Posted on 06/20/2019 8:18:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
a New York Times article mocking a new craze in San Francisco’s tech heartland for bottles of untreated spring water sold by companies such as Live Water for $36.99. These start-ups extolled the benefits of drinking “real water… within one lunar cycle of delivery”.
However, not everyone was laughing. Some were taking notes. Drinking water is typically highly regulated, and the market for buying and selling untreated water remains small and anecdotal. But the website Findaspring.com shows that “raw water” has since become a global movement of people seeking out their own wild water sources. Eager users list and map thousands of natural wells and springs across the world for people to drink from.
“It’s got probiotic bacteria in there… Drinking raw water improves microbiome health.” He’s also observed that “drinking raw water as your primary hydration for a few days yields noticeably smoother skin”.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“My wife’s case of giardia helped solve a missing person’s case.”
Don’t be all Paul Harvey on us. Tell us the “rest of the story”.
Treated water from your local water works has all the electrolytes in it as from it source.
All that and more!
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
In my neck of the woods, they also add a dash phosphates to coat the pipes all the way down to the duodenum.
My hundred-year-old house has a lead pipe from the main into the house, and most of the hood does too.
I kind of miss the tangy flavor of the lead in my coffee.
And that is why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol.
When I was a child my aunt and uncle lived in the country and their water had the most awful taste. I asked my mother why the water tasted so bad and she said it had “iron” in it. I don’t know if it came out of the well that way or if the pipes contributed to the flavor. The water never hurt anyone that I am aware of but I didn’t drink it if I could help it.
We also lived in the country and had well water but ours tasted fine.
I’m surprised nobody is bottling and selling sufur water. After all, if it tastes that bad (and it does) then it must have all sorts of healthy things in it, right?
I remember ‘hard’ sulfur water
Went swimming one summer in a local gravel pit, wife was diagnosed one week later.
Gravel pit was at a 4-way stop location.
Missing person report from prior December indicated a local resident, late at night in a snow event, returning from a bar never got home.
Wife’s doctor put 2 and 2 together and later that month (July) winched the guy and his pickup from the pit.
Seems he likely had slid thru the intersection and the heavy snow covered the tracks. Water had not yet frozen over at the time of the incident.
Dr. said (got a TV news spot...), giardia in water is the result of decaying mammalian flesh in stagnant water. Usually from small animals that drown. In most cases the amount of water involved dilutes it so that it is not a real concern in lakes.
I got to keep giardia for the duration of the pregnancy. Fun.
WOW!!
My wife and I had been rock climbing in Colorado, and BAM!
You know the drill. She was very early in her pregnancy.
Her Physician thought it was giardia, said no time to wait for the lab test start the drug now. No time to waste.
Her father a Physician, said that was a very good call.
We had no idea about the alternative???
This was 35 years back.
WOW!!!
You can get some in bulk
Yes, we buy five pounds of course grind and give away most of it.
Could always use it on the ice in the winter?
“Perpetual Sunshine” back in the 1920’s.
Not far from my position, Ottawa, Illinois, home of the RADIUM GIRLS.
...some also painted their fingernails, face, and teeth with the glowing substance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
A very sad story.
“giardia in water is the result of decaying mammalian flesh in stagnant water.”
Ewww...human soup. Glad they put the case to rest though.
Deep wells vs shallow non artesian springs that source through a healthy forest biome. Deep wells are effectively sterile while forest springs have pro biotic forms of soil bacteria.
no, some salt is mined
Not far from me.
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) _ A body found in a car submerged in a shallow pond was positively identified Saturday as that of Carole Pappas, the wife of former major-league pitcher Milt Pappas, who disappeared five years ago.
https://www.apnews.com/ed3023c56cf981966b5aa0c3991e4cdf
Water is 18,000 years old? Maybe the aquifer was somehow formed then, but the water is a LOT older than that.
Interesting outcome...
Police now routinely sample local ponds for increases in giardia when a missing person is reported. I found this out when I lived in the same general area of ILL-annoy as Dumbgrunt.
Waters within driving distance of both Drew and Scott Peterson were tested several times during the investigations.
Because we are still a free country and entrepreneurs are duking it out to win market share and get rich.
Just wait until Bernie and AOC take over. Then there will be only one, official, government-sourced salt in every grocery store. There will be no more waste developing, producing, marketing, distributing, advertising, stocking and selling 50 different kinds of salt. We'll be so much richer then having the government decide which of those 50 kinds of salt you will be allowed to buy.
Here's an interesting aside: Did you know the English word “salary” comes from the Latin word “salarium,” meaning the money Roman legionaries were paid to buy salt?
I wonder if the SJWs know that, every time they say "Pass the salt," that they are paying homage to the evil Roman white patriarchy.
Drew and Scott Peterson were tested several times during the investigations.
Learn something new every day!
Now if I can remember it?
“Police now routinely sample local ponds for increases in giardia when a missing person is reported.”
That is interesting. Hadn’t heard that. I wonder how they obtain baseline giardia levels in the first place for comparison. Would giardia levels increase over the entire pond? Or only in the vicinity of the deceased?
There was a story yesterday that there’s been a big observable spike in THC levels in sewage fluids in states that have legalized marijuana.
You can learn all sorts of things analyzing water and sewage.
Because we are still a free country and entrepreneurs are duking it out to win market share and get rich.
...
And entrepreneurs know that their customers are crazy.
:: I wonder how they obtain baseline giardia levels in the first place for comparison. ::
I would assume they can DNA correlate to discern human remains. Not really sure.
“Police now routinely sample local ponds for increases in giardia when a missing person...”
I learn something new at FR every day.
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