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To: John Mansfield who wrote (82)4/2/1999 10:40:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston   of 90
 
WATER FILTERS: May need carbon-filter

The Big Berkey and the Katadyns use ceramic filters that only filter-out sediment and the larger micro-organisms. Smaller micro-organisms (mostly viruses) and more to the point here, chemicals are NOT filtered-out by the Berkey or Katadyns.

The only exception is when a carbon-filter is used in conjunction with the ceramic - a little bit of some chemicals is filtered-out by the carbon-filter, but not much.

It's raining pesticides
newscientist.com
Studies in Switzerland have found that rain is laced with toxic levels of atrazine, alachlor and other commonly used crop sprays ... much of the precipitation in Europe contains such high levels of dissolved pesticides that it would be illegal to supply it as drinking water.

FULL DISCUSSION HERE:
greenspun.com

Cheryl
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