“It’s a no-brainer,” said Lee Sayer, a musician in San Francisco and anti-fluoride activist who has been drinking raw water for months.
Indeed. Big no-brainer.
(h/t Terry)
“It’s a no-brainer,” said Lee Sayer, a musician in San Francisco and anti-fluoride activist who has been drinking raw water for months.
Indeed. Big no-brainer.
(h/t Terry)
An epidemic?
They’ll get one.
https://www.ircwash.org/resources/peruvian-cholera-epidemic-and-role-chlorination-its-control-and-prevention
It’s not purely coincidental that Greenpeace was campaigning vigorously against drinking water chlorination throughout the ’80s and ’90s. People against fluoridation also are usually against chlorination as well for the same silly reasons. Both are halogens and there’s no essential biological difference between them.
Shades of homeopathy. Perfect.
And the dysentery is so slimming.
Indeed.
Unless of course a dead moose or beaver or other form of e-coli hasnt contaminated the system….
Walkerton Ontario comes to mind
Tis a good thing that the bears use charmin after a s**t happening, that way there is no fecal matter left behind when they happen to go into the lake, stream or river. Drink hearty of natures bountiful water you greenies and yes, and when s**t happens for you, don’t be surprised if it looks green instead of brown.
Obviously sold to the URBANized “whole food environmentalists” who have never seen the countryside, let alone backpacked once in the Sierra. If they had, they would have learned that those BEAUTIFUL, mineral-rich, crystal clear, frigid, snowmelt waters of the Sierra … which are soooooo tempting to dip your tin Sierra cup into after a sweltering hike up a steep grade on a hot day … are loaded with giardia parasites that will make them so critically ill that they will have to be life-flighted off the mountain.
So many potential Darwin Award candidates, so little time.
The price is outrageous, but surely this is not significantly different from people everywhere who buy bottled water. I am pretty sure any water being marketed would be tested — Just like you can get well water tested. I also do not blame people who want to avoid some of the drinking water chemicals- like fluoride which does not belong in municipal drinking water. If you want to ingest fluoride, you can buy fluoride salts. Also, Don’t forget about all the estrogen now going into municipal water supplies — turning men into trannies.
“… Another wrote: “Just holding the crystal glass jug energized me.” ‘
Of course it did. You’re getting the placebo effect already.
The … “raw” … water actually turns green if you don’t drink it fast enough. Hence, not quite “tested” enough for me. Esp by the numbskull “alternative lifestyler’s” who are “harvesting” this “better” water.
Fer crying out loud … you can buy everything from the smallest-simplest, to very complex and thorough water filters if you don’t like the “taste” of your muni water. And virtually anything and everything you deem baaaaad mmmkay can be removed.
These morons WANT all the “natural” elements to remain in the water. And I am certain they are all certified chemists … and biologists … so they know EXACTLY what they’re doing. Not. At. All. Likely.
Obviously sold to the URBANized “whole food environmentalists” who have never seen the countryside, let alone backpacked once in the Sierra.
They don’t need to see the countryside to know how pristine it is. After all, they watched all those nature movies made by Disney as well as those outdoor documentaries from PBS and Discovery Channel. There is truth in them thar flicks!
These people remind me of many of the Vancouverites I knew while I was a grad student at UBC. They were in awe of the wilderness and the beauty of nature, yak yak woof woof and couldn’t wait to get away from the city to rough it out there. I even dated a fellow student who was like that and realized that she was a flake because of her outdoors obsession. (“You think sleeping in the snow in -40 C is fun? You’re welcome to it!”)
I wasn’t impressed. I grew up not far from it in northern B. C. and I had seen more than my share of it. My first job after I finished my B. Sc. was at a gas plant in the middle of the central Alberta bush, so I got to see it every time I went there.
Nature? Wilderness? Uh….. no, thank you.
Reminds me of a doctor friend of mine. He wont touch Evian water because there were too many microscopic frog cells in it. He prefers tap water. Much safer.
Fools and their money are soon parted. Why should I give a fook. I used to drink untreated water. But I did shock chlorinate the well every year or so to keep things running smoothly. Actual ground water is hard as hell. I was above 60 grains last test I remember. That well was about 115 feet down, 4 inch bore, and direct into an aquifer. When they dug it they said it was easily producing over 100 gals per min. They pumped at max rate for like an hour before they quit and left with the report. I would not recommend the other kind of well that is basically just collecting surface water.
Sometimes you can’t stop people from destroying themselves.
Case in point …
Note that he doesn’t chill his water in the fridge. Makes the cavities in his teeth hurt.
My drinking water comes straight from the well ( untreated ) . I didn’t know I was drinking 9.00 / gal water !
I will never forget the name … Timothy Treadwell … for his gaping stupidity of believing that his personal clan of wild Grizzly Bears were … “his friends”. Oh well … city boy ? Meet the REAL Mother Nature! Not the Disney Studios animated stupidity of it. Yeah, duh. She’ll KILL YOU deadt … if you insist on being mouth-gaping stupid.
