The problem with the tap water is that 1) the public water systems operate at much lower pressure than in the US, meaning it is easier for contaminants to infiltrate pipes 2) outside the big cities water is only run in the pipes at certain times, giving bacteria a chance to grow during other times 3) public water generally is sent to a cistern or roof tank for temporary storage and those may not always get regular cleaning. I spent a bus ride next to a Zacatecas city water engineer and as I understand it the water should be safe to drink when it leaves the central pump station, but the infrastructure between there and your house may introduce problems particularly if there has been construction or pipe damage. It may test good one day, then get harmful infiltration another. More recently developed areas with newer pipes in cities with continuous water service will have relatively reliable tap water. That said, I always use a garrafón for drinking water but never stress about brushing my teeth with tap water. The whole “drinking the water” thing is way overblown. A more important and overlooked health measure is to always soak fresh produce in Microdyn solution (which we use with tap water).
Jerry, Your casa is beautiful, what's on you mind is always interesting, the walls in your house are of pretty colors and their surfaces are hard therefore imparting an echo to the electromagnetic recording of the thoughts which you so artfully convey to us, your subscribers. This is merely an observation of what's going on along the shoreline of the peaceful, placid waters of Lake Chapala. Thanking you for your stories, I remain, your faithful subscriber , Bill Allbright
Thank you for the kind words, Bill. Yes, I'm aware of the echo. I've tried piling up all of the couch cushions around the mic. It helps, but it’s a pain. Outside is usually better. Hope it’s not too distracting. :)
I am always concerned about water, so I love this testing ... my well water, * Oregon* was tested by the local water company as 100 pure, they said it was some of the best water they had tested in years! However, when I am in Mexico, I am a little less confident, although where we stay the water is used for cooking and drinking by all the family there... I always boil it first, but I do use it for coffee and tea as well as cooking the rice and beans.. never got sick in all the years I have been going there, but just a few miles away at my other family's home they do NOT drink or use the water for cooking at all... They shower in it and brush teeth... but occasionally get sick. so there is that. Thanks for the testing kit ideas.. Wonderful video as always!
Your video encouraged my husband to buy a tester. He ran around our house in Phoenix testing every faucet. He can't wait to bring this gadget to Ajijic and test our water!
I worked in Mexico City for several months many years ago. I used a Life Straw Family gravity flow water filter to filter the tap water. I never got sick from it. I brought two more of those filters to my friends in Mexico. Saved them a lot of money from buying drinking water.
Thank you JC for posting! As a licensed Environmental Engineer you bring common sense to a very important issue. I did the same tests when I moved to Sayulita. I was very pleased to see that our local garrafón water supply, Fuentes, tested pure. I have also visited their bottling plant to see how they purify their water. Many people think they can use their fridge filter and drink the water. These granular activated carbon filters are good for filtering out organic compounds and particulates but do not adequately treat for dissolved solids. Our local water company uses a deep well but the water is very high in TDS. Not good for drinking or making ice cubes. I also buy ice cubes from the same local drinking water company. If you are using a home water filter system for drinking and making ice make sure it removes dissolved solids and organics. You can rig your refrigerator to use garrafón water. Also make sure your pets are drinking good pure water! Don’t listen to the “live water” proponents. Get your minerals from supplements and food.
Thank you Charles. Nice to get a verification of my common sense from an Environmental Engineer. Interesting you mention the “live water” RO question. I'll be testing a counter top RO purifier soon. :)
@@JCTravelStories I also use a pool chlorine tester to periodically add the right amount of chlorine (0.5 to 1 ppm) to our cistern to kill bacteria. It makes us feel more comfortable using the shower. I’d like to eventually get a whole house treatment system (prefilter, activated carbon and RO).
Jerry, another interesting deice. I too, await your testing of the R.V. water tank. That and see how much rent you collect from the pesky rodent squatters, too. Cheers, Mate.
