Posted on 01/04/2018 6:12:37 PM PST by SJackson
I’ll bet most of that “raw” water has MTBE in it given California’s reformulated gas mandate. MTBE is a known carcinogen. Stupid is as stupid does.
Another tip: wells where there is no bedrock or deep, vertical rock structure at less than 250 feet of depth or so are best drilled at least 80 feet (sewage, pesticides, etc. ...best terminated in or below a gravel/sand aquifer. Even then, it should be tested. There are also aquifers that are safe enough to drink from but might yield high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide or other materials that make water undesirable for potable use. Such problems can also be solved with some work and/or money and sometimes ongoing maintenance and periodical testing.
All the houses in the country use well water, and I never got sick from it.
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And back in time if it was a hand dug well and
it was less than 100 ft deep.
My grandmother had a spring across from her waterfall. Her family, including my mother and aunts, drank from that spring since 1870`s They all died in their 90`s. No cancer, no TB, no influenza, no major diseases. My sister is a college grad water expert. She had a bottle of it tested at her lab. It was full of selenium. It was so cold in the spring no harmful bacteria were present... The lab said it was probably due to the cliff granite rocks it came thru acting as a filter. When I was a kid I drank from that spring also, and also from a deep-running spring-fed lake whose temperature at the bottom was near freezing all year round that no bacteria could live there, according to the scientists who scuba dived and brought up water samples from 300 feet deep. They said it was a “Dead Zone” hypoxic low-oxygen fast-flowing lake.
I drink “raw” water too. I have for 44 years.
You’re wrong. Toilet water is actually cleaner. It starts out as totally potable water that’s been filtered and chlorinated. Then it’s piped to residences where some is used for human consumption and the rest is used for sanitation.
You have not lived until you have servived on cistern water.
I’ll never go back to watching TV without this $14 accessory
This post needed a good edit.
How close is your well to your pig slop pin? If it's more than thirty yards away then your well water isn't raw enough to count.
Been on well water since we bought our house 22 years ago. I’m fine. We’re one of the few in MA that have soft water naturally. We test it every couple years.
Huh...never heard well water called “raw water” before, but that’s sure what it sounds like they’re talking about.
Some well water is great, some not so great. I’ve been drinking great well water for over thirty years now and look at people drinking bottled water, raw or otherwise, as though they’re just wasting their money, not to mention taking a chance on it having been bottled correctly.
What I do wonder though, is most bottled water just well water, or has it been through a treatment plant of some sort?
OK, but it would still be cheaper.
I just drink upstream from the herd.
I think they are pumping it from the old Fairchild plant site in South San Jose. Water glows in the dark.
Well water in the Silicon Valley ought to be chock full of your daily requirement of heavy and rare earth metals!
Yum yum!
Beer is just a probiotic organic natural health drink. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
1,1,1-trichloroethane every morning so that your children can have a third eye on the top of their head.
I drink copious amounts of raw water everyday and I have my entire life. Us deplorables call it “well water”.
They'd get all wee-wee'd up over it.
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