Can You Drink Pool Water in an Emergency? Water Filtration Q&A (July 2026)

Hey guys, AJ with Crystal Quest. Today we've got questions from the month of July and we're going to give you the answers. Let's jump right into it. [Editorial note: The recorded pool water drinking recommendation is omitted. This video does not establish that a particular source is safe to drink.] So, then we have a customer who says I called a local company and they wanted me to sell my firstborn child for the filter and that's silly. I agree that is silly.

Uh really, you should you should always be wary of getting um gouged with pricing and and just kind of getting overcharged for a filter when you might not need it. Maybe they're quoting you on things that you don't need or they're just crazy priced for no reason. This is something that like we see quite a bit. Uh believe it or not, a lot of quotes, a lot of comparisons for ridiculously priced systems and often times you're getting a lot of things you don't actually need. So, in this one specifically, I looked through a little bit more and I saw the the quote that was built out.

I'm not going to say the name of the company, but uh there were some things in there that were different than how we would go about it and we were able to quote something that gets the same thing done at a much cheaper price point. So, save some money. Um you don't need to get overpriced and oversold. I had a company come by and test my water and claims that I need to get a new filtration system. Currently, my system purchased from you in 2009 is stock except for replacing the sediment filter and other carbon filter.

So, the question is, is my 17-year-old system really dead? And first, I just want to thank you for, you know, choosing choosing us and trusting us since 2009, and uh I really do value that. I appreciate it a lot. Hopefully, we can keep you happy, keep your filtration system running for many more years to go. Your system is not really dead, more than likely.

If your system's not damaged and your filtration is maybe suffering a little bit, after 17 years, I would actually look at the media in the system. Your media may be exhausted. So, that doesn't mean you have to replace the entire system, you just need to replace the media, and that's a relatively straightforward process where you buy the media, we sell the media as well, and you just replace it. So, you don't need to buy a new system. Um but, this does kind of lead me to another thing that I I'm not a big fan of, which is a lot of times plumbers or kind of these field field affiliates or field techs will go out and look at a system that you might have, and they're trying to sell you on their brand that they make a commission off of.

This is something that I think consumers need to be wary about because you might have a brand new system that functions perfectly fine, and someone else is going to come in there and try to convince you that their system's better or the system's not working. So, always be wary, and leading to that other ticket before, check prices, do comparisons between companies. We've got another customer who says, "My well water tastes amazing and doesn't have any other contaminants other than nitrates." If it tastes great, why worry? I love that your water tastes great, but I don't think the logic of if it tastes great, why worry, really holds up in the case of water filtration. There's a lot of contaminants that might not have a taste or an odor, but are not good for you.

They can cause a lot of damage uh like PFAS for example or in this case nitrates. Nitrates are actually pretty strictly regulated by the EPA. So, this is something you definitely want to address. There's a slew of health effects that you can have from consuming high nitrate water over a long period of time. It's important that you test your water to check your nitrate levels and get a system to resolve that nitrate.

Otherwise, you're drinking nitrate water and that's just not good. So, here we've got a customer who says, "I have the water softener tank and there are white pellets in there. How often should those white pellets be replaced?" And so for anyone who's not familiar with white pellets that this customer is referring to are is the salt the salt in the brine tank. You want to check it probably on a monthly basis. You can check more frequently than that but I would suggest adding more salt once it reaches about a third in the brine tank cuz this is allow regeneration and that's how your water softener functions properly.

So, hopefully that helps. Replace your salt, check your system and you'll be good to go. Then we've got, "I have well water with perchlorate contamination. Do you have a filter that is certified to remove that?" And the core of the question is can you filter out rocket fuel? Perchlorate is known as a rocket propellant and it's used in fireworks.

It's chemical. I'll be completely blunt. We do not have a filter that's certified to remove perchlorate but we know from the EPA and other regulatory bodies that reverse osmosis is a certified or working method of filtration to remove perchlorate from water. So, we have RO systems that can do that. All of our components are NSF certified.

So, system's not certified, components are and RO is a proven technology. So, I would highly suggest in this case without looking too deep into the into the actual question being asked and all the context, RO is going to be a great solution for this. It'll remove that from the water. Well, that wraps up our questions and answers for the month of July. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment or send us an email at help@crystalquest.com and we're more than happy to feature it in the next video.

I hope you enjoyed the video and until the next one, we'll see you guys.