In the 1960s, I traveled with my parents to Monterey. It was so hot, we got a hotel and hunkered in the AC for 1 night. I remember my dad saying "Coca Cola grande, no ice" to the bell hop. The next day we headed home because it was 110 degrees 😂 I still don't know why we took that trip!
I think when folks say, "Don't drink the water", they are referring to the tap water. According to your test, the tap water is just fine to drink at your house. But to say it is just fine to drink throughout Mexico is incorrect. Hence, you have this Kactoily tester to really find out.
Hello amigo. That's the first thing people tell me when i tell them I'm going to Mexico: don't drink the water.... I don't drink tap water here in the US. I also don't drink it in Mexico... Epura is my favorite bottled water. It has an amazing taste. I'm not surprised it scored 100%.👍👍
BUT!!! From what I understand, people are full of plastic! The bottled water should be concerning. Sorry for commenting so much. This was very interesting! Thank you
Please do not apologies for commenting so much! Comments are one of the things that keep me doing this. Plastics …. A reverse osmosis purifier will not let micro plastics pass. I'm testing one soon. :)
@@JCTravelStories when I looked at their site, it says one of the things that test is micro plastics, so maybe you can get that reading right now on the bottled water
It tests for tds …. Total dissolved solids. I don't think it tests specifically for microplastics or would distinguish between them and other dissolved solids. And by the way …. They aren't dissolved … they're suspended.
I think the first brain sample was contaminated by wind blowing dust or maybe even organic material. I collected rainwater again and it tested at 88% pure. drinkable.
Bout a month ago they came cleaning the water dispenser with the garrafones on tap, and in the cover immediately below the garrafón they found mildew growing the moral of the story the garrafón water may be pure but if you don't clean the dispenser you are getting black mold in the water, also the ice machines a the junk food chain also grow black mold, so beware
Good advice. If you watch Mexicans who receive a cervasa or refresco in a bottle they will wipe the top with a napkin. Why? Many restaurants use an ice filled tub of water to chill bottled drinks. A potential pool of bacteria. We don't use a dispenser for our garafon.
From the news: "In 2020, Mexico's government announced a plan to phase out glyphosate, the active ingredient in R0undup, by March 31, 2024. " The Biden administration is bullying Mexico into not banning R0undup. So worry more about the US pesticides. Mexicans don't use R0undup as much as people in the US.
I can not test for PFAS. I had to google it. This came up ….””a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University tested 101 bottled water products and found that most didn't have PFAS.Jun 24, 2023””. Perhaps you heard wrong.
A question I have regarding the municipal (tap) water sample that tests 'ok' at 87%. I'm wondering if that number was largely achieved by hyperchlorination and not much else. Knowing all the components of the municipal water test would shed some light on how the lake water is being treated at the source. Especially the numerical value of chlorides and solids (tds). A sense of the level of sophistication in effect at the municipal water treatment facility could be gleaned from numbers like that.
I don't really know how much chlorine is added to our city water, but I doubt it’s HYPERclorinated. I can smell chlorine in the water when I go to the USA. I don't smell it here in Ajijic, Mexico. BTW the lake is not our source of city water. We have deep wells.
It’s not in Mexico with me. I use it in the RV when traveling like to Quartzite. I don't use it at the AZ ranch …. We have great well water there. However, because I enjoy it in the RV, I have gotten a counter top model RO filter for the house here in Mexico. I'll be testing it soon. :)
That's a good question. It wasn't answered in any of the literature, up there is no replaceable part except the batteries. I'm sure it will last a long time …. And probably longer than my interest in using it after I've tested all the water in my life.
