Posted on 01/04/2018 6:12:37 PM PST by SJackson
I believe most well water is fine, that has been my experience. Most flowing water in areas that are not populated is also fine for that matter. I have known people that have had medical or dental issues though so depends on the source like anything else. I am not willing to drink untested and or untreated water with someone else choosing the source, that is just me.
Having your own spring is one thing. But if you are downriver from others, or drinking for bottles without knowing the source....I would be much more cautious.
I’ve got some raw yellow water for sale ...
The answer to raw water’s danger is to boil it.
So did I when I visited my grandparents. However I’d no more drink Silicon Valley ground water then I’d drink the ground water from the chemical plant town I grew up in!
Back in the day the cold water we pulled up with the old hand pump on the farm tasted great, after you got the rust cleared out.
You mean, like this guy? :)
Exactly like that guy. Though he also looks like half the “handsome” men on the covers of romance novels. ha ha...
I was lucky. I fished the Madison River in Montana for years
and would drink the water every time. THEN a friend who lived in Bozeman saw me drinking the water and he went “postal” ——— “What the hell are you doing?”
I now carry and use ‘LifeStraw”.
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Bingo ......burp, fart.
Isn't that an unfortunate phrase, based on the recent fires in Cali. I am deeply offended. If I was from Cali, I'd be triple-dipple deeply offended
Admit to not understanding what is and isnt raw water. European mineral water bottled at a source, is that water raw or not? Is all mineral water boiled and sterilized?
Organic Pastures in CA is so overly tested I trust them implicitly. We have been drinking their raw milk for 6 years now. Its real live food with its own enzymes and good bacteria and it tastes fantastic. A true natural healthy food. I cannot digest pasteurized milk, cream, or ice cream. No problem with real milk which comes with all you need to digest it. Yum.
Intestinal parasites deserve a safe warm human to live in.
This is a good thing for them
Exactly my thought! My grandfather put his well pump in a spring on his property and my other grandfather had a well that ran a few hundred feet deep. Couldn't tell you how much 'raw' water I drank from the tin cup grandpa left hanging at the spring...
Doctors used to say selenium was poisonous. There are many health experts these days that would disagree.
In other lunatic news, some quack in Oregon is forming a tribal healing organization that claims to use traditional healing methods to fight disease. He also is using this to get around any anti-quackery laws in the state, but claiming it’s part of native culture or religion or some such. To use a phrase once used by Mencken, it’s nature’s way of dispensing with the botched.
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