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Originally Posted by Coldjensens
What my father did with their extremely hard water was to soften the water, but instal a seperate tap for hard water for drinking. Most hard water is good for you to drink. It contains iron among other minerals that you need anyway. Why remove the minerals from your water and then end up taking supplements to get the minerals that you need?
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Why? Indeed, why?
I am neither an alarmist or a scientist. I don't pretend to be a nutirionist or treehugger, but I always find the old 'nature's-water-is-good-for-you' routine a bit in the clouds.
Look here for typical contaminants found in ground waters across the US. This is not to imply that your water contains these but this is just a small list of the thousands of contaminants that DO exist.
Drinking Water Contaminants | Safewater| Water | US EPA
We have customers that continue to drink water from rain-catchment systems off their roofs ignoring the fact that birds crap on it, asphalt shingle shed their residue, farming chemicals collect there and the dead leaves mulching in the eaves troughs adds to the "Nature's water". Others simply don't put milk in their coffee because it curdles in hard ground water!!! A glass of Lipton tea looks like coffee and foams around the edges. Whew!
The contaminants going into the ground water from pollution, neglect and farming/industry is becoming
astounding. Last night, I saw a program that stated nearly 90% of all smallmouth bass males in the US are taking on female charactoristics (producing eggs) due to pollution in ground waters. There is a fear that the species will disappear, not due to over-fishing like some species, but to genetics caused by pollution in the same waters that many out there find wonderful to provide for their families WITHOUT treatment...or consideration, let alone concern. Whew!
Cool May weather delayed smallmouth bass season - Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL) | Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1N1-0EFEFFFFF8435A60.html - broken link)
Moreover, I believe water should be a
transporter of nutritients NOT a
supplier. Put as much philosophy in a proper diet/exercise and you would benefit far more. Water is one thing I am rarely glib about.
The arguement that water contains iron and calcium and magnesium, ad naseum, would be valid (and I would support it) if two things were true.
One: that that were all it contained and absolutely nothing else were also polluting the beverage, and
Two: you were able to drink, what?, 12 gallons a day to provide the minimum amount of a given nutrient that, say and 10oz glass of milk, or a selection of fruit, nuts and vegetables in what should be inclusive in a typical meal may...without causing hyperhydration (water intoxication). Whew!
Most of us rarely even fulfill the minimun 8 glasses a day anyway. I don't see the benefit of accepting a host of unknown contaminants for an infinitesimal amount of so-called positive nutrients commonly found in readily available and delicious foods. Ah!
Even furthermore, can you say the the potassium from a banana, apricot, avocado, cantaloupe, kiwi, lima beans equals that that comes from the dudious water ground? Ah!
...that the iron from raw ore mineral deposits dissolved by acid rain is preferreed to that found in red meat, liver, herbs and choice breakfast cereals? Ah!
...would you recommend going out to the driveway, grab a handleful of gravel and dissolve it is white vinager for three days, drink it down and say, "Hey, I got my calcium for the day in a pH-balanced beverage."? Whew!
The calcium in your hard, untreated ground water--is that 0.002%, 2% or... 20,000% of your daily recommended needs? I wonder how that is monitored, adjusted and managed? Is excess calcium from dissolved rock (you know that crusty stuff that builds up around your stainless steel faucets and plugs up pipes) passed through the urine tract; stored in blood vessels, organs or the skeletal system; or collects in layers and layers in places like, I don't know, kidney stones? Whew!
Which is more important: the water that goes ON your body, or the water that goes IN your body? Uhm?
Well, I don't think I would convince you to change your lifestyle but I will certianly continue to maintain excellence in water consumption. I certainly find the water that interacts with all the cells, organs and tissue of my body more important that my water for my laundry and washing cars, which I DO treat as well.
I would rather say "Ah!" than "Whew!" when it comes to a tall glass of cool, clear CLEAN water.
Take care of your water, and your water will take care of you.
Andy Christensen, CWS-II
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