We all respect your right to be skeptical. Also, you’re right to be wrong. How do you explain numerical results in 6 different parameters in ranges from minus 100 to plus 2000 if it simply measure only the electrical current. Perhaps a computerized random number generator that gives different results each time??? I didn't spend a lot of time with the boring numbers, but they make sense. Also, my research indicated that the science is used in many different industries. Surely, some geek would have reported the fraud by now. Seems more likely it just does what it claims. :)
I'm confused because I thought earlier in the video you mentioned that you would test some of your neighbor's purified drinking water from their own house filtration. You didn't seem to have taken that step and you didn't mention whether or not you had a filtration system on your own house or that was water just coming from the city supply. Thanks
You mis understood. I said that I tested my neighbors water in the previous video when using the colored strips. I do not have an ultraviolet purification system in my house. Don't trust them.
do you have a brita or similar? I have a zero water, it has a huge filter and lasts a long time, unless you have murky water, and it has that tester that comes with it! Also I just cant stand bleach water, that we have here in Washington state, I used to live in Red Bluff, CA and it had the best tasting well water, however it probably wasn't super for you. Oh well...so far so good.
There is a huge difference between a Brita filter and the Zero water filter … 1 micron Brita vs O.0001 for the Zero. Translation …. Zero is 1000 times better than Brita. Maybe that's why this was the first thing I got when I googled Brita “”Brita is currently facing a class-action lawsuit claiming that its advertising has misled consumers and its standard filters do not “remove or reduce to below lab detection limits common contaminants from drinking water.” Brita claims that their highest-end filters remove up to 99% of lead and eliminate most ...Sep 22, 2023””
Do you remember the arsenic reading from previous tests? Apple juice contains arsenic because companies let seeds in the mix. So I wanted to know which is worse. Peñafiel sodas had arsenic. La Paz, Baja California Sur water contains arsenic -many expats there-, how about where you live.
Some research reports detectable levels of arsenic in 62% of local tap water tests. How much …. “Detectable” as is (according to you) the level in apple juice. Danger? I don't know. I haven't seen any dead Mexicans along the road.
@@JCTravelStories Hey amigo. My curiosity took me to the possibility of a bio research co. coming up with a urine tester for ANY FORM OF CANCER. You would dip it in a glass of your urine and it would come up with two results: one, would be no cancer detected. The other, obviously, would be "a form of cancer has been detected, please visit an oncologist". If you don't dream it, you won't realize it. You and Lynn take care now.
I really wanted one and used your link provided. Got to the check out and my card was refused!. Never had my card refused before anywhere. Guess I can't get one. 😒
I think they would fall into the category of tds … total dissolved solids. I'll soon be testing a countertop reverse osmosis purifier …. I'm reading that the microplastics I our water are sized 10 to 20 microns. They can't get through an RO filter.
Mr. JC, it looks like you have trouble with your left shoulder. Hope it's nothing serious, Ms. Lynn depends on you. What's going on with that Mexican rain? I sure do like the way you showed the different tests, but a lot of the stuff is nothing but to scare people. Just think about all the garbage they dump in the oceans and people eat all that seafood out of them. We used to have a in ground pool for 30 years, but had it filled in when we decided it would be too much to take care of at our age. But I tested the drinking water in Georgia and compared it with our swimming pool water, just out of curiosity, and our drinking water was almost deep orange from the chlorine in it. You know Mr. JC, I think the scientists and environmentalists are out to drive people crazy. They did a good job with the pandemic, which was partly motivated by politics. Good video, but COD sounds bad, human waste, is scary.
Chlorine … of course there is any in the bottled water we drink at home in Mexico …. Or Fluoride. When we go to the USA I can smell it in the water. Not at the ranch … it’s well water. :)
I have not found any believable info about arsenic. One study said 62% of local tap water had measurable levels. Is measurable dangerous? Don't know. Some say so does apple juice. Let me know if you know anything about this.
I don't understand why Mexico can't provide clean tap water. The US and its territories can, Canada can, Australia, New Zealand, nearly all of Europe (old Soviet satellites excluded) can. If you can drink from the tap in Poland or Costa Rica, why can't Mexico do it?
