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Drink to Your Health?

Posted January 05, 2008 6:30 AM by Sharkles

Seems like any opportunity to conserve or develop water supplies, especially with recent droughts in the southeastern U.S. and constant scarcity in the southwest, should be exploited. Many states are initiating managed underground storage schemes, putting water back into aquifers in the form of treated effluents and stormwater to replenish supplies. While this may augment freshwater resources, the costs incurred for treatment, pumping, and monitoring for contaminants may offset any benefits. The fate of some contaminants in the subsurface remains an issue as well as states vary in their regulatory strategems. Is this sound water resources management engineering? Would you drink this water?

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01/07/2008 10:39 AM

We used to do that all the time with a highly distributed underground waste treatment and ground water injection system, more commonly known as a septic system and drain field. Then the developers want to cram a gazillion people per acre and drain fields are no longer possible.

Putting it down deep into the aquifers just doesn't seem like the smart thing to do. Mother Nature does a pretty good job dealing with most wastes when we give her the chance. Short circuiting that process is bound to lead to unintended results.

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01/08/2008 6:48 AM

Yes, we do not give chance to mother nature to do the wonders. Naturally flowing water (for sufficient distance without additional influx of impurities) in open Sun is pure enough for drinking.

Besides, we have killed our immunity by using ultrapure water over the ages. See the people in underdeveloped countries, who are not really fell sick with normal water. But people from western countries fell sick immediately with same water.

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01/08/2008 1:13 PM

Typhoid anyone?

Maybe a side order of hepatitis?

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01/14/2008 6:33 PM

Conventional urban development tries to prevent all surface water from entering aquifers. Precipitation and "used" water is collected and hustled to the most convenient "away" point, be it an ocean, river or lake. While re-injection of "used" water to deep aquifers entails great long term risk, making provision to hold up such waters in near-surface soil structures can permit natural processes to minimize mobility of any residual contaminants, while reducing our evolution to more severe flood/drought flow regimes. We see too many streams with too little water remaining to support fish life, except during floods that destroy stream bed structures.

Many people already drink "used" water, as they are downstream of other discharges. I am fortunate to discharge to a septic system on my property. I know I must care what I discharge, but even if I mess up, the contaminants will be adsorbed onto the soils, and not be flushed into a salmon or trout habitat!

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01/14/2008 9:08 PM

You are correct,

there are many places here in california that recharge the aquifers, by diverting run off to areas w/porous soils. Semi treated gray water is also used in this way. All new construction must have holding basins for this purpose.

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04/15/2008 1:18 PM

1. You cannot rely on water, which approximately 5% of municipally supplied, is for household use.

2. You must rely on your own intellect to secure YOUR SOURCE.

3. Distillation and RO has been shown to promote arthritic symptoms. (How you ask?)

4. Water must be molecularly restructured in order to provide efficient osmotic assimilation through protein channels in cell membrane walls. (Encourages cellular permeability...Thank You Harvard).

5. Once again, YOU MUST ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR WATER SUPPORTING YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS:

  • Hydration (nutritional utility),
  • cellular waste removal,
  • personal hygiene,
  • household cleaning,
  • nourishment for your pets and plants, etc, etc.

Quit complaining about the system and do something to help yourselves and your family. You may be dead before the system is fully functional.

6. THE PROBLEMS:

  • Education
  • Psychologically-oriented Sales Schemes
  • DISTRUST due to such sales and media-based MISINFORMATION; false networking.
  • Political (Good-ole-Boy Network) Misappropriation of Funds which are supposed to be allocated to address the UTMOST NEEDS common to us all. (not campaign funding and earmarks)
  • The Information Era...Internet...there is a lot to process folks.

THE SOLUTION? No SOLUTION (chemistry) at all...

  • QUIT frickin' mixing chemicals up and advertising them to the population as GOLD.
  • Manufacturing and processing of consumer-based household products, agricultural run-off and pharmaceutical concoctions are the primary culprits.
  • Besides 'The Defense Budget'...the money trails lead right to the sources.
    1. Are the drugs fixing the problems, or just reducing the symptoms?
    2. Are the pesticides actually enhancing production of OUR FOOD?
    3. What's going on at the SOURCE, creating those symptoms/realities?
    4. The tricky part is in determining what/where the SOURCE actually is (in all processes).

Citric acid and sugar make that tap water taste awful good (flavor cover-up!)...those chemicals and drugs are mainstreaming right in through your tap (covered up)...soft drink anyone?

Alchemists through out HISTORY (Fool's Gold Analogy) have mislead individuals for the sake of taking their money...History continues to repeat itself. Let's turn these circles into lines folks (Geometry anyone?).

YOUR JOB...ASK YOURSELF (Follow this circle)

  1. What is the actual quality of water that supports my day-to-day life?
  2. How have I reached this conclusion?
  3. AM I SURE?...that conclusion is based on up-to-date technologies provided by cutting edge research and information...thus validation?
  4. GOOD ENOUGH? What's the next step?
  5. Go back to Question 1...finished yet?

It is critical that OUR CIVILIZATION deal with this issue...History? Civilizations have fallen due to tainted water (very reasonable conclusion). Biological and plumbing material contamination...example? Lead plumbing...who? Do a little research...what behavioral attributes did this empire have before it's fall? Frightening similarities folks.

Where was it that had the water supply contaminated by mercury?

Just makes GOOD SENSE to do whatever it takes to insure your personal and family's BASIC NEEDS are appropriately met...doesn't it.

The final question...How important do YOU think water really is and why?

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