Posted on 01/22/2018 5:29:33 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
It has what plants crave!
I have city water coming to the house and a damn good well out back that’s not connected to the house. While the well water tastes much better than the city the RO unit seems to tame it down.
‘The Oregon Trail.’
We all drink from the well on our farm. Us, house pets, livestock, hunting dogs and mule. No complaints to date. ;)
There’s some truth to your experience, but fluoridated water is not the solution they say it is.
If you had continued to ingest that crap into adulthood, you might have compromised your health in ways you’d have come to regret later.
Actually, eco and health nazis want us to go back to the stone age.
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But and however, once reaching the Stone Age, they will demand we go back to living in trees, since absolutely nothing is good enough for them. After the trees, perhaps they will demand going back to living under water ...
Correction: excerpts.
I worked water treatment for a few years and learned basically well water is rich in minerals, which is why it is “hard” or forms reddish iron deposits. Typically, well water is safe unless the well has been biologically contaminated by man.
But if the looney left is using surface water - rivers, lakes, ponds, streams etc, we are talking biological contaminants. The list the little critters that can make you sick or kill is quite long.
I personally recommend that the left drink surface water. It will have all the natural goodies in it they deserve.
As you noted, though, very high levels of secondary contaminants can make the water unpleasant to drink; and it can cause staining of sinks, tubs and fixtures.
The particular secondary contaminants encountered in ground water depend upon the geology in the area where the well is drilled, so different contaminants show up in different areas of the country. In my part of central Virginia we tend to have elevated levels of iron and manganese; and occasionally sulfate.
Sulfate can be particularly nasty. At high enough levels it tends to react with the heating element in your water heater to produce hydrogen sulfide gas. This gives your hot water the odor of rotten eggs (aka fart smell).
The bottom line is that although secondary contaminants can make you not want to drink the water, in the majority of cases drinking it will not put your health at risk.
I think you might be on to something. Perhaps we should encourage this behavior among certain elements of our society...
and last but not least, Listeria
Thank you.
My raw water comes naturally from a spring on the mountainside above my house. Our well sucks up some of the most delicious water I’ve ever tasted. No chemicals, no nothing. I didn’t realize I was on the crest of a trend...
That it did! Never gave a thought to anything other than the crappy taste........
To the other extreme, my folks had a cabin on the east side of the state that had the best tasting fresh water I had ever drank.....
We'll still need to give up our thumbs, and then our other appendages...
Perhaps we can speed up the whole process by urging the Eco-freaks to join the Human Extinction Movement?
My kids loved Oregon Trail but we always died along the way of dysentery.
The well we had at the house in Culpeper was outstanding. It was about twice as deep as all my neighbors' wells, and the iron, manganese and sulfate levels were low enough that they did not cause any staining or taste issues. It was the best water I've ever had.
Where I live now my house is connected to a small public water system. It is supplied by several high-capacity wells and the water is only minimally treated (sand filtration and just enough chlorine to maintain the minimum residual required by law). I've lived here almost 5 years and I'm still getting used to the occasional slight taste of chlorine that shows up once in a while, but overall the water tastes pretty good
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