Please read the comment just before yours about a lady needing to boil her water in the USA. Mexico has clean potable water, but delivery system is old. Cities don't pump pressure 24/7 …. So properties have personal reservoirs under ground and on the roof ( places for bacteria to grow) and their own pressure pump or gravity flow. When the city is not pumping the leak that sprays under pressure sucks dirt as the water drains from higher homes to lower homes. That's why Mexico has delivers dirty water and personal storage tanks are breeding grounds for things you don't want to drink. Look at a picture of any Mexican city … you see black tanks on the roof.
not surprise about lake chapa, what make me feel bad was the rain water, i have always tought it was safe to drink if you would catch before hitting the ground or any surface, a guess i was wrong..
I ordered that water test that you made a video about but you did not mention that it would be coming from China. It is taking forever to get and would never would have ordered it if I knew how long it would take to receive it. YOU NEED TO TELL US WHERE THESE THINGS ARE BEING SHIPPED FROM. I like your videos but am not happy with this BS.
I'm sorry you are having to wait. I order many things from China here in Mexico. Often it takes 3 days to go from China to Mexico City and then a couple more weeks for the last 300 km. China isn't slow. It’s Mexico. Did you get a tracking number? Where is the hang up?
The problem with the tap water is that 1) the public water systems operate at much lower pressure than in the US, meaning it is easier for contaminants to infiltrate pipes 2) outside the big cities water is only run in the pipes at certain times, giving bacteria a chance to grow during other times 3) public water generally is sent to a cistern or roof tank for temporary storage and those may not always get regular cleaning. I spent a bus ride next to a Zacatecas city water engineer and as I understand it the water should be safe to drink when it leaves the central pump station, but the infrastructure between there and your house may introduce problems particularly if there has been construction or pipe damage. It may test good one day, then get harmful infiltration another. More recently developed areas with newer pipes in cities with continuous water service will have relatively reliable tap water. That said, I always use a garrafón for drinking water but never stress about brushing my teeth with tap water. The whole “drinking the water” thing is way overblown. A more important and overlooked health measure is to always soak fresh produce in Microdyn solution (which we use with tap water).
Good plan. Good advise. :)
Thank you Jerry, we can always count on a no nonsense report from you. Great video Amigo.
Thanks Wendy! :)
...water is more important than money or love or any food...
100% 🦵❗
That's why billionaires in the US are buying up land and water rights.
Jerry, Your casa is beautiful, what's on you mind is always interesting, the walls in your house are
of pretty colors and their surfaces are hard therefore imparting an echo to the electromagnetic recording
of the thoughts which you so artfully convey to us, your subscribers. This is merely an observation of
what's going on along the shoreline of the peaceful, placid waters of Lake Chapala. Thanking you for
your stories, I remain, your faithful subscriber , Bill Allbright
Thank you for the kind words, Bill. Yes, I'm aware of the echo. I've tried piling up all of the couch cushions around the mic. It helps, but it’s a pain. Outside is usually better. Hope it’s not too distracting. :)
@@JCTravelStories It's fine. I can understand. It would get old building couch pillow forts every day. I really like your videos.
I am always concerned about water, so I love this testing ... my well water, * Oregon* was tested by the local water company as 100 pure, they said it was some of the best water they had tested in years! However, when I am in Mexico, I am a little less confident, although where we stay the water is used for cooking and drinking by all the family there... I always boil it first, but I do use it for coffee and tea as well as cooking the rice and beans.. never got sick in all the years I have been going there, but just a few miles away at my other family's home they do NOT drink or use the water for cooking at all... They shower in it and brush teeth... but occasionally get sick. so there is that. Thanks for the testing kit ideas.. Wonderful video as always!
What a cool little device! Thanks for being so thoughtful!
you read my mind, I was going to test water in my house. Thank you.
Your video encouraged my husband to buy a tester. He ran around our house in Phoenix testing every faucet. He can't wait to bring this gadget to Ajijic and test our water!
