permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

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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