Water pressure conundrum

[DShK]

https://www.offgridwater.net/pages/about

 

"We began on London's canals, fed up with rationing our water and spending our saturdays filling up the tanks."

 

You can't make it up.

 

For 1800 quid I would want some third party testing reassuring me that they aren't just some sponges in tupperware. 

[blackrose]

7 minutes ago, DShK said:

For 1800 quid I would want some third party testing reassuring me that they aren't just some sponges in tupperware. 

 

Even if the filter elements are fit for purpose there's always a possibility that some water gets past the element without actually being filtered.

 

Reminds me of that story I heard on here years ago about the guy who couldn't understand why he filled his integral water tank much less than his neighbours and other boaters he saw and he assumed they just used more than him. When the boat finally came out the water they found a small hole below the waterline at the bow! I'm not sure if he'd been drinking it. 🤮

[Sea Dog]

1 hour ago, DShK said:

"We began on London's canals, fed up with rationing our water and spending our saturdays filling up the tanks."

 

You can't make it up.

Maybe not, but even if you could make it up, it wouldn't be as bonkers as actually doing it!

How much water do you need to use to have to have to spend every Saturday filling your tanks back up? How can that sort of consumption be despite rationing? Something doesn't add up here. Is this a cruise liner posting on the wrong forum? 

[Alan de Enfield]

2 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

Maybe not, but even if you could make it up, it wouldn't be as bonkers as actually doing it!

How much water do you need to use to have to have to spend every Saturday filling your tanks back up? How can that sort of consumption be despite rationing? Something doesn't add up here. Is this a cruise liner posting on the wrong forum? 

 

 

One can only assume that it is someone with what they think of as a floating flat rather than a boat. Of course, a floating flat should have access to the same services as a land based flat - including unlimited water.

 

It is London ..........................

[Rincewind]

33 minutes ago, blackrose said:

Even if the filter elements are fit for purpose there's always a possibility that some water gets past the element without actually being filtered.

Does anyone really know what you are drinking?

You may be interested to know that on the outskirts of Warrington there are several boreholes that are used to extract drinking water from aquifer's. At one of these boreholes arsenic leaches into the water through the bedrock.  United Utilities were required to build an Adsorption plant to remove some of the arsenic before the water was fed into the mains.  (Adsorption, simply put, = Very large filter!)   

Take note that I said some of the arsenic! 

At this particular site around 80% of the water was treated while the other 20% bypassed the adsorption process and was remixed before being fed into the mains!  UU was not allowed to remove all of the contaminant - by law!  (even though it was possible to do so). The percentage of removal / treatment depended of course on whatever the concentration of contaminant was in the water being pumped up and this was closely and continuously monitored.

i.e., Adsorption percentage being treated was 'site specific'.

This is not 'hearsay' by the way - I was tasked with writing the Company Standard / maintenance manual for this (and similar) Adsorption processes on behalf of UU.

Apparently, a little bit of arsenic does you good!  Personally, I prefer a large glass of malt whiskey!

 

[Sea Dog]

10 hours ago, Rincewind said:

Does anyone really know what you are drinking?

From your extensive post it appears you have answered your own question with a resounding "Yes"!