If your water is extremely pure or acid, the copper pipes tend to rot. Probably too slowly to build up harmful amounts of copper...maybe fast enough to be of benefit.
In may places you can see a greenish deposit in toilets and showers etc. This would be copper. Reddish brown would be iron and white would be calcium. Ode At 11:02 AM 11/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: >If the copper particles are plated with silver, and silver is insoluble, >then how would any copper get in the water? > >Also, if there is a problem with copper dissolving in the water in >sufficient quantity to be a health risk, then how are hundreds of millions >of Americans surviving with copper plumbing? The clean water act focuses on >the lead in the solder of copper pipes, not the copper itself. I in fact >have copper plumbing in my house as do both of my children. > >Marshall > >Heidrun Beer wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:19:21 -0500, Ode Coyote wrote in >> <[email protected]>: >> >> > Silver plated copper dust sounds interesting. >> >> Wouldn't that make for a great risk of having copper >> in the water? Dr. Hulda Clark has found a link between >> copper and cancer (via the metabolism of parasites >> in the liver). >> >> If that were used to purify drinking water, I would >> consider it dangerous. >> >> Heidrun Beer >> >> Workgroup for Fundamental Spiritual Research and Mental Training >> http://www.sgmt.at >> >> -- >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >> Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org >> >> To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
