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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Cholera.
It’s what’s for dinner.
I forget. :)
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.
Rotten egg smell is from sulfur deposits in the bedrock.
I have lived in three different houses with drilled wells here in NH. They have all had hard water to some extent. Typically calcium and iron. My previous house’s water would turn the toilets/shower heads reddish brown until we installed an inline whole house sediment filter. I would change the filter every 3 months. It would be dark reddish brown like an old rusted car.
The current house has a radon problem. We installed a bubbler. It is about the size of a washing machine. All the water goes through it. I typically only drink the water that goes through the fridge filter.
“Love my well water. Feet from the river. Natural purification through the granite sand.
Can’t stand city water.”
Same here on the Rogue. Hate the city water!!
Heh, you can have dogs star in your advertising campaign, because dogs prefer toilet water over all others...I am sure it is most flavorful for them!!!!
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 ...
OMG...reminded of BRAWNDO!!!!!!!
I’ll refill them for $10. If they want to fill a tanker I’ll go to $1500.
“... condenses water from the atmosphere...”
Could that be . . . Rain?
or maybe Galt went into the water bidness?
John Galt invented a motor that runs on ambient static electricity.
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.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3591417/posts
Leftists are stupid. There it is...
Giardia and Cryptosporidium are everywhere in Surface Water and some Wells.
Does that mean it’s teaming with life?
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