[at-l] Mercury Hot Spots Discovered

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

Yep, You may want to trust charcoal, works great for 
molecules like amines and sulfides.  To remove heavy metal 
ions one needs an ion exchange resin (water wouldn't be 
drinakable because of high slt content) or you need to 
distill the water.  I would rather buy water than to pump 
water from a highly contaminated source.

PS  The claims by the people who make filters are not 
regulated by any government agency (except the FTC who are 
after lot bigger fish).

Grey Owl


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:26:29 EST
>From: RoksnRoots@aol.com  
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Mercury Hot Spots Discovered  
>To: AT-L@Backcountry.net
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>In a message dated 3/11/2005 11:23:19 AM Eastern Standard 
Time, 
>greyowl@rcn.com writes:
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>You all can filter all you want, but you aint't going to 
>filter out mercury or lead or any other heavy metals.
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>          If I recall correctly my First Need filter said it 
would filter 
>heavy metals. Also, the charcoal in the filter naturally 
catches chemicals. 
>That's why they design it with charcoal. (R'nR who isn't a 
chemist, but can read 
>the label on the filter without "speculating")
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