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    Quote Originally Posted by Desertboy View Post
    Recover the water and feed it through again with a water pump and tank.
    Wont that eventually clog up the filters?

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    Keep recirculating until all you have is pure water and lumps of whatever

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    Quote Originally Posted by JOGARA View Post
    Wont that eventually clog up the filters?
    Discard the last 20% of water and the issue is slight but just using a higher pressure pump will give you much better efficiencies even without recirculation.

    Water with a TDS of 0 is very corrosive it's not really suitable for long term storage as it will leach from containers, I'm not sure a TDS meter would even detect plastics leeched as they are detecting the conductivity of the water (Salt levels).

    The other thing to consider with filter life is the input water. Not sure what you're tap water readings are but I get an EC of 0.4 out the tap in Leicester, in London it was 0.8 and in Sterling Scotland we were getting an ec of 0 out the tap!

    So a filter in London is not going to last as long as one in Leicester and in Sterling it'll probably last for years.

    Cost is only one part of the equation of course and even if it cost the same as buying distilled water there's inherent value in being able to process at home and you're water is probably purer then bought water which has sat in plastic leeching for god knows how long.

    We were using RO for hydroponics and Aquaponics so plastic leeching was more of an issue for us for most users it's a non issue.
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