Deepa Mohan wrote: > I wonder when the boffins are going to discover that storing water in > those mud pots has some curative,purifying and clarifying effects on > it....then I can bang my front door in the face of that intrusive > water-purifier salesman!
If the pots are actually cleaned regularly, yes. Mud pots and candle filters (with two sticks of a porous rock - limestone or something) have that same problem. Bacteria / algae tend to collect, and mineral deposits (so called "hard water") and any chemical / particulate pollutants in the water tend to deposit themselves on the surface of the filtering medium (the unglazed mud, or the limestone)
