Chlorine to , at 99.8%, it lasts 12-15 months before change out.

Don't think your tiny carbon filter in the fridge protects you for real.

It is at best 15-20 micron effectiveness, moreover it is not coconut carbon but lose carbon granular.

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Would like to see someone with a pool or spa run a test strip for chlorine under the faucet and post the results