Hope your water tests as good as mine. :)
Tap water in Phoenix tested at 81% but RO was 99%. I'll let you know the Ajijic numbers in a few weeks.
Great stuff right here!
That was a fantastic video. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Really great topic. Very informative.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. It was very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I worked in Mexico City for several months many years ago. I used a Life Straw Family gravity flow water filter to filter the tap water. I never got sick from it. I brought two more of those filters to my friends in Mexico. Saved them a lot of money from buying drinking water.
Gracias Amigo Jerry, god bless you friend.
Thanks! :)
Had to get one of those Jerry, for my north central Florida well test, THANKS
You're welcome. :)
muy interesante! gracias y saludos
Por nada. :)
Thank you JC for posting! As a licensed Environmental Engineer you bring common sense to a very important issue. I did the same tests when I moved to Sayulita. I was very pleased to see that our local garrafón water supply, Fuentes, tested pure. I have also visited their bottling plant to see how they purify their water. Many people think they can use their fridge filter and drink the water. These granular activated carbon filters are good for filtering out organic compounds and particulates but do not adequately treat for dissolved solids. Our local water company uses a deep well but the water is very high in TDS. Not good for drinking or making ice cubes. I also buy ice cubes from the same local drinking water company. If you are using a home water filter system for drinking and making ice make sure it removes dissolved solids and organics. You can rig your refrigerator to use garrafón water. Also make sure your pets are drinking good pure water! Don’t listen to the “live water” proponents. Get your minerals from supplements and food.
Thank you Charles. Nice to get a verification of my common sense from an Environmental Engineer. Interesting you mention the “live water” RO question. I'll be testing a counter top RO purifier soon. :)
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@@JCTravelStories I also use a pool chlorine tester to periodically add the right amount of chlorine (0.5 to 1 ppm) to our cistern to kill bacteria. It makes us feel more comfortable using the shower. I’d like to eventually get a whole house treatment system (prefilter, activated carbon and RO).
HELLO👋JC
Test the Drunking Water 💧
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Great video again, Jerry . This is great topic. Thanks agent.
Very informative video, Jerry, and the comments from you and your viewers add additional details. Thanks.
I ordered one thank you
Hope you like it! :
Thanks JC. ////for that price I don't know how anyone can not order one. Mine''s on the way.
👍 Be sure to calibrate it with verified distilled water.
@@JCTravelStories Thanks JC. I have plenty of that. I just recieved the device today, and am looking forward to playing with it.
Interesting topic, and demonstration today. Thanks for posting it. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
My water tastes like tequila. It tested positive for lime and salt. 😉
Keep,testing until you get it right! :)
Hey Jerry, I’m a red light/green light kid of guy too. Many Thanks, your the bees knees
Bees knees … WOW! High praise indeed. Thanks. :)
Jerry, another interesting deice. I too, await your testing of the R.V. water tank.
That and see how much rent you collect from the pesky rodent squatters, too. Cheers, Mate.
Rent is not what I'll be collecting from rat squatters. :)
@@JCTravelStories I can envision a future episode of "Rodent Squatter Evictions'....
In the 1960s, I traveled with my parents to Monterey. It was so hot, we got a hotel and hunkered in the AC for 1 night. I remember my dad saying "Coca Cola grande, no ice" to the bell hop. The next day we headed home because it was 110 degrees 😂 I still don't know why we took that trip!
To see if the bell hop understood Spanglish?
😂👍
I think when folks say, "Don't drink the water", they are referring to the tap water. According to your test, the tap water is just fine to drink at your house. But to say it is just fine to drink throughout Mexico is incorrect. Hence, you have this Kactoily tester to really find out.
Exactly. :)
Hello amigo. That's the first thing people tell me when i tell them I'm going to Mexico: don't drink the water.... I don't drink tap water here in the US. I also don't drink it in Mexico... Epura is my favorite bottled water. It has an amazing taste. I'm not surprised it scored 100%.👍👍
Great video. I am renting and have a reverse osmosis system - curious if it would pass
If your RO system is working properly …. You're safe!
