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| The flow through an RO system is slow. We have a unit under the sink for drinking water and icemaker. It has a small pressure tank such that the flow is fine when you want to pull a couple quarts of water. Not like a regular tap, but acceptable, The water in Arizona is very hard and a bit 'chewey', so we use the RO for drinking and ice, and I use it to make coffee. But everything else comes out of the tap. If I had a very high nitrate level, I would also use the RO water for cooking.
It is an unnecessary exercise to use RO water for bathing, laundry, washing dishes, flushing toilets, etc. You would need to about build a second pressure system to get that to work. Thus the cost and the maintenance.
If I was to do it again, the unit under the counter would be put out in the garage, or some place when I can change the cartridges without having to crawl under the sink. And here, I would run the discharge water out to the plants, rather than the sewer. But that is for another day. | |
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My nitrates in my water
