That’s why I only drink rainwater and grain alcohol Mandrake.
A few years ago I had a septic system pumped. I got to talking with the guy, and he commented that he’d been at some homes where the tanks were a real mess—things didn’t break down. He said they were usually occupied by elderly people taking a lot of medications, and that the medications seemed to kill the normally active bacteria, causing the problem.
I thought it was interesting, considering that medications are measured in fractions of grams, and the septic tank is roughly 1500 to 2000 gallons, plus overflow.
Fifty years of birth control hormones in the water supply has given us a generation of sissified wusses instead of masculine men.
The thing I don’t understand about this cycle of drugs being washed off and then returning is this: Drugs don’t degrade?
For years, I have been using the expensive countertop filters and water pitcher filters to take out the chorine and other contaminants - I thought. After getting a TDS meter and testing our water before and after filtering, I discovered these filters do almost nothing in the way of filtering out contaminates. Our water system has a TDS reading of 450+ (even after filtering). The limit is 500. This means there are all kinds of other compounds and salts dissolved in the water that not only prevent it from hydrating a body properly, many can be harmful to you over time. If plants and their simple systems can't handle it, common sense says a complex system like the human body can also be adversely affected by these contaimenants.
In order to verify my readings, I tested some distilled water I had on hand that was years old. It tested zero for TDS. I also had some bottles of Ozarka Spring water stored. Ozarka had a reading of about 45 on the TDS meter. pH of the municipal water was practically off the scale of my test strips 8-9. Rainwater here is about 5. Plants like a pH of about 6. In my smug ignorance, and false faith in my "filtered" pitchers, I often berated those who drank bottled water - not anymore, at least not those who drink Ozarka spring water from Walmart.
It's also no wonder I have had a "brown thumb" for years. I had been killing plants with chlorinated, high alkaline water. The solution I've found, just recently I might add and because of researching hydroponics, was the purchase of a reverse osmosis system. It immediately lowered the TDS to 12 and the PH to a perfect 6 for plants. Coffee and food prepared using this water now tastes far superior to that made from water out of the municipal tap.
After more research, I find that most say the human body needs a higher pH (more alkaline) or neutral water (ph of 7). I'm not convinced but looking at adding a mineral post filter to the system split off from the main tank, just for a mineralized water for drinking.
Would appreciate input of others who have studied and worked on this.
Glad we have a well for our water here in the mountains, and it’s sparsely populated.
Many years ago, I read a story about how Prozac was found in the water table in England.