Don't buy a gravity flow or KDF water filter.wmv 

"There's too many people to tell, and they don't have time." "No problem, I'll take care of it for ya!" *Classic!* *You sir are a boss!*

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Here's my take on this as a 22-year water chemist and water quality lab director, now retired. Depending on the testing method you used to determine that the KDF was not removing the chlorine, I would suggest that what you were getting was a "false positive." And the culprit causing the false positive would be the ammonia that is combined with chlorine to form chloramine. In short, a laboratory titration would most likely confirm that the chlorine was, indeed, removed or reduced to undetectable levels. [Salespeople speak of "removing" this or that contaminant; water chemists refer to "reducing" said contaminants.] BUT the ammonia sneaks past. And it only takes a trace amount of ammonia to register a healthy positive on most non-laboratory chlorine testing protocols. Also, I would never use carbon, either granular (GAC) or carbon block, for a shower filter -- unless you are into cold showers. Running hot water through a carbon filter is a good way to purge the carbon of whatever contaminants it has adsorbed/absorbed from a prior flow-through. IOW, that's not the right filter media for hot showers. KDF is a good water filter media, but you're right, you need to know what your tap water provider is using as the disinfectant; chlorine or chloramine. In sum: the KDF filters are very good at removing chlorine from hot water, making them ideal for shower filters. What is left to determine is how much ammonia is slipping past the KDF, causing the no-doubt false positive chlorine test result, and what are the overall human health considerations about showering in water that is bearing a trace amount of ammonia. Hope that helps.

Thank you so much for this video! What a blessing. I just bought a shower filter and sink filter last night for dishes and stuff. I wish I had seen this one first though. I need to call the water company now! Man are they sneaky!

that spice rack is awesome

thank you for making this video Sr. I have been doing some research on what water system to get and only your video mentions this problem, thank you again.

Thanx for your unbiased information. Very Helpful and to the point .

Excellent advice. Thanks for taking the time to do this video.

Dear Water Watchman, Because of your effort and willingness to share this, you've created the awareness necessary for people to heal, prevent illness, extend and quite literally save lives. Likewise, you've spared families and friends from the kind of grief that some never fully return from. I hope you realize this and remember the gift you place in other people's hands when you share your knowledge and experience with them.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge to protect us.

You're a God-send... Thank you for your candid and informative review. It's so helpful.

Thank you very much for taking the time and make this video!

thanks for taking the time to sharing this with us.

Now thats a good video, thank you for doing such a great service for us all! All they have to do is put it in the advertisements and packaging.

Thanx so much for informing the public, I definitly learned something from U!!

Thanks for sharing this, sir! Bless you.

"their job to get good clean water to the house but it's our job to clean it once it's here" - doesn't make sense. If it's good clean water when it gets to the house, why would it need to be cleaned by us?

Thank you, your info was extremely helpful to my family!

Thank you for saving lives! Again our responsibility for knowing what companies put in our food and drinks!

Wow thank you so much!! I was looking around for shower filters and something told me I better do so research on RU-vid and I came across your video. I had no idea about all that you described so thank you for sharing!!

Excellent way to explain the differences. Thank you very much.

Thank you for the information, it has prompted me to look at my own local water treatment facility and how they treat their water. Thank you!

Thank you for providing us with this important information.

we the people best statement ever made thank you so much for putting up this video. If not for this man we would have never found out. Wish they would put his video on the news 3 times a week for a year. when people find out about what is being done to us then we can protect are self and are family that we love so much.

Thank you Sir for this important information. Blessings.

Very informative...thank you for setting me straight!! Nice video!!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Pretty helpful...

This should go viral! Great presentation to get people looking at the covert chlorine to chloramine switch and on to its connection (cause) to recent lead poisoning of the water supply in Flint and other cities, which is really happening nationwide. Then if you go there, you'll be heading down the Fluoride rabbit hole. May be a good time to get into the water filter business, we need better products.

Thanks for the video. I hate dishonest and misleading companies!

Very Good Advice. Thank you.

The company is thinking with their wallet instead of assurance health and safety for the client. The company should use this video to address future implementation for this product to keep customers happy with the product. Thank you for sharing - very useful information.

Thank you for the informative video, I just wanted to mention doing some extra research on reverse osmosis. what happens is a decalcification of the water which then passes through your body, because of the decalcification the liver has to work twice as hard to make it usable. Please be careful when drinking reverse osmosis. I am a 3rd year medical student if that makes any difference in my statement. Best wishes

thank you for making this video and educating us.

Thank you for taking the time to post your information! I found it very helpful in clearing up the "gobblygook" that is on all these sites for water filtration.

Thanks for sharing knowledge! I really appreciate.

Thank you for this video. This is a very education video!

Thank you for sharing God bless you and your family

Good on you for producing this video, most informative & thank you..:)

Great video! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for all of the information.

thanks for making this video!

Excellent info! Thanks

Thank you for sharing your education, of course the real reason the company doesn't tell you is that it would affect sales....

😩There is so much info to know & figure out & as soon as I think I’ve got it figured out there is something else sneaking through! 😩

Thanks very much. Big help!

I guess more research is in store for me! Thanks for the video!

thank you very much. i will check .