Interesting
This topic makes my head spin! What a shame, The most precious thing to humans is hard to come by!
So true. :)
BUT!!! From what I understand, people are full of plastic! The bottled water should be concerning. Sorry for commenting so much. This was very interesting! Thank you
Please do not apologies for commenting so much! Comments are one of the things that keep me doing this. Plastics …. A reverse osmosis purifier will not let micro plastics pass. I'm testing one soon. :)
@@JCTravelStories when I looked at their site, it says one of the things that test is micro plastics, so maybe you can get that reading right now on the bottled water
It tests for tds …. Total dissolved solids. I don't think it tests specifically for microplastics or would distinguish between them and other dissolved solids. And by the way …. They aren't dissolved … they're suspended.
Just ordered Jerry, I found it BIZARRE the reading you got from the rain, PLEASE do that test again & report back !
Me too. I'll do it again. :)
@@JCTravelStories 🥰
I think the first brain sample was contaminated by wind blowing dust or maybe even organic material. I collected rainwater again and it tested at 88% pure. drinkable.
Bout a month ago they came cleaning the water dispenser with the garrafones on tap, and in the cover immediately below the garrafón they found mildew growing the moral of the story the garrafón water may be pure but if you don't clean the dispenser you are getting black mold in the water, also the ice machines a the junk food chain also grow black mold, so beware
Good advice. If you watch Mexicans who receive a cervasa or refresco in a bottle they will wipe the top with a napkin. Why? Many restaurants use an ice filled tub of water to chill bottled drinks. A potential pool of bacteria. We don't use a dispenser for our garafon.
Good morning, Carrie. That was awesome. Tell Lynn, we said hi.
Would you test the boiling water?
Good idea to test some boiled water, Robert. BTW …. ITS Jerry.
My biggest concern is pesticides. I'm not sure of what water filtration is necessary to remove them.
Reverse Osmosis. I'm testing a counter top model soon. :)
From the news: "In 2020, Mexico's government announced a plan to phase out glyphosate, the active ingredient in R0undup, by March 31, 2024. " The Biden administration is bullying Mexico into not banning R0undup. So worry more about the US pesticides. Mexicans don't use R0undup as much as people in the US.
@@JCTravelStories oh good - thanks!
Can you test for PFAS? I hear there’s no place on earth where it doesn’t exist but I wonder about the levels. Thanks for sharing the results!
I can not test for PFAS. I had to google it. This came up ….””a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University tested 101 bottled water products and found that most didn't have PFAS.Jun 24, 2023””. Perhaps you heard wrong.
Great video Jerry! Can you share the name of the company you get your garrafones from?
Aga 331-438-3782
@@JCTravelStories Thanks!
wish you would have given the TDS score for each.
A question I have regarding the municipal (tap) water sample that tests 'ok' at 87%. I'm wondering if that number was largely achieved by hyperchlorination and not much else. Knowing all the components of the municipal water test would shed some light on how the lake water is being treated at the source. Especially the numerical value of chlorides and solids (tds). A sense of the level of sophistication in effect at the municipal water treatment facility could be gleaned from numbers like that.
I don't really know how much chlorine is added to our city water, but I doubt it’s HYPERclorinated. I can smell chlorine in the water when I go to the USA. I don't smell it here in Ajijic, Mexico. BTW the lake is not our source of city water. We have deep wells.
Buy distilled water!
It’s difficult to find in Mexico except for rather pricey laboratory grade at Farmacia’s.
You can just boil it thats what we have to do the majority of the time in my state in the US.....or pay a high water bill plus buy bottled.
Do you use the RO system you reviewed?
It’s not in Mexico with me. I use it in the RV when traveling like to Quartzite. I don't use it at the AZ ranch …. We have great well water there. However, because I enjoy it in the RV, I have gotten a counter top model RO filter for the house here in Mexico. I'll be testing it soon. :)
Bring it to Quartzsite!!!
