Carbon/KDF Pre AND Post Filters on Plumbing Systems

 - Jake - 10-19-2023

This should be the mark of a truly evolved civilization, right next to outlawing the harvest of large trees.  In another post I go over how hemp is a great option for manufactured wood, able to be grown en masse in using airwells on the unused plains, with lots of resin to make ply substitute.

The other major front is the water.  Right now we release so many chemicals into the water that it is a joke.  All you guys out there know what I mean, who have flushed chemicals down the drain.  Those chemicals have no way to be broken down completely.  Perhaps there are some companies that separate it for resale to the refineries, but for the most part, and for most of the world, that stuff goes right into the oceans and the water systems and underground water table.

A simple fix would be to install carbon post filters in the sewer systems.  Activated carbon is cheap and easy to handle.  City blocks could have a very large post-filter with KDF that can last for decades or more.  All that would need to happen would be for a large flatbed with crane to change the filter once a year or so, then it can be taken and treated properly.

I even thought a little further and imagined that maybe in the future, there could be sensors installed that sense waste with high levels of chemical pollutants that could actually open a valve to shunt that waste into a special containment tank that could be linked to special plumbing or just pumped into a special truck.

Of course then is the idea of having carbon pre-filters on homes too, that is just a requirement in this era when you have no idea who works at the water plant.  Plus, there are alot of biologically detrimental chemicals that can get into public water from PVC and the glue used to join pipes.  For any of you older folk listening, the sounds of insects in the suburbs where there is the heaviest use of public water that has come from long labyrinths of PVC has noticeably died down over the past few years, and that is because testosterone blocking phthalates and other chems have worked their way into the soil...species like cicadas who burrow deep below and feed on tree roots before emerging for a few months to mate probably are very susceptible, as well as other ground bugs like June bugs, which there are much less of these days.  Less bugs means less higher food chain animals, so on and so forth.  That eerie silence you hear is the sound of impending regurgitation.  A large carbon prefilter with KDF would be a good idea for each house, but would not be something that would necessarily need to be mandated, whereas post-filters would, evolutionary speaking.

It's one thing to retard your own, but heaven forbid that the endangered three-eyed snipe gecko is ever, ever harmed.