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Mena kei te rapu koe i te huarahi māmā ki te tiki wai inu tātari i te kāinga, ka tūtohu mātou i te Tātari Brita Elite me te ipu Brita Standard 10-kapu, te ipu Brita 27-kapu rānei (ki te mea he nui te wai e whakamahia ana e tō kāinga). He ipu wai Ultramax. Engari i mua i tō whiriwhiri i tētahi o aua mea, kia mōhio koe, i muri i te tata ki te tekau tau o te rangahau ki te tātari wai kāinga, e whakapono ana mātou ko ngā tātari i raro i te totohu, i raro rānei i te paipa te kōwhiringa pai rawa atu. Ka roa ake te ora, ka tere ake te tuku wai ma, ka whakaiti i ngā poke, ka iti ake te tūponotanga kia purua, ā, he meneti noa iho te roa o te tāutanga.
Neke atu i te 30 ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF o tēnei tauira—he nui atu i tētahi atu tātari o tōna akomanga—ā, kua hangaia kia ono marama te roa i waenga i ngā whakakapinga. Engari, pērā i ngā tātari katoa, ka taea te ārai.
Ko te ipu wai Brita rongonui te mea nui mō te ipu wai tātari, ā, he māmā ake te whakamahi me te pupuri kia ma i te nuinga o ngā tauira Brita.
Ka taea e te mīhini wai Brita te pupuri i te wai e ranea ana mō te rā mō tētahi whānau nui, ā, he ngāwari noa iho te whakamahi a te taputapu ārai-tauraki mā ngā tamariki.
Kua whakamātauhia te kaha o ngā mīhini tohatoha LifeStraw ki te tango i ngā tini poke, tae atu ki te mata, ā, he ātete ake ā rātou tātari ki te aukati i tētahi atu tātari kua whakamatautauria e mātou.
Neke atu i te 30 ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF o tēnei tauira (he nui ake i tētahi atu tātari o tōna akomanga) ā, kua hangaia kia ono marama te roa i waenga i ngā whakakapinga. Engari, pērā i ngā tātari katoa, ka taea te ārai.
Ko ngā tātari Brita Elite ngā tātari tino whai hua a Brita, ā, kua whakamanahia e ANSI/NSF hei tātari i ngā poke maha atu i tētahi atu tātari whāngai-papa kua whakamatautauria e mātou, tae atu ki te mata, te mercury, te cadmium, te PFOA me te PFAS me ētahi atu. Ngā poke” e kitea nuitia ana i roto i te wai tap. He 120 karani te roa o tōna oranga, e ono marama rānei, e toru ngā wā te roa o te oranga kua whakatauhia o te nuinga o ngā tātari. I te wā roa, ka iti ake pea te utu o te whakamahi i te Elite i tētahi tātari noa ake. tātari e rua marama. Heoi, i mua i te pahemotanga o ngā marama e ono, ka ārai pea te paru i roto i te wai. Ki te mōhio koe he ma tō wai tap, engari hei whakapai ake i tōna reka, inā koa te wai reka-hauora, whakamahia he ipu Brita paerewa. He iti ake te utu o te tohatoha tātari, ā, he iti ake te tūponotanga ka ārai, engari kāore i whakamanahia kei roto he mata, he matū ahumahi rānei. hononga.
Ko te ipu wai Brita rongonui te mea nui mō te ipu wai tātari, ā, he māmā ake te whakamahi me te pupuri kia ma i te nuinga o ngā tauira Brita.
I roto i ngā pounamu wai Brita maha, ko tā mātou tino pai ko te Brita Standard Everyday Water Bottle 10 Cup. Nā te hoahoa o ngā kokonga me ngā kapiti ka māmā ake te horoi i ērā atu ipu Brita, ā, nā te taupoki kotahi-ringa ka māmā ake te whakakī anō. He pai ake hoki te kakau piko-C i te kakau koki-D e kitea ana i te nuinga o ngā pounamu Brita.
Ka taea e te mīhini wai Brita te pupuri i te wai e ranea ana mō te rā mō tētahi whānau nui, ā, he ngāwari noa iho te whakamahi a te taputapu ārai-tauraki mā ngā tamariki.
E 27 kapu wai te rahi o te wai e taea ana te pupuri i te pūwero wai Brita Ultramax (18 kapu i roto i te pūwero tātari, ā, e 9, e 10 rānei kapu i roto i te pūwero o runga). Nā tōna hoahoa angiangi ka penapena wāhi i roto i te pouaka whakamātao, ā, ka kati aunoa te pūwero i muri i te ringihanga hei ārai i te waipuke. He huarahi watea tēnei kia nui tonu te wai matao kua tātarihia.
