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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #megacities #cities #water #waterscarcity

"2025 #Tehran, #Iran, 20 million people in area, is only one month away from #zerowater (taps running dry), reservoirs 5% capacity, sixth year of worst #drought in 60 years, may force move of capital"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABotGcsz90

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#ZeroWater #water #filtration does work as advertised: 380ppm TDS down to 000ppm.

Naturally, the filtered water tastes worse; I'll have to see how it does as tea to find out if I want to remineralize it for that particular use case (which I imagine just means "mix it with the charcoal-filtered water from the fridge door", no need to buy minerals 😂)

Well, at least we're only in the /second/-worst category of water hardness going by #ZeroWater's "how long to expect your filter to last" scale. And in the middle of that zone, at that.

So ~10-12gal of water per filter (and if you factor in them obviously lowballing it, I'm hoping maybe even 14-15gal??).

OTOH, with humidifiers + some tea, I'm expecting to need possibly ~3.5gal/day, which means at /least/ 1 filter/week even if I round way up; probably more like 2x that.

We have very heavy water (high mineral content) where we live. It's hell on our coffee maker. We've been through 4 machines in the past 12 months.

Decided to get a water filter pitcher. Here are our TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) score before and after testing our water (240 vs 000). BTW: Anything over 150 is not preferred. #Zerowater