The Raw Water fad

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Cheese

Menstrual blood skin therapy

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.buzz...a-blood-facial

[troutman]

“Raw water”: The latest dangerous “natural health” fad

In pseudoscience, appeals to nature are everywhere. It’s not surprising, then, that there is profit to be made selling “raw” (i.e., untreated) water at very high prices for its nonexistent health benefits, those benefits all claimed to be due to the “naturalness” of the water. I can’t help but note that cholera, Giardia, amoebic dysentery, and a wide variety of waterborne illnesses prevented by modern water treatment techniques are all very, very “natural.”

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/raw...al-health-fad/

[photon]

Mmm dysentery...

[Cowperson]

Halfway Anywhere is a site that does an awesome, annual, survey of those who have been thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Mexico to Canada.

One of the questions is about treating water found along the trail. Do you always, sometimes or never treat water (raw water) and did you get sick (3+ days of wishing you were dead in your tent)?

7% of those always treating their water got sick anyway, 93% did not.

13% of those sometimes treating water got sick, 87% did not.

33% of those never treating water got sick, 67% did not.

Raw water isn’t your friend.

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trai...r-survey-2017/

[PepsiFree]

There’s a spot on the highway heading into the mountains where people regularly are stopped to fill up jugs of water for drinking.

It’s always struck me as very strange.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Christopher Sandborn, who rechristened himself as Mukhande Singh

Isn't that the fat guy that used to be in Stampede Wrestling?

[MRCboicgy]

Are we sure this isn't a promo for the final season of Portlandia?

[Stormageddon]

So when they say raw water, is this only water from streams/rivers or also well water?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

There’s a spot on the highway heading into the mountains where people regularly are stopped to fill up jugs of water for drinking.

It’s always struck me as very strange.

My dad used to release the squirrels he captured there, he had no idea it was a water spring. On the plus side, they were alive. On the minus side, they probably poop lots.

[Swarly]

Originally Posted by Stormageddon

So when they say raw water, is this only water from streams/rivers or also well water?

not sure about well water but found this quote in a National Post article

“The water from the tap just doesn’t taste quite as refreshing,” Battle told the Times. “Now is that because I saw it come off the roof, and anything from the roof feels special? Maybe.”

[Fuzz]

mmmm asphalt shingle rocks. Purifying.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Isn't that the fat guy that used to be in Stampede Wrestling?

I thought that this was completely crazy...but if Karachi Vice is involved I might have to rethink it!

[PaperBagger'14]

If you measure the expiry date of water in lunar cycles I immediately think less of you as a person.

[Kjesse]

RV'ing in the USA with my parents as a kid, there was a spout somewhere along the road where everyone was filling their water jugs up with spring water from a pipe installed to capture water flowing off the mountain. I think there's one west of Calgary also somewhere in the National Park.

My parents said it was the best tasting, cleanest water you could get. Sometimes belief equates to reality. I know none of us got sick.

[Muffins]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

What the?

Clearly this is just another con movement. How do I know?



I'm waiting for the drink your own pee movement, where you get a kit that re-animates dead probiotics in your urine into super strong zombie probiotics. But you have to buy this kit, that includes 10 doses for a $100.00 each.

That's right at some point someone is going to con people into drinking their own urine and possibly fecal matter and pay to do it.

I can think of one guy who could sell it.....

[NinePack]

So many variables for this to be safe for the masses. I mean a deer couldve died up stream, the vegetation , slow moving water that pools then goes down. The mineral content can change from place to place. This is coming from someone who drinks from there own spring/mountain/well. I inspect the lines regularly

[OMG!WTF!]

My dog is into raw water. He's fussy like that.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Kjesse

RV'ing in the USA with my parents as a kid, there was a spout somewhere along the road where everyone was filling their water jugs up with spring water from a pipe installed to capture water flowing off the mountain. I think there's one west of Calgary also somewhere in the National Park.

My parents said it was the best tasting, cleanest water you could get. Sometimes belief equates to reality. I know none of us got sick.

Along Hwy 3, IIRC. My folks used to fill up thermoses and jugs at that spout, any time we went by, which was at least once a year, going to the US to see family. Fill up on the way by, fill up again on the way home.

[Thor]

I wonder how much I can sell some Icelandic raw water on ebay lol

[wwkayaker]

I feel like such a fool for carrying a water bottle full of tap water in my kayaks all these years. I could have been drinking river water and had a lighter boat and more room for beer.

On multi day trips, we use a filtration system and it is shocking what is left in the filter and dirty bag. I guess you don’t win Darwin awards for being intelligent,