Have you ever thought of collecting rain water for drinking? Is it a viable alternative to man-made poisons?!
Answers: City tap water has bleach, chemicals and drugs from poop. Country water has poop. Bottled water has plactic chemicals that many say is worse that city water.
my uncle collects rain water but he runs it through a brita first before he drinks it. he has three big containers he collects it it
As the rain falls it picks up pollutants that are floating in the air. I think city water is safer.
Rain comes from evaporated water collecting in the sky. So if the water was dirty then your rain water is dirty. It might be worse than the stuff you are drinking. Ever hear of "acid rain"?
alot of places in Australia still use rain water tanks for there water so why not
I have achually thought of doing that once but, I'm to use to drinking bottled water!
Hello,
Rain water can also have nasty crap in it.
So I guess we are all screwed :0(
Dude we all have to die at some point and time!!! Enjoy life my friend live dangerously drink tap water
There is pollution that mixes with the rain water, and also the water has been re-evaporated into the air from somewhere (and it's tough to guarantee from where). Ie: if it's from a polluted lake, you could be drinking acid rain. You're better off just investing in a filter for your tap.
Yes, it's very viable.
You forgot to mention fluoride, it's VERY bad for you.
Watch this on Fluoride.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...
Rain water does have contaminents in it though. The best way to have water is to distill it. Then add a pinch of Real Salt to restore the minerals. http://www.realsalt.com
Reverse Osmosis also takes about 99.9% of the things out of city/tap water. But distilling is about the best method.
I think so, it can pick up dirt and pollutants from the air, but probably less so then from the ground, so you should still filter it.
You might also want to monitor the Ph levels -- to ensure it doesn't get acidic enough to damage your pipes or something.
it can be an option to collect rain water, but you might still need a filter to make sure it also doesn't have any unwanted chemicals in it. also you can get filters for your tap water too and you an research bottled water to find those that are the best. there are really lots of options. i don't think it's as scary or dangerous as you make out.
That is all that Bermuda has.
If one runs out, trucked in water is a fortune.
Ever heard of cisterns?
Have U heard of Acid Rain?
No. It won't get you drunk if thats what you mean.
First of all, when water evaporates, the contaminants do not evaporate with it. So all those who were concerned about where the rain water had evaporated from were incorrect on that point. However, as most of them also pointed out, the rain DOES pick up pollutants from the air. Acid rain was a vivid example. It was not that acid evaporated into the clouds, but that the water evaporated and then mixed with pollution in the air, becoming acidic before falling as rain.
The suggestion to distill your water is a sound one because distillation leaves only water. But many people actually do not like the taste of distilled water because it truly has no minerals and such to give it taste. (Also, what you collect and store your distilled water in has to be considered.) For our family, the time and energy (?cost?) that would require are not worth the benefit. But then in our area, we have fairly decent drinking water, and lots of people knowledgeable and politically active enough to keep it that way.
In an area with particularly poor water quality, I might consider bottled water, or home filtration system, or even distilling. But -for me- distilling would need to be a temporary solution through a crisis period. Otherwise, I think I'd have to consider moving.
The only way I would consider regularly drinking rain water is if I were in an area where the main water source was contaminated from miles upstream and air currents generally brought air/rain from the direction of a nonindustrial area (probably not a common scenario).