Ok.
You Blinded with SCIENCE, Science.
You seem to have something to say. I'm not sure what it is. :)
Do you ever have to replace the testing cartridge or can you use it indefinitely?
RTFM !!!
That's a good question. It wasn't answered in any of the literature, up there is no replaceable part except the batteries. I'm sure it will last a long time …. And probably longer than my interest in using it after I've tested all the water in my life.
@@JCTravelStories if you want to send it to me when you are done I’ll pay for shipping 😜
Hello Jerry,
I think this instrument measures only the electric current between the two poles, it is a waste of money ...
We all respect your right to be skeptical. Also, you’re right to be wrong. How do you explain numerical results in 6 different parameters in ranges from minus 100 to plus 2000 if it simply measure only the electrical current. Perhaps a computerized random number generator that gives different results each time??? I didn't spend a lot of time with the boring numbers, but they make sense. Also, my research indicated that the science is used in many different industries. Surely, some geek would have reported the fraud by now. Seems more likely it just does what it claims. :)
I'm confused because I thought earlier in the video you mentioned that you would test some of your neighbor's purified drinking water from their own house filtration. You didn't seem to have taken that step and you didn't mention whether or not you had a filtration system on your own house or that was water just coming from the city supply. Thanks
You mis understood. I said that I tested my neighbors water in the previous video when using the colored strips. I do not have an ultraviolet purification system in my house. Don't trust them.
🙏🙏🙏
do you have a brita or similar? I have a zero water, it has a huge filter and lasts a long time, unless you have murky water, and it has that tester that comes with it! Also I just cant stand bleach water, that we have here in Washington state, I used to live in Red Bluff, CA and it had the best tasting well water, however it probably wasn't super for you. Oh well...so far so good.
There is a huge difference between a Brita filter and the Zero water filter … 1 micron Brita vs O.0001 for the Zero. Translation …. Zero is 1000 times better than Brita. Maybe that's why this was the first thing I got when I googled Brita “”Brita is currently facing a class-action lawsuit claiming that its advertising has misled consumers and its standard filters do not “remove or reduce to below lab detection limits common contaminants from drinking water.” Brita claims that their highest-end filters remove up to 99% of lead and eliminate most ...Sep 22, 2023””
Aqua
Nice shorts, looks so....
I may need to work on my editing skills. :)
Do you remember the arsenic reading from previous tests? Apple juice contains arsenic because companies let seeds in the mix. So I wanted to know which is worse. Peñafiel sodas had arsenic. La Paz, Baja California Sur water contains arsenic -many expats there-, how about where you live.
Some research reports detectable levels of arsenic in 62% of local tap water tests. How much …. “Detectable” as is (according to you) the level in apple juice. Danger? I don't know. I haven't seen any dead Mexicans along the road.
@@JCTravelStories the latest news. >> >>WaImart recalling apple juice in 25 states due to arsenic levels.
@@JCTravelStories three is US apple juice in Walmart Mexico.
Thanks for that info. :)
Most informative and important drinking water tester, video,Jerry! Excellent!
Good to see ya. :)
@@JCTravelStories Being the curious guy that I am, would you test your own urine to see what results you get, would you?
What do you say.
I happen to know that you can afford to get your own tester. Let me know where that curiosity takes you! :)
@@JCTravelStories I will certainly let you know. I hope the tester doesn't blow up in the process! 🤣
@@JCTravelStories Hey amigo. My curiosity took me to the possibility of a bio research co. coming up with a urine tester for ANY FORM OF CANCER. You would dip it in a glass of your urine and it would come up with two results: one, would be no cancer detected. The other, obviously, would be "a form of cancer has been detected, please visit an oncologist". If you don't dream it, you won't realize it. You and Lynn take care now.
I really wanted one and used your link provided. Got to the check out and my card was refused!. Never had my card refused before anywhere. Guess I can't get one. 😒
Sorry that happened. It’s all above my pay grade to explain that.
