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  • From: Paul Cross <charybda@newmex.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Rain Measurements
  • Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:58:10 -0600

It is raining tonight in the mountains of north central New Mexico USA. With so much talk of water on the list lately, I thought I'd measure mine. Coming off the roof of the greenhouse and running down the dirty gutters the water has

7 parts per million total dissolved solids
5.7 ph
14 millimhos electrical conductivity

Makes me want to measure some distilled water for comparison.

I hear a lot of talk about rainwater containing a lot of "stuff" in it. Every time I have measured it at my house, it doesn't appear to have much in it.

Paul





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