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Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
NY Times ^ | December 29, 2017 | Nellie Bowles

Posted on 01/02/2018 7:48:48 AM PST by C19fan

At Rainbow Grocery, a cooperative in this city’s Mission District, one brand of water is so popular that it’s often out of stock. But one recent evening, there was a glittering rack of it: glass orbs containing 2.5 gallons of what is billed as “raw water” — unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, $36.99 each and $14.99 per refill, bottled and marketed by a small company called Live Water.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheory; disease; fluoride; newyork; newyorkcity; water
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To: C19fan

I have a friend who brings empty gallon milk jugs to fill up with my well water. The public water in his house (about 25 miles away) reeks of treatment.


21 posted on 01/02/2018 8:08:52 AM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: central_va

We’re lucky to have soft water. Probably the only people in the entire state of MA to have soft water. Our issue is silt, which is easily solved.


22 posted on 01/02/2018 8:10:27 AM PST by Snowybear
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To: C19fan

Another sign that people have too much money and too little common sense.


23 posted on 01/02/2018 8:10:35 AM PST by aquila48
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To: C19fan

I live in the country. My water is from a well and when the house was built, they did it right. Water pump is on the opposite side of the house as the septic tank.

I would guess over 200 feet apart, plus the well is much deeper.

The water just about has to be pure but just to be certain, all drinking water is boiled then filtered. Not a big deal except I have to replace the filters maybe every 3 months.


24 posted on 01/02/2018 8:12:11 AM PST by yarddog
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To: C19fan
And Liquid Eden, a water store that opened in San Diego three years ago, offers a variety of options, including fluoride-free, chlorine-free and a “mineral electrolyte alkaline” drinking water that goes for $2.50 a gallon.

Trisha Kuhlmey, the owner, said the shop sells about 900 gallons of water a day, and sales have doubled every year as the “water consciousness movement” grows.

Trisha is a good businessman

Wish I had such a money making scam.

25 posted on 01/02/2018 8:12:20 AM PST by Joe Dallas
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To: C19fan

Just make sure your “raw water” isn’t infested with giardia, a water-borne protozoon that is widespread in California and can be found in many mountain streams that appear to be pristine.


26 posted on 01/02/2018 8:13:14 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: C19fan

There’s a reason people in the first world live to 75.

I’m actually for limited and controlled exposure to the real environment. Most of use are way too sheltered. But the reason people make the effort to people boil water and cook food isn’t taste.

You can go and colonize your gut and your lymph nodes all you want. Just don’t come around me.


27 posted on 01/02/2018 8:14:26 AM PST by z3n
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To: WeWaWes
Dirty water and the plague if I remember correctly.

You may be thinking of Asiatic cholera, which is caused by water-borne bacteria.

28 posted on 01/02/2018 8:15:32 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

One of the systems discussed condenses water from the atmosphere. No streams. No giardia. A similar system is being used in the high deserts of South America to provide the people there with their only dependable source of drinking water. Pretty clever engineering.


29 posted on 01/02/2018 8:23:19 AM PST by Pecos (Better the one you have with you than the one you left at home.)
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To: C19fan

We got a $150 reverse osmosis system a little over a year ago. It’s a lot cheaper than bottled water and better than most.


30 posted on 01/02/2018 8:23:44 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: C19fan

In modern application, drinking water is drawn from wells drilled deep enough to be clear of pathogens and contaminants. My father’s house relies on well water and it tastes fine. Indeed, after several days visiting with him recently, city water tasted of chlorine until my sense of taste adjusted.


31 posted on 01/02/2018 8:27:39 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: robroys woman

The fridge at the new domicile has an RO filter.

It makes a huge difference. I changed the filter out not long after moving in. An alert came up.

The old filter weighed a pound or so. New filter and box, feather light.


32 posted on 01/02/2018 8:32:44 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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I have a cheap water quality tester (my daughter gave me) that I use before replacing filters. The strait tap water reads a 98 (quantity of contaminants). The water out of the filter, around 1 or less.


33 posted on 01/02/2018 8:34:39 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: nobamanomore

...so I would say good genes, and many blessings from on high.


34 posted on 01/02/2018 8:40:09 AM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: C19fan

I make 1 gallon of distilled water either every night or every other night which is quite excellent and I use it to make colloidal silver and we never get sick
Hey simple distiller for instance the love one for about $79 will take any water even sewage quality and turn it into pure water
If you ever go to a place like Mexico or something for sure bring one of these


35 posted on 01/02/2018 8:41:02 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: central_va

The grandparents water stinks like rotten eggs but tastes great and it seems to be some component of how that side of the family lives past 100 consistently. They’re on the border of W.VA. up in Rockingham Co. Up the mountain at the cabin it’s been spring water forever, and that water is so good I used to bring it home to northern VA to drink and make coffee because our well water there tasted like sucking rusty nails.


36 posted on 01/02/2018 8:42:42 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Joe Dallas

We have one of these kind (not sure of the name) water places in a strip mall down the street from us. I have never seen, not ever, 1 person in there. We’ve decided it’s a money laundering biz not a water shop.


37 posted on 01/02/2018 8:44:49 AM PST by sheana
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To: C19fan
I recently installed brand new water recyclers in my house...


38 posted on 01/02/2018 8:47:17 AM PST by moovova
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To: robroys woman

What’s it measuring? 98 parts per thousand salt isn’t a big deal, 98 parts per billion of TCE is...


39 posted on 01/02/2018 8:49:32 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: C19fan

Live Water - now with dear poop!


40 posted on 01/02/2018 8:49:54 AM PST by PGR88
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