Thank you for making this important video! It's very good, but I'm confused about something. It seems to talk about gravity flow filters for your kitchen and shower filters interchangeably. Those are two drastically different systems. For instance a small, screw-on shower filter with a little KDF vs a counter-top Berkey gravity flow unit in the kitchen with huge, multi-purpose filters. I can believe that the shower filter didn't do the job, but have you tested the Berkey? Also, it sounds as if you're saying no gravity flow system does what it claims to. Am I understanding correctly? RO is not an option for me, so do you know of a gravity flow kitchen water filter that does address monochloramines? Really appreciate your help!

Thanks-good job!

Thank you! very helpful. What do you recommend?

Why doesn't KDF remove NH2Cl? Shouldn't NH2Cl become NH3 and HClO in water and shouldn't HClO should oxidize the Zn in KDF55 and thus get removed? Some one help me out...

Thank you, Thermax. This is quite good information. It should help anyone who wants to make the best informed and smartest purchase in their filter.

I just read below that you use a RO system and add minerals back in. Which one do you use? RO gets rid of chloramines?

Great Info here, Thanks for the vid.

Vitamin C filters or powder is what's successfully used to neutralise 99% of chlorine and chloramine 👍🏼 I've been reading about gravity water filters lately and the newest one propur says on its independent lab test that it filters out (I think it was 98-99%) of chloramine and chlorine. The Berkey filters may be just as affective too.

thank you for making this video!!!

Thank you for this vid! I will post this on my page!

I hate how expensive and difficult it is to filter water in a house, apartment or trailer, especially apartment. thats a great tip to look at the water quality analysis for your area. i will check for monocloramine

Thanks so much for sharing, I just got a 5 stage filter, one stage I believe is KDF, I have to go and see now. Can you tell us how you or the other man tested for chlorine or the monocholine? It would be great to know how to test that? Also have you found any filters that you feel live up to what they need to do? I have to disagree with you letting the water companies off the hook though. They make plenty of money and charge us a lot of money for it. They certainly could put something on the bill we receive each month, very simple. They also have a moral obligation to inform us about these things, at least that is my feeling about that whole situation. I am glad that you took it upon yourself to take action. Thank you so much. I would love a response if you have time, and would love to see a demonstration video, or at least the basic items we need to do the test with. Thanks.

Good video thanks for going to the trouble....I did not know this.

Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for the info!

Very helpful. Thanks

Thank you for this very informative video. I just purchased a shower head filter and now I need to check my city water to see what the hell they put in our water.

Thank you!!

That spice rack is a smart use of space. The heat of the oven may be bad for it, but I love it overall!

witch filter will you recommend to remove both chemicals thank`s really helpful video.

What RO system do you recommend?

so OTO (Orthotolidine) react to monochloramine too? ceramic filters filter monochloramine?

Sunriderjill I don't know if the Berkey will remove monochloramines, their web site will list it if it does. thanks

Good video. Thanks!

Great video to warn everyone.

Cuzn (US Company) owns 2 different filters for showers, one for chlorine and another one for chloramine. I've only used the former at home and it works pretty good (we don't have chloramines in Barcelona -Spain-). Just wanted to let you know that there's a gravity filter for chloramines, so you may try it and do some additional tests. Thanks for your video! Cheers,

Hi, Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Can you please help me to know which bath filter is suitable for use? How effective the Aquasana bath filter for using as a bath filter? Which KDF filter is good? Thanks

Yeah, bless you sir.

Thank You good Sir.

Thank you. Excelent vídeo

In thinking of using a sonaki universal in line filter attached to an acquasana AQ 4100... I believe this will work!! I might need to buy extra fitings (extensions) to make this prploperly work...I think this will work double duty and be effective. Worth a shot

What did you end up using for your shower filter that actually takes out chloramine?

Thank you so much.

Is it the Imperial water purification system shower filter or Camelot made in the U S A you are talking about. I will contact the water board and find out about the mono chloramine

wow thank you for the info really appreciated

Thank you! Good info.

Thanks for your video.

very helpful vid, thanks much

Thank you! So much

Which high grade gravity filters remove monochloramines?

I've been using a Tap Master Jr. in my kitchen. The replacement filter I just received (from Amazon) has the black carbon section, which should be at the top, mixed in considerably with the white beads, which is usually the separate, bottom half. I'm wondering if I should send it back. The one I am replacing has the two sections clearly separate.

Thank you!!!!!

Thank u ou...good video. Have you tested your water from RO filter? I just got a water distiller. RO water is filthy also. Making DIY distiller is easy and you need to just steam water away and look into the pot after water is evaporated. YOU WILL SEE SEDAMENTS.

So what can you use for your shower?

Hi! I just researched it and my water source does use chloramines. Have you tested water from the berkey to see if it does not remove chloramines? Also, did you test water with the berkey with the arsenic and flouride filters?

Thanks : ) How do I test the water though?

Coconut charcoal works much better with gravity and no water pressure. The fliters he is talking about would work for a shower but you would be replacing it far too often to be cost effective. Coconut charcoal in small amounts will only do a small amount just as anything else. It will only absorb so much. So an effective shower filter would have to be rather large, or you would be replacing it too often. There are several systems that will work, like reverse osmosis or UV but they are costy and still require maintenance and possible filter changes and electricity. He is putting out good useful information about the chemical process. I imagine chloramine will become more widely used not less. Good on Ya !

Good video, to the poster....you mention your filtering your drinking water with RO, what do you use with your RO water for adding back the minerals RO strip?

What a fine guy!

Thank you!

Hey thanks a lot! Great info!