Kua whakamātauhia te kaha o ngā mīhini tohatoha LifeStraw ki te tango i ngā tini poke, tae atu ki te mata, ā, he ātete ake ā rātou tātari ki te aukati i tētahi atu tātari kua whakamatautauria e mātou.
I rere mātou i te 2.5 karani wai kua tino poke i te waikura mā roto i te mīhini whakaputa wai kāinga LifeStraw, ā, ahakoa i pōturi te wai i te mutunga, kāore i mutu te tātari. Koinei tā mātou whiringa mārama mō te hunga kua pāngia e ngā aukati i roto i ētahi atu tātari wai (tae atu ki tā mātou whiringa pai ko Brita Elite) e rapu ana rānei i tētahi otinga mō te wai tap e mōhiotia ana he waikura, he paru rānei. E whā ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF a LifeStraw (hauora, reka me te kakara, mata me te mercury) ā, kua whakamatautauria motuhaketia e ngā taiwhanga whaimana kia tutuki ai ngā paerewa horoi ANSI/NSF maha atu.
Kua whakamātautau ahau i ngā tātari wai Wirecutter mai i te tau 2016. I roto i taku pūrongo, i kōrero roa ahau ki a NSF me te Water Quality Institute, ngā whakahaere tiwhikete tātari nui e rua i te United States, kia mārama ai ahau ki te whakahaere i ā rātou whakamātautau. Kua uiuitia e au ngā māngai o te maha o ngā kaihanga tātari wai hei whakahē i ā rātou kereme. He maha ngā tātari me ngā ipu kua whakamahia e au i roto i ngā tau nā te mea he mea tino nui te roa o te mau, te ngāwari me te utu o te tiaki, me te ngāwari ki te whakamahi mō tētahi mea e whakamahia ana e koe i ngā wā maha i te rā.
Nā te kaipūtaiao NOAA o mua, nā John Holecek, i rangahau, i tuhi hoki i tētahi putanga o mua o tēnei aratohu, i whakahaere i āna ake whakamātautau, ā, i whakahau i ētahi atu whakamātautau motuhake.
Ko tēnei aratohu mā te hunga e hiahia ana ki tētahi tātari wai āhua hūpā hei whakakī i ā rātou wai puna, hei pupuri hoki i roto i te pouaka whakamātao.
Ko te painga o te tātari ipu he ngāwari ki te whakamahi. Ko tāu noa he whakakī i aua tātari mai i te puna wai, kātahi ka tatari kia mahi te tātari. He iti hoki te utu mō te hoko, ā, ko ngā tātari whakakapinga (e hiahiatia ana i ia rua marama) he iti iho i te $15 te utu.
He maha ngā ngoikoretanga o ēnei tātari. He iti ake ngā poke ka taea te tango atu i te nuinga o ngā tātari kei raro i te totohu, kei raro rānei i te pūwero, nā te mea e whakawhirinaki ana ki te kaha ā-papa kaua ki te pēhanga wai, ā, me iti ake te matotoru o te tātari.
Nā te whakawhirinaki ki te kaha ā-papa, ka puhoi hoki ngā tātari ipu: ka roa pea te whakakī kotahi o te wai mai i te puna wai o runga mā roto i te tātari, ā, he maha ngā wā ka hiahiatia he whakakī anō kia kī tonu ai te ipu wai mā.
Ka purua ngā tātari pitī nā te paru i roto i te wai puna, nā ngā mirumiru hau iti rānei mai i ngā pūwero hau o te taputapu.
Mō ēnei take, ka tūtohu mātou kia tāutahia he tātari ki raro i te totohu, ki runga rānei i te taputapu mēnā e tika ana.
I te Hononga o Amerika, ko ngā tuku wai tūmatanui e whakahaeretia ana e te Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) i raro i te Safe Inu Water Act, ā, ko te wai e puta mai ana i ngā whare maimoatanga wai tūmatanui me tutuki i ngā paerewa kounga tino pakari. Heoi, kāore i te whakahaeretia ngā poke katoa.
