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  • From: Zachary Domikez <zdomike@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] homemade water purifiers
  • Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:39:04 -0800 (PST)

re: homemade water purifiers

I think Ken is saying that there are some natural
filters for your chickens and goats, or that you
should use chicken tractors and collars to control
their boundaries. But water is a fabulous solvent,
and the dangers from the roadways are significant, but
very expensive to test for.

Zinc and cadmium are uncontrollable poisons available
in vast quantities along roadways. Tires, especially
radial tires, grind into superfine dust that has large
surface area to give up up those ingredients to
surface runoff, that feeds aquifers.

Ken wrote:
"I believe you are looking for a solution for a
problem that does not exist."

But I am afraid you may have revealed a very common
agricultural problem that we have not tested for,
except in the birth defect, cancer, autism, and
syndrome-proportion syndrome that is our modern
epidemic.

Sincerely Scared,
Zachary
With apologies to Ken Hargesheimer! - maybe we can
accurately say "I believe you are looking for a
solution for a problem that does not exist, YET."


> Hi Folks,
> I'm looking for information, tips, links, etc. on
> homemade, do-it-yourself water purifying filters.
> We've been drinking unfiltered water from an on-site
> well for the past seven years. Now that we've got a
> couple dozen chickens doing their business; we'll
> soon have a herd of Boer goats tromping around
> chewing down the brush and weeds; there's more cars,
> trucks, tractors, chemicals and sewer water leaching
> into our local aquifer than ever before; filtering
> our drinking water is taking on a new urgency. I
> could buy filters in town but since self-sufficiency
> has long been a goal of ours, I'd rather know how to
> make one.
>
> I welcome feedback from anyone who can help point us
> in the right direction.
> Thanks,
> Doug>

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