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.
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.
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
Live Water - now with dear poop!
Cholera.
It’s what’s for dinner.
It depends on the spring water or the well water. Many great springs around here (NW Arkansas) have been closed off due to coliform bacteria in the water. Wells that have not been used for years, and far away from other farms also have the same. Very deep wells here have a strong “metalic” taste and the water stinks. Some have Sulfur so bad it is unusable. I have three wells on my property and no longer use any of them. When the city ran rural water out this way we went right on it. When the power is out during ice and snow storms we still have running water.
When living out West, alkali was in most of the wells. Some had so much in them they were used only to wash dishes, wash clothes, and flush toilets, IF you had a toilet. Drinking the well water in the West did give us natural fluoride and made our teeth super strong.
I am 71 and have all my teeth. Same for my wife from Dallas.
The only people who want to get off the water grid are largely ignorant, spoiled people who have never in their pampered lives, ever, EVER had to worry about their water supply, never mind walking miles with sticks and buckets over their shoulders to get water that is probably going to make you sick as hell unless you can treat and filter it, which takes time and money.
Our “water grid” is one of the greatest civilized and technological accomplishments of the 20th Century. You can go to nearly ANY water faucet ANYWHERE in this country and drink the water. It may not taste good.
But you can live on it. Boy, it will be interesting when everything goes down, how quickly these spoiled, snowflakes forget about their “off the grid” water stupidity.
They will find out that when there is no water, drinking it from a dung infested hoof print or petroleum contaminated tire rut will become an attractive option.
Do these people also wear propeller beanies and pick their noses. Hopefully, they will pick up some dunce caps while they’re getting their diseased water.
I worked Summers at a mountain retreat in Western North Carolina. I was recreation director. We would sometimes get over a thousand Jr. High and High School age kids.
There was a small mountain stream which had been channeled away from our rec fields. It emerged out of a stone wall near the Rec Shack.
The kids would regularly drink from the water as it gushed.
One day I noticed a maintenance worker opening a large capped pipe next to our fields. He asked me to help him and I did. He was taking water samples from various places.
I asked if the water from the creek was pure and he said they had tested it and it contained bacteria but not a lot. He did say he would not drink from it except in an emergency.
I then asked about the water supply to the retreat. He said it had never tested any bacteria at all. It was always zero, probably due to the remote location and deep wells.
Live Water - full of tiny living things that can make you VERY ill ...
I suppose that must mean I drink “dead” water, all of which is first filtered though a 5-stage, under-sink RO system ...
I’ll refill them for $10. If they want to fill a tanker I’ll go to $1500.
Yet another benefit to living on a boat: Water from reverse osmosis seawater desalinator.
For Personal Well Water if any Treatment is required most can be handled with a Sand Filter available just about any Plumbing or Home Depot, etc. if your well has Taste and Oder problems try a Charcoal Filter for the GPM (gallons per minute) of the Pump flow at Maximum. Really bad Taste and Oder can additionally be treated with Potassium Permaganate (KMnO4)”Individuals trying to purchase this will have to fill out fedgov paperwork because it’s on the homeland insecurity Watch List last I knew a few years ago. Treat KMnO4 with care. Make sure you get an MSDS
A Feeding System will be needed for the correct dosage of KMnO4.
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Leftists are stupid. There it is...
Does that mean it’s teaming with life?
Wow...is this guy a pretentious wine snob who lost his job in Napa due to the Tubbs and Santa Rosa fires? Are there not enough wineries open to hire his type?
Raw dpring water can be dangerous to drink as it is basically at a discharge point for groundwater that may have collected contaminants along the way.
In re-reading my original response, I think it sounds harsh on EVERYONE, and I don’t mean that to be the case.
If someone wants to get off the “water grid”, that is their business and they may have valid reasons and reasonable alternatives.
I do have an issue if someone wants to badmouth it, though, since you can see I feel pretty strongly about it.
Having been in places where you cannot trust any water makes me appreciate having it!