I can see the silver bits of metal on my clothes, even if I dry them indoors they are there as they are in the tap water. I filled a glass jug the other day with tap water, the sunlight illuminated millions of tiny particles in the water, they seemed to all be moving in the same direction. We drink reverse osmosis (RO) water now since 2012 when we saw a programme on Edge Media about the dissolved yuk in our tap water that becomes visible when a current is passed through it. It hurts me to think of all the billions of people drinking unfiltered water and what this stuff is doing to their insides. I feel that these visible metal particulates really only began in 2012 (maybe I am wrong) as I never saw them in the beam of my torch or on my clothes before then. I moved home in the spring of 2011 and bagged up some clothes that I had line dried before I moved, I left them untouched until the other day when I looked closely at these clothes and to my surprise I did not see one bit of metal on any of them. I always do a final rinse with RO water on my washing now and after a shower too, it stops my skin itching.

I recommend RO water to everyone, if you live alone then a counter top system is ok if you have patients as it takes a while for the water to filter through the membrane, I collect the waste water to flush the toilet. A under the sink version with a bladder to collect water is better for a family as the water comes out faster. I would not recommend the new “alkalising” RO filters which are filled with ORP balls which are said to make water more of an anti-oxidant. I brought on from the US thinking it had tourmaline balls made from the crystal, which had many health benefits, it wasn’t until we started drinking the water which increasingly tasted metallic and smelt funny too, that I discovered that these balls are made from other things mixed with the powdered crystal which is then made into balls. So we are sticking to the usual mineralising filter which doesn’t produce miracles in increasing the PH but adds some minerals back which have been filtered out. I don’t notice the difference of having this filter on our system compare to not, we have it just to make sure.