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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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.
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.
Another sign that people have too much money and too little common sense.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You may be thinking of Asiatic cholera, which is caused by water-borne bacteria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...so I would say good genes, and many blessings from on high.
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
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.
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.
What’s it measuring? 98 parts per thousand salt isn’t a big deal, 98 parts per billion of TCE is...
Live Water - now with dear poop!
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