Posted on 01/04/2018 6:12:37 PM PST by SJackson
In case you haven’t noticed, Silicon Valley is obsessed with health, or at least the appearance of health. You can see evidence of it just about everywhere, including internet-connected juicers and new medical “breakthroughs,” but rarely is a new trend as obviously flawed as “raw water.” Raw water is untreated, unfiltered water pulled from Earth and bottled for consumption by people willing to pay absurd prices for it. The best part? It’s probably going to make them all sick anyway.
Unlike other healthy eating trends, like consuming only raw fruits and vegetables or insisting upon antibiotic-free “clean” cuts of meat, raw water is actually the opposite of clean. It’s not pure in any way, shape, or form, and the only thing natural about it is the fact that potentially deadly bacteria has yet to be removed from it. It is, simply put, the dumbest food trend to come along in a long, long time.
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As Business Insider reports, raw water is catching fire in California’s tech hubs, selling for nearly $30 per gallon. That’s pretty funny considering the fact that it takes more work to produce the clean, disease-free water lining the shelves of your local 7-11 for $1 per bottle than it does to funnel unfiltered dirty water into a glass jug and sell it for ten times the price.
Proponents of raw water suggest that the filtering and sterilization process that most bottled water goes through actually kills off good bacteria that our bodies may benefit from. You’ll have a hard time finding any studies that support that notion, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that, even if drinking sterile, pure water doesn’t contain “good” bacteria, that’s a small price to pay for not contracting cholera, Giardia, or E. coli.
The best (or worst) part about this whole raw water trend is that it actually leads to water that expires just like other foods. Even the most vocal raw water proponents admit that you have to drink any raw water you obtain within a couple months of its bottling or it’ll turn its bottle green with algae, like the inside of a fish tank. That sounds just great.
In a recent New York Times piece about the raw water trend, Dr. Donald Hensrud of the Mayo Clinic sums up the burgeoning movement nicely. “There are people, just like with immunizations, that don’t accept the status quo,” Dr. Hensrud says. Raw water drinkers are basically anti-vaxxers. Enjoy your diseases, everyone!
Does it come from a properly constructed well or out of a nearby stream? If it’s a well it should be no problem unless the aquifer is contaminated. What’s more likely is to get sick from contaminants at the delivery spigot.
Never drink untreated surface water
My well is almost 450 feet and in the same area as the original Poland Spring.
Nice nice water.
I wouldn’t microwave it, too uneven on heating liquids and some separation issues. Back in the day they simmered raw milk and then cooled it for babies...but I haven’t done it so don’t know details. I imagine that would likely kill most garden variety bad things but doubt it would kill all.
I’ve taken several small bottles of my folk’s water on flights and passed them to crew - amazed - say we should bottle and sell it.
Isn’t that what I wrote?
Yes, but beer certainly wasn’t to “afford”. Very common.
I did find this information, not sure this will guard against diseases cattle might have. You might want to look into it a little more but then again there is risk in nearly everything we do so of course it comes down to your idea of acceptable risk as with anything else.
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