Hei tāpiritanga, ka taea e ngā poke te tomo mai i muri i te putanga o te wai i te tipu maimoatanga mā roto i ngā paipa turuturu, mā roto rānei i te turuturu o ngā paipa (mēnā he mata). Mēnā ka mahia, ka kore rānei e arohia te maimoatanga wai i te tipu, ka kino ake te turuturu o ngā paipa o raro iho, pērā i te mea i tupu i Flint, Michigan.
Hei kimi i te mea tika kei roto i te wai o tō kaiwhakarato, ka taea e koe te rapu ipurangi mō te Pūrongo Whakapono Kaihoko (CCR) a tō kaiwhakarato ā-rohe kua whakaaetia e te EPA. Ki te kore, me whakarato e ngā kaiwhakarato wai tūmatanui katoa ā rātou CCR ki a koe ina tonoa.
Engari nā te mea ka taea te poke i raro i te wai, ko te huarahi anake hei whakatau he aha kei roto i te wai o tō whare ko te whakamātautau. Ka taea e tō taiwhanga kounga wai o te rohe te mahi i tēnei, ka taea rānei e koe te whakamahi i tētahi kete whakamātautau kāinga. I tirohia e mātou te 11 o aua mea i roto i tā mātou aratohu, ā, i tino miharo mātou ki te Tap Score a SimpleLab, he ngāwari ki te whakamahi, ā, e whakarato ana i tētahi pūrongo taipitopito, mārama hoki mō ngā poke kei roto i tō wai tap, mēnā he poke kei roto.
Mā te whakamātautau wai ā-rohe SimpleLab Tap Score matatau ka whakaratohia he tātaritanga whānui o tō wai inu, ā, he ngāwari hoki ki te pānui i ngā hua.
Hei whakarite kia tūtohu noa mātou i ngā tātari ka taea e koe te whakawhirinaki, kua roa mātou e tohe ana kia tutuki ā mātou whiringa i te paerewa koura: te tiwhikete ANSI/NSF. Ko te American National Standards Institute (ANSI) me te National Science Foundation (NSF) he whakahaere tūmataiti, kore-moni e mahi tahi ana me te Environmental Protection Agency, ngā kaihanga me ētahi atu tohunga ki te whakawhanake i ngā paerewa kounga pakari me te whakamātautau i ngā mano tini o ngā hua, tae atu ki ngā tikanga wai. tātari.
I muri iho i te whakamahinga o ngā tauira "whakamātautau" he tino poke ake i te nuinga o te wai puna, ka taea e ngā tātari te tutuki i ngā paerewa i nui atu i tō rātou roa e hiahiatia ana.
Ko ngā taiwhanga tiwhikete tātari wai matua e rua ko te NSF tonu me te Water Quality Association (WQA). Kua whakamanahia katoatia ēnei e te ANSI me te Canadian Standards Council i Amerika Te Raki, ā, ka taea e rātou te whakahaere i ngā whakamātautau tiwhikete ANSI/NSF.
Engari i muri i ngā tau o te tautohetohe ā-roto, kua whakaaetia e mātou te reo ngāwari ake o te "whakamātautauhia ki ngā paerewa ANSI/NSF" kaua ki te whakamanahia ā-ture, me ētahi tikanga tino pakari: Tuatahi, ka whakahaerehia te whakamātautau e tētahi taiwhanga motuhake, ehara i te taiwhanga motuhake. Kaihanga tātari; Tuarua, kua whakamanahia te taiwhanga tonu e ANSI, e ētahi atu tari ā-motu, ā-kāwanatanga rānei, ki te whakahaere i ngā whakamātautau pakari ki ngā paerewa kua tohua; Tuatoru, ka whakaaturia e te kaihanga te taiwhanga whakamātautau, ōna hua me ngā tikanga; Tuawhā, he nui ngā wheako o te Kaihanga ki te hanga tātari kua whakamātauhia tōna haumaru, tōna pono, ā, kua whakaahuatia ponotia.
I whakawhāitihia anō e mātou ki ngā tātari kua whakamanahia, kua rite rānei ki te iti rawa e rua o ngā paerewa matua ANSI/NSF (Paerewa 42 me te Paerewa 53) (e kapi ana i te chlorine me ētahi atu poke "ataahua" me ngā konganuku taumaha pērā i te mata), tae atu ki ngā patupatu me ētahi atu matū waro). Ko te paerewa 401 hou e kapi ana i ngā "poke e puta ake ana," pērā i ngā rongoā, e kitea nuitia ana i roto i te wai i te United States, koia mātou i aro nui ai ki ngā tātari.
