Eeek! Hmm, yeah!
And I had forgotten that they say rain droplets form around particles of
dust, anyway. So no matter how clean the air above your home, there's
dust in each drop. What kind of dust? Depends on what got blown up
there in that dust storm in that old abandoned mine site...
Oh well.
Rowena
> I'm in the southern US and a friend taught me that where he grew up
the first rain is called "The waters of the birth of the earth." and
they are considered very healing. So I caught the first sprig rain in
pots I set out that I made sure were especially well washed and when I
had enough I filtered it through a couple of coffee filters and put it
in another well washed container and into the refrigerator. Several
months later I noticed there was something growing in the container.
>
> I guess my point is, it is not only chemicals you need to look out
for from rain water. I had never thought about it before that but when
I made my own sourdough starter for bread one time I just set out some
flour, water and a little sugar with a piece of cheesecloth on it and
'caught' yeast... so they are everywhere and unless filtered out could
end up in the water you are using.
>
> I have also lived on an island that used large cisterns for water
collection. It was amazing what was found in the cisterns when they
were cleaned out. Made me not even want to shower in the water much
less drink it!
> PT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rowena
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:48 AM
> Subject: Re: CS>Fw: Lest We Forget - rain water for CS?
>
> What is the current thinking on using rain water for making CS?
> I seem to recall that in the past the general opinion was that
one should only use distilled.
> I have to buy my distilled water, and although here in Western
Australia that is at least possible, it is expensive and inconvenient.
>
> This Australian winter, I expect to have access to fresh rain
water, and have been thinking of bringing it home in big clear water
fountain bottles and using that for drinking water (we do have reverse
osmosis, but I am gathering from what I read that some of the worst
chemicals are not actually completely filtered out by the filters) and
also perhaps for CS unless there is some overwhelming reason why it
should not be so used. I would upend the bottles on our ceramic water
dispenser and use it for general consumption also.
>
> This water would be gathered on a huge metal roof and stored in
metal rainwater tanks. I suspect this might engender some potential
objection, but I don't know. I would go and fill the bottle for a
charitable donation, and bring them home for use. The first rains of
the season would be allowed to run away to flush dust off the roof
before it was directed via simple filters to the new tanks. It would be
collected in the country from clouds probably blown up from Antarctica,
anyway from the Indian or Southern Oceans.
>
> Why I like this idea is that the bottles would not come from a
factory that is forced by law to "protect" the inside of the storage
bottle with chemicals for "hygiene". It would also not contain echoes
or particles or suggestions of water treatment chemicals; although our
water here is basically of high quality, it does have standard chemicals
added to it.
>
> Rowena Down Under
>
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