We've been hearing about plastic in the water, wonder if it tells you about micro plastics?
I think they would fall into the category of tds … total dissolved solids. I'll soon be testing a countertop reverse osmosis purifier …. I'm reading that the microplastics I our water are sized 10 to 20 microns. They can't get through an RO filter.
@@JCTravelStories I've heard that boiling eliminates the plastic, but I'm sure we're already full of it...plastic that is. :)
Mr. JC, it looks like you have trouble with your left shoulder. Hope it's nothing serious, Ms. Lynn depends on you. What's going on with that Mexican rain? I sure do like the way you showed the different tests,
but a lot of the stuff is nothing but to scare people. Just think about all the garbage they dump in
the oceans and people eat all that seafood out of them. We used to have a in ground pool for 30
years, but had it filled in when we decided it would be too much to take care of at our age. But I tested the drinking water in Georgia and compared it with our swimming pool water, just out of curiosity, and
our drinking water was almost deep orange from the chlorine in it. You know Mr. JC, I think the
scientists and environmentalists are out to drive people crazy. They did a good job with the pandemic,
which was partly motivated by politics. Good video, but COD sounds bad, human waste, is scary.
Chlorine … of course there is any in the bottled water we drink at home in Mexico …. Or Fluoride. When we go to the USA I can smell it in the water. Not at the ranch … it’s well water. :)
I cannot believe that CocaCola has good water!
Wasn’t the water by Pepsi better ?
E-Puro by Pepsi was the best. This is why we test. :)
"COD" ...
I have a totally different translation for that.
Acronyms are annoying !
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Agreed. :)
What about arsenic?
I have not found any believable info about arsenic. One study said 62% of local tap water had measurable levels. Is measurable dangerous? Don't know. Some say so does apple juice. Let me know if you know anything about this.
5 gals. of spring water is 2.50 u.s.d. Why worry about the water? I always buy bottled.
I'm paying $1.44 per 5 gallons here in Mexico. It’s not about the money. Have you tested your?
I spend winters in Zipolite. A bit more there. @@JCTravelStories
Test your urine 👍
You're the second request for that. You first. :)
I don't understand why Mexico can't provide clean tap water. The US and its territories can, Canada can, Australia, New Zealand, nearly all of Europe (old Soviet satellites excluded) can. If you can drink from the tap in Poland or Costa Rica, why can't Mexico do it?
Please read the comment just before yours about a lady needing to boil her water in the USA. Mexico has clean potable water, but delivery system is old. Cities don't pump pressure 24/7 …. So properties have personal reservoirs under ground and on the roof ( places for bacteria to grow) and their own pressure pump or gravity flow. When the city is not pumping the leak that sprays under pressure sucks dirt as the water drains from higher homes to lower homes. That's why Mexico has delivers dirty water and personal storage tanks are breeding grounds for things you don't want to drink. Look at a picture of any Mexican city … you see black tanks on the roof.
Yes! We have very old pipes here in Florida and I boil and then put it thru a filter. Can't be too careful!
not surprise about lake chapa, what make me feel bad was the rain water, i have always tought it was safe to drink if you would catch before hitting the ground or any surface, a guess i was wrong..
I think it was a bad sample. Very windy I think dust blew into sample I tested it again and came out 88% good. Drinkable.
@@JCTravelStories good!!
I ordered that water test that you made a video about but you did not mention that it would be coming from China. It is taking forever to get and would never would have ordered it if I knew how long it would take to receive it. YOU NEED TO TELL US WHERE THESE THINGS ARE BEING SHIPPED FROM. I like your videos but am not happy with this BS.
I'm sorry you are having to wait. I order many things from China here in Mexico. Often it takes 3 days to go from China to Mexico City and then a couple more weeks for the last 300 km. China isn't slow. It’s Mexico. Did you get a tracking number? Where is the hang up?