I tīmata mātou ki te rapu i ngā ipu wai rongonui e 10 ki te 11 kapu te kaha, me ngā ipu wai nui ake te kaha, he mea tino whai hua mō ngā whare e nui ana te wai e whakamahia ana. (He maha ngā kamupene e tuku ana i ngā ipu iti ake mō te hunga kāore e hiahia ana ki tētahi tauira rahi tonu.)
Kātahi ka whakaritea e mātou ngā taipitopito hoahoa (tae atu ki te momo kakau me te whakamarie), te ngāwari o te tāutanga me te whakakapinga o te tātari, te wāhi e nohoia ana e te pitī me te tohatoha i roto i te pouaka whakamātao, me te ōwehenga rōrahi o te puna whakakī o runga ki te puna "tātari" o raro. (Ko te teitei ake o te ōwehenga, ko te pai ake, nā te mea ka nui ake te wai tātari i ia wā ka whakamahia e koe te tap.)
I whakahaerehia e mātou ētahi whakamātautau i runga i ētahi tātari i te tau 2016, me te whakarite i ā mātou hua ki ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF me ngā kereme a te kaihanga. I roto i tana taiwhanga, i ine a John Holecek i te tere o te tango a ia tātari i te chlorine. Mō ā mātou kōwhiringa tuatahi e rua, i kirimana mātou mō te whakamātautau tango mata motuhake mā te whakamahi i ngā otinga poke mata he nui ake i ngā mea e hiahiatia ana e te NSF i roto i tana whakaaetanga tiwhikete.
Ko tā mātou whakaaro matua mai i tā mātou whakamātautau ko te tiwhikete ANSI/NSF, te tiwhikete ōrite rānei, he tohu pono mō te mahi a te tātari. Kāore tēnei i te miharo i te āhua pakari o ngā paerewa tiwhikete. Mai i taua wā, kua whakawhirinaki mātou ki te tiwhikete ANSI/NSF, ki te tiwhikete ōrite rānei, hei whakatau i te mahi a tētahi tātari.
Ko tā mātou whakamātautau e whai ake nei e arotahi ana ki te whakamahinga o te ao tūturu, tae atu ki ngā āhuatanga mahi me ngā ngoikoretanga ka kitea noa iho ina tīmata koe ki te whakamahi i ngā hua i roto i te wā.
Neke atu i te 30 ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF o tēnei tauira—he nui atu i tētahi atu tātari o tōna akomanga—ā, kua hangaia kia ono marama te roa i waenga i ngā whakakapinga. Engari, pērā i ngā tātari katoa, ka taea te ārai.
Kua whakamanahia ngā tātari Brita Elite (ko Longlast+ i mua) e ANSI/NSF hei kite i ngā poke neke atu i te 30 (PDF), tae atu ki te mata, te mercury, ngā kirihou moroiti, te asbestos, me ngā PFAS e rua: te waikawa perfluorooctanoic (PFOA) me te waikawa perfluorinated octane sulfonic (PFOS). Nā tēnei koia te tātari ipu tino whakamanahia kua whakamatautauria e mātou, ā, he mea hoki e taunakihia ana e mātou mō te hunga e hiahia ana ki te rangimarie o te hinengaro.
Kua whakamātauhia kia tangohia e ia ētahi atu paru noa. Kei roto i ēnei ko te chlorine (e tāpirihia ana ki te wai hei whakaiti i ngā huakita me ētahi atu mate urutā, ā, koinei te tino take o te "reka kino" i roto i te wai paipa); te carbon tetrachloride, he matū waro pūngāwerewere e kino ana ki te ate; ka kitea haeretia i roto i te wai paipa. I kitea ngā "pūhui hou", tae atu ki te bisphenol A (BPA), te DEET (he ārai pepeke noa) me te estrone (he momo hangai o te estrogen).
Ahakoa he huringa whakakapinga te nuinga o ngā tātari ipu ia 40 karani, ia rua marama rānei, ko te huringa whakakapinga a te Elite he 120 karani, ia ono marama rānei. Ko te tikanga, e rua noa ngā tātari Elite e whakamahia ana e koe i ia tau, kaua ki te ono, ka iti ake te para, ā, ka whakaitihia ngā utu whakakī mā te 50%.
Mō te tātari ipu, ka tere te mahi. I roto i ā mātou whakamātautau, e rima ki te whitu meneti noa iho te roa o te whakakī i te tātari Elite hou. Ko ngā tātari rite te rahi i whakamatautauria e mātou he roa ake te wā—he 10 meneti, neke atu rānei te nuinga.
