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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] distilled water
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:52:02 -0700

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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