[permaculture] distilled water
Toby Hemenway
toby at patternliteracy.com
Wed Sep 24 19:52:02 EDT 2008
Rain water and ice are full of dissolved minerals, organic compounds,
dust, pollen, debris, etc., etc. (see the Designer's Manual on this).
They are not pure water, and a far. far cry from distilled. About the
only occurrence of distilled water in nature is just as water evaporates
from bodies of water and, occasionally, from plants, although most
evapo-transpired water has solutes in it. Within moments, "distilled"
evaporating water picks up all kinds of stuff from its environment.
Ain't no pure in nature.
I don't like city water either. And I agree that stainless and glass
(and maybe fired clay of the right type) are the best vessels for water.
I lived with rainwater catchment for ten years and loved it. But
rainwater is a thick soup compared to distilled.
Toby
http://patternliteracy.com
SALS3 wrote:
>
> the fact that it attracts minerals it don't attract it fills the empty water
> with pipe and plastic and tells me only use glass for my pure water and
> stainless steal and should show you the above statement that pure water to
> me increases water ability to take away wastes. not pipe because what I do
> is clean the pipe lead out . that's why when you buy water in plastic
> containers it taste like plastic because the water is pure not because it
> attracts plastic please. it takes up stuff easy like nutrients and wastes.
> oh you need to taste the tea it makes. IMHO rain water you say is pure I
> guess that's not nature. ice pure also not nature. hehe give me a brake .
> I get my minerals from what I eat and drink not from the water and you are
> right so what. I don't need all the stuff that's in water now days just to
> get the little good. . are you kidding. anyway to each his own.. to me
> water water every where not a drop fit to drink. but mine lets talk about
> all the bad in water . and most of it is bad. I get letters from the water
> company all the time telling me that water I drank last month tested bad.
> how do you undrink last months water after the fact. I have more doubts
> about what folks call water than pure water. some folks take the water out
> of rivers where you can't even see your own hand. they fix it up make it
> taste like water and give the people that. I have to try and take all the
> stuff they put in out and clean it up and out comes water. h2o and pure
> water has no taste. if you make it using only the sun and what a natural
> thing that is . Natures own water. where the sun draws the water up . that
> is what rain is and I feel this is even cleaner than rain because rain has
> to pass through the air that man has also messed up. ever hear of acid
> rain. this water does not attract pipe like a magnet it fills the empty
> space in pure water and the city is so full of junk it can pass through the
> pipes and not pick as much up . same as when u drink that water its so full
> of stuff it don't pick up and clean you aND instead of cleaning and taking
> out waste it leaves you something , fluoride, clorain, lead etc. IMHO give
> me clean water anyday. to each his own. i don't like to take a bath in
> city water let alone drink it.
>
>
>
>> aggressively attracts minerals (it sure sucks them out of pipes and
>> such) and is thought to deplete the body of minerals if used
>> extensively. Steve Read's post cites some of the evidence.
>>
>> There's nothing in nature to suggest that distilled water is good for
>> animals to drink. Plants and animals live on non-distilled water (and
>> the biodynamics folks consider distilled water to be dead and thus
>> harmful to life) so I wouldn't experiment on myself.
>>
>> Toby
>> http://patternliteracy.com
>>
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