Engari he whakatūpato kei reira. Pērā i te nuinga o ngā tātari ipu, ka tere te aukati i te Elite, ka taea ai te whakaroa i te tere tātari, te aukati rānei i te tātari, ko te tikanga me whakakapi pinepine. He maha, he maha ngā rangatira kua amuamu mō tēnei take, ā, i a mātou e whakamātautau ana, ka tīmata te whakaroa o te Elite i mua i te ekenga ki tōna kaha 120-karani. Mena he raruraru mōhiotia kei a koe me te paru i roto i tō wai puna (he tohu pea nō ngā paipa waikura), tera pea ka rite anō ō wheako.
Ā, kāore pea koe e hiahia ki te tiakitanga katoa a te hunga rangatira. Mena kei te mōhio koe he pai te kounga o tō wai tap (ka taea te whakatau i tēnei mā te whakamahi i tētahi taputapu whakamātautau kāinga), ka tūtohu mātou kia whakamahia te ipu turanga me te tātari o te Brita Standard. E rima noa iho ngā tiwhikete ANSI/NSF (PDF), tae atu ki te chlorine (engari ehara i te mata, ngā mea rauropi, ngā poke hou rānei), he iti ake ngā tiwhikete i te Elite. Engari he iti ake te utu, he iti ake te aukati i te tātari, ā, ka taea te whakapai ake i te reka o tō wai.
He ngāwari te hē i te tāutanga o te tātari Brita. I te tīmatanga kei te tū te tātari, ā, he pakari te āhua. Engari me nui ake te kaha ki te whakau i te tātari ki tōna tūranga. Ki te kore koe e pēhi kaha, ka turuturu pea te wai kāore i tātarihia i ngā taha o te tātari ina whakakīia te puna o runga, ko te tikanga kāore tō wai "tātarihia" e turuturu ana. Ko ētahi o ngā tātari i hokona e mātou mō te whakamātautau 2023 me whakanoho kia taea ai e te mokowā roa i tetahi taha o te tātari te neke ki runga i te ripa e rite ana i roto i ētahi ipu Brita. (Ko ētahi atu ipu, tae atu ki tā mātou Ipu Paerewa 10-Kapu Ia Rā tino pai, kāore he tapanga, ā, ka taea e koe te whakarite i te tātari ki tāu e pai ai.)
Ko te ipu wai Brita rongonui te mea nui mō te ipu wai tātari, ā, he māmā ake te whakamahi me te pupuri kia ma i te nuinga o ngā tauira Brita.
He mea noa te pounamu wai Brita 10-kapu o ia rā (ina koa te putanga me te SmartLight Replacement Indicator me te Elite Filter) ā, koinei pea te mea e whakaarohia ana e te nuinga o tātou ina whakaaro tātou ki ngā pounamu wai kua tātarihia. Koinei hoki tā mātou tino pai o ngā ipu Brita maha, nā te mea he māmā te wetewete hei horoi, ā, kāore he kokonga me ngā kapiti e kohia ai te paru. Mā te huri i te koromatua ka wātea te ringa kē atu ki te whakahaere i te taputapu ina tāpirihia he wai. Ka ine tika a SmartLight i te rere o te wai, ā, ka whakamōhio atu ki a koe āhea te wā hei whakawhiti i te tātari. Ā, ko te kakau āhua-C ngāwari te hoahoa tino whakamarie a Brita.
He motuhake a Standard Everyday ki a Amazon; ka hokona e Brita ngā pounamu wai Tahoe rite tonu ki Walmart, Target me ētahi atu kaihokohoko. Ko te rerekētanga matua i waenganui i ngā mea e rua ko te kakau āhua-D o te Tahoe, he uaua ake te pupuri.
Ahakoa e pānuitia ana te ipu wai Everyday hei tauira 10-kapu, e 11.5 kapu te rahi e taea ana te pupuri, he nui tēnei hei whakatutuki i ngā hiahia o ia rā o tētahi whānau iti. Ina kī, neke atu i te 7 pauna te taumaha, ka pēhi i ō ringaringa; e 4.5 pauna te taumaha o te ipu Brita Space Saver 6-kapu iti ina kī, engari kei roto ko te ipu Brita paerewa me te tātari tohatoha, nō reira me hoko motuhake e koe te Tātari Elite.