Yeah, most back country water sources are perfectly safe. They
generally have some giardia and bacterias, but your immune system can
handle normal amounts of those things. I'm not sure I'd trust the
squirrel water though to be honest.
Filtering the house water is more about smell, taste, and
staining/deposits on the fixtures.
On 5/27/2021 5:06 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
I grew up literally drinking from stagnant ponds the cattle were
wading in and drinking from.
Be out hiking or riding a horse or whatever and I drank from any
source that was not terribly muddy. Mountain streams, anything.
Getting a bug from bad water was not a thing in my universe.
Our house had a “seep well”. Just a pit about 10 foot cubed in a spot
that water would develop. We would pump it up to a reservoir 3 hours
a day because that is all it could produce without recharging.
According to some guvmnt official that came to test it one time it
was not potable. But we put it in all the pots.
The reservoir required weekly skimming of dead squirrels, mice etc.
Long bamboo pole with a strainer on the end.
Never once got any bug or upset from any of these water sources. I
figured the animals drank from them and I am an animal. Just skim the
algae and bugs from the surface and get a drink. My mom was born in
1919 and grew up barefoot in dirt floor gold mining camps. She taught
me how to get along in the wild. All kinds of things to eat.
*From:* Forrest Christian (List Account)
*Sent:* Thursday, May 27, 2021 2:54 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Water conditioning systems
Generally well water should be safe, but not necessarily pleasant, to
drink without any sterilization or purification. Why they need
chlorine in city systems is that often the water is coming from a
semi-questionable source, for instance out of a lake or a river.
For drinking water we have one of the ispring branded filter
systems. For example:
https://www.amazon.com/iSpring-RCC7AK-Capacity-Drinking-Remineralization/dp/B005LJ8EXU
<https://www.amazon.com/iSpring-RCC7AK-Capacity-Drinking-Remineralization/dp/B005LJ8EXU>
. I also bought like the 2-3 year filtration kit at the same time.
We have it under the kitchen sink and it is also plumbed to the ice
maker in the fridge so the ice is filtered as well. If it failed,
I'd buy another one without any hesitation.
They have different number of stages systems, and if I remember
correctly some of the smaller stage systems have different options for
the stages depending on the water conditions you're trying to resolve.
I would recommend getting the water tested, first, if you haven't
already done so. Generally you will take a sample before any
filtration and send it off to a lab which will tell you what is in the
water. It will also let you know if anything bad is in the water...
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:18 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
Moving to a house with well water. It's actually my parents old
house
where I grew up so I'm very familiar with the water there. Currently
spoiled by nice, clean municipal water. That house has very high
iron
and manganese levels. Definitely also have hydrogen sulfide
because you
can smell and taste it.
There's already a salt water softener and that helps quite a bit, but
I'm looking at other some of these filter systems to put inline as
well. Wondering if this crowd has opinions or preferred brands
for that
stuff. All 2c opinions are welcome.
I'm also not sure about UV sterilization vs a chlorine injector
system.
Seems like the UV is less maintenance because all you do is change
the
bulb once a year, but IDK it's my first time looking at this
stuff. Any
opinions on that?
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