permaculture

[Paul Cross <charybda@newmex.com>]

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