As it is now hot season and my fear of dehydration has me consuming 6 liters of water a day, I’ve noticed the water level in my cannery running low much quicker than usual. Duh, I know, but wouldn’t be so duh if I wasn’t making up for the gulping by pulling an extra bucket for my water filter. Ahh, there it is – my filter! I decided to investigate why it was going so slow.
Below is a photo of the ceramic candles that sit inside the filter. The water must pass through them to get to bottom “Drink me!” section. The candle on the right is one I wiped down with a rag. The candle on the left is how both looked when I first took them out of the filter.
You can scratch that layer of gook right off with your fingernail EWW!
Gross sauce. I mean, I’m still going to drink unfiltered water when traveling around, but this is pretty decent motivation to keep filtering it in site.
5 April, 2011 at 22:33
This is gross. That’s why you should clean it monthly as stated in the PC medical handbook. Miss you homie :) Peace and love
8 April, 2011 at 11:01
I would be horribly grossed out if the water in my apartment didn’t turn my water candles a healthy orange-brown after about a week. :) All the colors in the water are just vitamins, right?!