The idea to invest in an "expensive" water filter system came shortly after my two consecutive trips to Los Angeles last fall when I noticed several of my friends had this silver-chrome tubular ...

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Katya Mosely remembers the exact moment it all began, a few years ago. “It was my daughter’s piano teacher,” she says. “She had a 6-inch-long stick of charcoal floating in her glass water bottle. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Los Angeles Times; photographs by New Millennium Concepts and Unsplash) Katya Mosely remembers the exact ...