I would like to know if there is anyone else out there who evaporates their tap water of chlorine for drinking purposes?

I’ve recently been looking into the effects of chlorinated tap water on vegetable plants. One interesting point I found was that the typically mentioned 24 hour period to evaporate the chlorine was a function of the surface area. Given the same volume of water, a wide, shallow container will dissipate the chlorine faster than a deep, narrow container. Also, using a garden hose to spray the plants reduces the chlorine in-flight because of the increased surface area of all the water droplets.

As an experiment, if you have a squirter on your kitchen sink, you could use that to fill a wide container. Then compare the results to how you usually do it.

Personally, I wouldn’t worry about dust and bacteria in the air-at least not at my house. Maybe putting the container in the oven would help.

I don’t evaporate but use a filter to remove all sorts of things, germs, metals, solids and chlorine.

I’ve been using Brita filtered pitchers for years to remove the chlorine taste from the tap water. I buy the multi-packs of the filter refills when I have a coupon or they go on sale.

Most of the filters, whether it be Brita or one that goes in your fridge if you have a water dispenser on your fridge, reduce clorine and other chemicals, including pharmaceuticals. Most of those filters dn’t reduce bacteria, the chlorine does that. Brita is very good at improvng the taste of water.

If you let the water stand for hours or days the chlorine should evaporate, but there are other things in the water anyway that you might want to address so the filter may be the better choice.

I have recently, in the past few months started doing this because the water here is so hard that it cruds up the Brita filter and its pitcher so badly. I had been using purchased bottled water but got tired of the waste and hauling those heavy cases from the store.

But I’ve gone the smaller surface area route since I have plenty of time and plenty of two liter bottles. I use about 6 of them and constantly rotate them refilling one as soon as I empty it.

Therefore each bottle sits for about a week or so and that’s suffocient time to evaporate out the chlorine taste. The opening is pretty small and the bottles are sitting in a room without any foot traffic so I’m not really concerned about dust.

I’m quite happy with the results of this method and it certainly saves the environment all those half liter plastic water bottles.

I use a slow cooker pot and a soup pot. I try not to use anything plastic because I don’t want BPA leeched drinking water. The soup pot water I use for showering. I heat the water up and I put it in 2 glass bottles and have not used a regular shower in a week now. I thought I would hate showering this way, but it’s actually quite invigorating to me.

I warm the water I need and I don’t waste any water. I am no longer absorbing large amounts of chlorine into my hair and skin. The results of this method have been amazing. My hair especially is like silk, whereas it had been straw-like prior to my evaporation system.

I have also recently stopped using shampoos and conditioners and have prepared myself a mix of baking soda and my “cleaner” water in one bottle that I use as a shampoo, and a mix of vinegar and “clean” water in another bottle and I use that as a conditioner. You have to see it to believe how amazing the results are after 1 week. I know I did… have to see it to believe it, that is. This is only a temporary method until I can afford more ingredients such as essential oils to make my own natural products.

Back to the subject at hand, I believe this method of evaporation is definitely working to eliminate the chlorine. My concern, is in the amount of dust that is present in the water. My soup pot always seems to have more visible dust then the slow cooker pot, so I use the soup pot water for showers, and the slow cooker pot for drinking water. (I even tried comparing the water from the slow cooker in the same colored pot as the soup pot and still less dust). Every now and then, a tiny gnat will find it’s way through and get drowned in the water. I will not use the water in this case for drinking. But how harmful is dust? And how much does it take to breed bacteria? That is more what I am concerned about.

Thanks everyone for your answers!!!

I use a filter, it says on the box it filters out everything, but I only use it because the water around here will give you kidney stones.

I don’t suffer from kidney stones, I have never had it once, and I intend to keep it that way.