I find water filtering to be awfully complex. I don't want to drink
fluoride or chlorine.

For drinking water I'm now drinking Mountain Spring in the clear plastic
jugs. I'm happy with this. When I renovate my kitchen I could put in
reverse osmosis, but then I'd be taking out the calcium and magnesium.
Living alone, bottled water isn't all that expensive.

But what about showering? I like to get rid of the chlorine there. Then
what else shouldn't be in my shower water?

Coming from the mercola.com web site it sends you to
http://www.aquamd.com/main/watercheck.cfm where they give you a free water
check up. It basically has a database of the water reports that each water
system must file. With commentary added by someone, either Mercola or
AquaMD. It does not list chlorine or fluoride levels. Not surprising, as
the water authorities add it and think they are beneficial. I added the red
color for ones out of range. Here's what it has for me:
http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/WaterTestResults.htm

But what gets confusing is just what filters remove what? The water
pressure in the fourth floor shower isn't all that strong. Do shower head
filters only remove chlorine? The whole house filters presumably remove
much more. But do they remove things that I'd like removed? Such as what is
red on my report?

Thanks, Don donwiss at panix.com