5/5, 9:41 AM] Rakesh Biswas: @community leader, This is to share a personal learning summary with the group discussion members on a topic that I identified and shared in what I believe is a potentially impactful publicly displayable format below. This is primarily to seek permission from members here as to if they are fine with making it public through my online learning portfolio (which is largely for my own archival currently and has no viewership or impact beyond). If members are not comfortable with the format below, my personal summary can be deleted and I won't publish it elsewhere. Again I may continue to summarize whatever catches my interest here and seek permission from members to share it in my open access learning portfolio but will remain content with not sharing them wider depending on member feedback and if when alterations.
UDLCO topic:
Engineering curiosity to healthcare outcomes
Summary : The UDLC transcripts below share an interesting engineering application event followed by it's ramifications into healthcare as well as constructivist learning. The scientific evidence for the health ramifications is still evolving and one would need to keep watching this space (topical area)
Keyword and abbrev glossary: http://userdrivenhealthcare.
UDLC transcripts :
[5/3, 6:44 AM] K : For example last 2 weekends, i opened, re-assembled, fixed and re installed an otherwise non working under the sink RO machine.
Learnt so much about Reverse Osmosis machines, pre-filters, carbon filters, RO filters, timers, flush out mechanisms, UV filters, high pressure and low pressure switches, etc.
All single handedly. No plumber or electrician involved. My wife was the assistant 😂😂😂
Today, i can probably design and prototype a IoT RO water purifier
[5/3, 6:55 AM] +91 95: This is pretty cool
[5/3, 8:09 AM] +91 99: Now I know who to call. 😊
[5/3, 8:16 AM] AB : "it is in the doing, not the saying", well done 👏
QQ: can you educate us on what metrics to measure a good RO system incl TDS etc? What would be healthy?
[5/3, 8:41 AM] +91 78: Should also ask your wife for her (unfiltered, non-RO) views on the experience! 😁
[5/3, 8:57 AM] +91 984: Slightly OT - My 2 cents worth personal experience- RO water tends to be mildly acidic and not well suited for our bodies. Ten years back I switched to berkey type gravity filter using only Govt supplied Cauvery water. TDS in RO was between 16 to 50. Cauvery between 150 to 200. Cauvery water tested to be mildly alkaline and considered better for human body, I read. I use a fantastic made in India product from Chennai company Rama with activated charcoal and very similar to berkey but fraction of cost. Did I see any difference. Noticed gum health improve, motions regular etc. RO is an industrial softening tech from world war that some health experts refer to as ‘hungry water’ - caveat : please don’t conflate my comments as anything scientific. Please do your own research…and like K’s DIY it 😀
[5/3, 9:05 AM] K: Agree. There is an argument that RO strips off all the minerals from the water. If you have a borewell water, a basic filter with UV would be sufficient. You can also use this water system for all your cooking needs. May be restricting RO just to drinking needs.
[5/3, 9:05 AM] +91 984: Since we are speaking of product features of a fairly well entrenched product that impacts health directly and detailing pros/cons, will jump in as this feedback might be helpful to some out there a/c all cohorts but specifically elderly. You are right; my own experiences with RO water (incl. TDS measurements) is it strips good electrolytes and I have had many a time when my parents would complain of cramping and when we switched them to mineral water for a couple days, it would magically vanish. Even just good old boiled water tends to not have these side effects of RO water..
[5/3, 9:09 AM] K: How do we develop curiosity? How do we become lifelong learners, how do we exercise our brain? How do we make connections between unrelated stuff?
There are so many benefits.
As a disclaimer: Because of these kinds of work, i get consulting projects on skills development, get to speak with students, be a mentor /jury in hackathons and so many benefits 😎
[5/5, 10:40 AM] community leader : Personally if there is no PII, we are fine. Communities are a closed group and we can be candid with each other and have substantive conversations without any potential risk or liability etc esp to our employers etc. In general, good to summarize versus verbatim but no harm done I think. Others can also chime in. Thanks for checking.
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