Having some experience with water treatment systems – environmental, industrial, potable and sewage treatment- I was interested in how they were getting around potable water standards. I know the US differs from Canadian regulations but having once done joint water testing with a US agency, their environmental standards were slightly stricter. Then I read that some (all?) companies were using UV light.
“As a water treatment technique, UV is known to be an effective disinfectant due to its strong germicidal (inactivating) ability. UV disinfects water containing bacteria and viruses and can be effective against protozoans like, Giardia lamblia cysts or Cryptosporidium oocysts.”
Raw water? Sort of…I suppose. It depends on how you view using UV treatment.
“activist who has been drinking raw water for months.”
Raw water is apparently not the only thing these geniuses have been drinking.
My Masters Degree daughter would likely be all over this- if she has any money left after filling her cupboards and fridge full of organics.
As for lucky me, I’m living 1,000′ up a mountain of basalt with a 510′ deep well with a head of 250′. Plus, being on Vancouver Island, we get plenty of ‘flushing’ rainfall.
Best water you’d likely ever taste and my well report is ‘off the charts’ – in a good way.
Captcha: Lakes Licencia
And then there was that kid featured in the movie Into The Wild. He completely abandoned his life in the city and moved to Alaska and was going to life off the land, completely clueless about what one needed to do in order to survive in that environment.
After he got to Alaska, he set up camp in an abandoned bus he found in the middle of nowhere. A few weeks or months later, he died from either starvation, malnutrition, or poisoning from having eaten the wrong plants.
His body was later found by hunters that came across the bus.
But his “bus home” was so cool … like the Partridge Family in the Alaskan Outback. I think he even played the guitar
Luv it! Don’t even need a gun to rob from the stoopids.
Evian?
Obviously your friend read that name backwards
Wasn’t he the one who died from a lack of fats in his diet? Eating too much rabbit?
I saw that movie. I was surprised he made it out of L.A. alive!
A raw trend hippy gave me moldy bottled tea once, with a lump of slime in the bottom, and said it was ‘Komboo-caa’ or some shit. I said it has gone bad, and promptly threw it out.
It could be. I wasn’t paying much attention to the details of the movie as I thought the kid was an utter dolt. I mean, he ate something, felt sick, and then read in one of the books he had with him that he had ingested something toxic.
Well, duh! Do your homework first, dummy!
I read some of the reviews of the movie on IMDB.com. People either liked the movie a lot or they hated it. The ones who gave it high scores were enthralled by the kid’s back-to-nature attitude, even though it was nature that helped kill him. Those who hated it thought he was a moron.
Wasn’t he the one who died from a lack of fats in his diet? Eating too much rabbit?
Meanwhile, 20 years later comes this: Unexpected and huge spike in Hep C cases arise in Oregon and California. “Cause unknown,” one official noted after taking a slug of his raw water!
Funny that … “Rabbit”….having taken a Bush Survival course while in the Forces back in the 70’s…(Edson Area, Ab), one of the things you learn is that rabbit may fill your belly, but for all intents and purposes, has ZERO life sustaining properties…ie; No nutritional value. The other thing that always stuck in my mind was that Bear Liver is so high in Vitamin A, it will kill you if you eat it…
I found it strange that was an issue as opposed to the Bear simply mauling you to death…
Overall though a damned good course…..
As for water, we have and continue to use a BRITA…does the job.
“…one of the things you learn is that rabbit may fill your belly, but for all intents and purposes, has ZERO life sustaining properties…ie; No nutritional value. …”
Sort of. Lynx feed almost exclusively on snowshow hare. The secret is, they eat the entire animal – including the fats inside the body cavity.
If you eat the stomach contents of a deer, you can get enough vegetable too. I have never tried it, only heard.
Wow. $9 a bottle. I should start selling the well water at the cottage we’ve been drinking for 15 years. We also, gasp, swim in raw water.
“natural probiotics”
?
can we have a chemist pipe up here?
where in the H 2 O part is the bacteria?
is this the same water that caused the latest e-coli-in-the-lettuce alert?
there is no bounds to stupidity now. none.
“one of the things you learn is that rabbit may fill your belly, but for all intents and purposes, has ZERO life sustaining properties…ie; No nutritional value”
This is absolutely false. Rabbits are the foundational animal of the food chain in almost all of the continents. Wolves, foxes, weasels, hawks, eagles, kites, crows, live on rabbits as a fundamental protein source.
In the area of protein alone, rabbits are a very important protein input if a person’s only quick way of harvesting protein is to hunt rabbits.
Wolves alone eat mainly rabbits.
The problem with rabbit meat is that it is very lean. People need to eat fat, animal oil, in addition to meat protein.
I have heard this pseudo-science thing a thousand times ; water has memory
ok but in those rivers humans have defecated, they threw up, they blew their nose, they bled, some died and their body decomposed
if water has memory, it remembers that too
thirsty now ?