No, it is not a band aid, it is the gold standard for water filtration. And not all water issues stem from bad governance. Sometimes there is just unwanted minerals in the water for natural reasons.

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dylan604 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Like all of those yummy chemicals introduced to your well water after your neighbors allowed gas wells to be drilled on their property.

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mitthrowaway2 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The gold standard for air filtration might be a military grade gas mask or a compressed oxygen tank, but if everyone had to wear those to breathe the air outside, I'd consider it a band aid solution.

	▲	NewJazz 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How is that a reasonable comparison? You don't have to carry the RO filter on your back. You think about it maybe a couple times a year when you replace the filter. Plenty of people use water filters every day. If you told them that was like wearing a gas mask whenever you go outside, they'd look at you funny.

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Tadpole9181 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until you remember that now nobody is going to be able to drink water from restaurants or their workplace or the tap at the park. And that you can't filter the vegetables you eat that have been watered with contaminated water.

	▲	giantg2 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Keep in mind, these restrictions have nothing to do with the environmental pollution but only the water treatment. So those veggies would still be contaminated with or without the regulation. If we moved to a paradigm of point of use purification, then the park, work, restaurant, etc would all have filters too.

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BoredPositron 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can't follow why would you opt for filtration in individual homes?

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dylan604 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because I have no say in the plumbing used to get the water from the source to my home. Some of that infrastructure is older than I am. Whole home RO systems would still possibly flow through plumbing I wouldn't be happy with. Undersink RO systems at the primary place providing water that I ingest seems like the best place for me knowing the details about the plumbing from this new source.

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saulpw 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just use your own well! Sheesh.

	▲	dylan604 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And drink the chenicals that have leeched in from all of the fracking going on? Not without me RO filter.

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BoredPositron 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's also a bad governance problem.

	▲	dylan604 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And? You keep saying this like it's an answer to a question, but it's just not a useful one. Do you go through all of life deciding that you're going to do nothing because it's a bad governance problem? Do you honestly never make changes to things you can control just because it technically should be someone else's problem? Personally, I don't have time for that. If I can make improvements for things as a band-aid fix to something that will never get fixed in any other fashion, I do it. I don't have time for BS and lazy "but it's not my problem" type of people, and you're quickly moving into that column

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giantg2 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To eliminate the distribution network risks.

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BoredPositron 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I still don't understand why you would opt for individual home filter systems. Doesn't make sense if you are not off the grid.