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  • New Fad: Raw Water

    So apparently the new liberal natural health fad is "raw water"

    Water that comes straight out of the ground/stream/whatever without being filtered in any way.



    I think this fad will solve itself fairly soon.


  • #2
    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
    So apparently the new liberal natural health fad is "raw water"

    Water that comes straight out of the ground/stream/whatever without being filtered in any way.



    I think this fad will solve itself fairly soon.
    The increase in disease and parasites will not be good for the rest of us though.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
      The increase in disease and parasites will not be good for the rest of us though.
      most of these nuts are probably in California or up in the mountains living with goats.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
        most of these nuts are probably in California or up in the mountains living with goats.
        I feel sorry for the goats then.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
          I feel sorry for the goats then.
          Goats will eat anything. We won't even find a shoe.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            Goats will eat anything. We won't even find a shoe.
            But then they will get the parasites, and diseases.

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            • #7
              I grew up drinking that (untreated well water). As long as the source tests out, there's no problem with it.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                I grew up drinking that (untreated well water). As long as the source tests out, there's no problem with it.
                yeah but look how you turned out!

                We had well water too but we had a filter on it.

                I think this is more than just "pure spring water" - they make claims like the bacteria in it is "probiotic" and so on. They want dirty water to help boost their immune system and such.

                Although at least one supplier is basically selling tap water from a spring and selling that at a huge markup.

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                • #9
                  One of our missions in Haiti was to drill water wells to get some of that good "raw water".

                  The clinics would treat the kids for all kinds of parasites, then they'd drink the yukkie nasty surface water and get sick all over again.

                  The solution was "raw water" from deep wells.

                  That was particularly fun, because the Lutherans had water well drilling machines in Haiti, and so did the Baptists. They used to drag their drilling rigs over the mountains, and all over the place, until somebody came up with the brilliant idea that the Lutherans could actually drill Baptist wells, and vice versa, and it was the same raw water that came out!

                  Haiti-Jan-26-2010.jpg
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    yeah but look how you turned out!

                    We had well water too but we had a filter on it.

                    I think this is more than just "pure spring water" - they make claims like the bacteria in it is "probiotic" and so on. They want dirty water to help boost their immune system and such.

                    Although at least one supplier is basically selling tap water from a spring and selling that at a huge markup.
                    I drank spring water too, and never got sick from that (from a nearby state park, when I was in upstate Ontario, the spring in Jericho Elisha made sweet....). As long as it's not contaminated with coliform bacteria, it should be fine. There was probably other bacteria in the water I drank. There is probably some truth to the idea that exposure to some level of bacteria boosts your immune system.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                      I drank spring water too, and never got sick from that (from a nearby state park, when I was in upstate Ontario, the spring in Jericho Elisha made sweet....). As long as it's not contaminated with coliform bacteria, it should be fine. There was probably other bacteria in the water I drank. There is probably some truth to the idea that exposure to some level of bacteria boosts your immune system.
                      My grandpa had a well and it was good water but it had sulfur in it. Stank everything up and would stain clothes when washing. They found a different well but when tested, it was contaminated with animal feces. Not all spring water is pure.

                      They ended up putting a rock salt osmosis filter on the well to get most of the sulfur out.

                      I bet those people in the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia where they made them stop mining coal could get rich selling the Californians their raw well water for $30/gallon.

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                      • #12
                        We went to a ski camp in Michigan once, and their well water was REALLY bad with sulfur. Evidently, they were used to it, because they used it for cooking and everything. Spaghetti tasted like sulfur, tomato soup tasted like sulfur....

                        I was never so happy to get a Big Mac at a nearby MickyD.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          I grew up drinking that (untreated well water). As long as the source tests out, there's no problem with it.
                          Says someone residing in an actual sty

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                          • #14
                            My city has good aquifers so people here drink pure raw water out of the tap. I'm drinking some as I write this. We don't pay bills for water use either.

                            It's an ongoing source of debate whether water-bottling plants that operate here by putting tap water into bottles and then selling it round the country/world should have to pay for the water they're using.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
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                              Obviously a Lutheran well. She's a sprinkler.

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