My wife is pushing for one of these very expensive home water treatment/filtration systems, but it all feels like a scam to me. No one I know has one, so turning to random strangers on the internet for opinions.

Edit: We’re on city water in a decent area. No well water. It’s more about removing the chlorine and microplastics than anything.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The first thing to do is to pull the water report for your area. For the US, most can be found here. Tap water database.

    the EWG is bullshit scaremongering site that says anything functionally above 0 is CONTAMINATION. And what do you know, theres easy links to buy filters that solve every imaginary problem they try to scare you with right on the very same pages.

    A simple search about EWG shows that everyone has some very legitimate and serious criticism about their utter bullshit.

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/environmental-working-group-ewg/

    Even the biasfactcheck rates it as pseudoscience.