Technocrat

Would you (or do you) drink recycled water?

Alan
Tue Jan 30 08:32:14 -0800 2007
 (in reply to Would you (or do you) drink recycled water? ) manage
The question is, if not recycled water, then what?

Ther is no choice of "pure", the only "pure" water is distilled, and that's not good for you. There are impurities in every mouthful of water or food. It's a matter of degree.

If you get paranoid about ppm of urine in water, don't even think about what's in any other drink. Or what was spread on your vegetables down on the farm. Or where eggs come from.

Would you (or do you) drink recycled water?
J Melomel
Tue Jan 30 15:05:09 -0800 2007
 manage
"Ther is no choice of "pure", the only "pure" water is distilled, and that's not good for you."

There's not actually any scientific evidence of this claim, beyond depriving you of fluoride for your teeth.
Would you (or do you) drink recycled water?
computersareevil
Tue Jan 30 15:49:49 -0800 2007
 manage
There's no scientific evidence that distilled water is pure? Cite a reference, please.
Would you (or do you) drink recycled water?
Charles E Hill
Tue Jan 30 16:56:33 -0800 2007
 manage
His argument was that there is no evidence distilled water is *harmful*.

Here is a link to lots of stuff about that.
http://www.newtreatments.org/doc.php/WisdomExperience/107

General summary -- there are no reputable, English-language studies that can back up the assertion that drinking distilled water is harmful.  I can not speak to the non-English language studies.
Would you (or do you) drink recycled water?
computersareevil
Tue Jan 30 17:22:30 -0800 2007
 manage
Ah-ha! You've cover it on both providing a reference and smacking me upside the head for not reading carefully enough. Thanks.

OT: Comment reply notice emails are back! Thanks Bruce!
 

Do you have questions about the site? Write to bruce at perens.com . List of all articles we've ever published. Source Code Developer's Documentation RSS XML Sitemap XML News Sitemap Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid CSS! [Valid RSS]