Tulsa Tap Water

My Water Filter After 1 Year Of Use

I used part of my SBD earnings last year to invest in a water filter for our family that removes 99% of water contaminants. I was concerned about fluoride, plastics, herbicides, pesticides, bacteria, viruses, and metals. I bought Propur because it is priced within my range and has great test results.

I was shocked to see how dirty the filter had become! We drink and use for cooking around 8 gallons of water a day for a family five. I've been aware that most of our cities drinking water have become polluted with industrial chemicals. However, I had no idea that many pharmaceuticals are also in our drinking water like antidepressants.

Drugs in the water

Spavinaw Water Project

Tulsa's water is taken from two lakes surrounded by Chicken farms. The runoff is full of chemicals Tulsa's water plant has to clean up. The process and chemicals used to purify the water are linked below. Tulsa has clean water compared to other cities water, but they still put fluoride in their water and don't filter for or treat other chemical contaminants. Plus I don't trust people, we aren't perfect, data is omitted to save one's job, and accidents can happen!

I grew up in rural Oregon drinking well water. We always filtered our water in the country because of farming chemicals polluting our groundwater. Many people think living in the country well water must be pure. Sadly, farming Christmas trees and berries requires heavy use of herbicides and pesticides.

McKenzie Tree Farm

Drinking out of wilderness streams has always been risky because our modernized gut which has little defense against naturally occurring bacteria that were harmless to us in the past can sicken us now. I never caught beaver fever as a kid, but many of my friends did. Even when I was six years old and playing out in the woods, I was always careful not to drink from our streams. The Cascade mountain streams look clean and beautiful, cool, clear water from snow-pack runoff but you never know what is hiding in the water that can make you sick.

Clackamas Rivers and Streams

Giardiasis-beaver fever

Porpur Water Filter

The ProOne®G2.0 filter has been tested in accordance with NSF- 42 and 53 standards, and the only “ALL-IN-ONE” CONTAMINANTS & FLUORIDE GRAVITY WATER FILTER that qualifies as a microbiological water purifier by NSF Protocol P231.Test results by Envirotek Labratories, Inc., certified by the state of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection show the ProOne®G2.0 filter removes and/or reduces contaminants including heavy metals, VOC’s, monochloramines, pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceutical drugs, fluoride, bacteria, viruses, Giardia and more without the need of any add-on filters. Even the contaminants that were found in the Toledo and West Virginia water supplies are covered by the ProOne®G2.0 filter. For complete lab report details, please click on the tabs below. Click here for most current Envirotek Lab Report Certification.

Tulsa Oklahoma Treatment Process

The water then travels into a "Rapid Mix" where Aluminum Chlorohydrate and cationic polymer are added as coagulants. The coagulated particles in the water cling together and form larger particles, called floc, in a process called flocculation. After mixing, the water and the floc flow into a sedimentation basin. Here the floc settles to the bottom and is pumped from the water to sludge thickening basins for disposal. The clarified water flows over weirs at the end of the clarifiers (or basins). At this point, roughly 95- 97% of all suspended particles present in the water have been removed.

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