Will this filter remove the salty taste that is in tap water at some of the island resorts such as Atlantis in the Bahamas?
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I'm not sure...sorry....never been to island resorts. However, I am in Kabul, Afghanistan, and it did improve the taste of the water I was drinking. I know it doesn't purify the water, but I bought it because it filters the water for taste by removing things like nickel, chlorine, and lead (in general, metals that cause the water to taste weird). Hope this helps!
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No. Also the filtered water has light black or blue color and taste bad. Do not buy it.
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No, if you taste the filtered water and find it nothing wrong then there is really nothing wrong with it. But if it tasted like tap water, that means it's not doing the job.
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I can say that the water I get using these filters is great. No chemical taste, which our water does have without it. It's been a long time since I drank reverse osmosis water, so I can't remember to compare. Of course, if you want the cleanest water possible, removing even medication residues that are apparently showing up in our water systems, reverse osmosis gets it all, and these filters do not. We've been going back and forth about switching to reverse osmosis, for purer water. For taste alone, these are a great choice, and they remove things like heavy metals and chlorine. Where I live, when the city flushes the hydrants our water looks dirty from the unfiltered faucets, and these filters clean it right out, though we do have to change them more frequently when that happens!
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Since we use the local water supply we do not have sediment in our water, so I can't answer that part of the question. Our water is chlorinated and the filter takes out all odor of that or any other chemicals. We are very pleased with this product.
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I dont havr the sheet with me but i think so. On Berkeys website it will tell you what it filters. I know it does remove alot of taste from it. I live on San Antonio Texas and we have aquafer water. When I drink my girfriends Berky water it has almost no taste at all.
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Yes.If you research the manufacture there is some great info.Also if there is a lot of sand in the water it could affect the filters,you could look at installing sand filter
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I'm not really sure but I noticed that the filter makes the water odorless when I drink it.
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Hi Matthew, The LIFESAVER will filter almost anything that is not water soluble. Since salt is water soluble it bonds with the water molecule and the filter is unable to filter it out and desalinate sea water.
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Yes it will remove the chlorine and other contaminants from water so your water will have no taste the way it should be.
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Remove would not be the correct description. It will reduce dissolved minerals in the 70 to 95% range. So if you start with very high dissolved solids for example and iron sulfide is one of the dissolved salts there will still be some left. That said, when you smell iron you are really smelling H2S being liberated by iron reducing bacteria in the water supply system. The carbon filter in this device will remove that to below detection level.
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If you are talking about fluoride, no. You will need specialty filters, distillation, or reverse osmosis to remove fluoride from tap water.
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Yes. We have the Royal Berkey with 2 black filters & 2 white filters. The info listed on Amazon for each filter tells you what they remove. Also you can go to the Berkey web page for addition info. We are very happy with the taste & smell of our Berkey filtered water.
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It does, But I would Recommend two of these One just for sediment and One for taste and odor,that way the filter lasts longer. Im going to do that Now on mine because the city has so much sediment in the water it clogged up my new filter in four months. I have to buy another unit with the Basic filter on it.
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If you have any mineral content in your water it will slowly plug your machine and you will have to decalcify more often. Also removes any mineral taste you might have.
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The filter will not remove salts in the water, so it'd be safe to assume that fluoride also will not be removed. You need a reverse osmosis setup for fluoride removal. I'd like to see an answer from Lifesaver on this just to be sure.
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No it should not, unless your tap water tastes amazing. The water coming from my Tap Master filter tastes noticeably cleaner than our tap water. You should get a water test kit to find out for sure, and return it if it's not working properly.