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Meet “raw” water – ludicrously priced unfiltered water with random bacteria

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This is the dude that started that Juicero nonsense. Now he's circumventing all of the progress we've made in the last few hundred years with making water potable. This should end well.

I think a real opportunity was missed by not branding this as "Natural Selection" brand water.

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Some of us grew up on well water. It's generally fine, although you need to inspect and treat it regularly, and if one of your neighbors really messes up his well, it can affect the whole water table around him too. My digestive track always gets a little messed up when I visit my parents back home (although this could also be from the water being treated for hardness).

If you were really interested in non-municipal water, the best route to go would be some sort of filtered reverse osmosis setup or something similar, of which you most certainly do not need a Silicon Valley snake oil salesman for. You can also get a home system to make distilled water just for drinking that won't cost that much.

Honestly, the biggest issue that the average person could have with municipal water is it being overly hard. I might get a filtration system in our new place to deal with that. I might also be tempted to get some kind of filtration system for water just for my coffee and tea, simply for taste reasons.

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post #17
post #4

This is the dude that started that Juicero nonsense. Now he's circumventing all of the progress we've made in the last few hundred years with making water potable. This should end well.

Are we certain he isn't simply trolling us all on a level so big that he's making money doing it?

Oh he's most certainly doing both.

Re: Meet “raw” water – ludicrously priced unfiltered water with random bacteria

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Some of us grew up on well water. It's generally fine, although you need to inspect and treat it regularly, and if one of your neighbors really messes up his well, it can affect the whole water table around him too. My digestive track always gets a little messed up when I visit my parents back home (although this could also be from the water being treated for hardness). If you were really interested in non-municipal…

Yes, well water is generally fine but as you mentioned, there's quite a bit that can be done to make it even safer, which this company apparently neglects, as a selling point.

>My digestive track always gets a little messed up when I visit my parents back home

Not necessarily dangerous, but also not an experience I'd pay $6/gallon for.

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post #14

It’s easy to dismiss the claim that fluoride is a mind control drug, if taken literally. When I’ve probed just a little the actual claim I’ve heard is that it somehow affects personality, making for easier to control masses. I don’t know whether that’s true but at least that’s a claim that can be falsified. The other thing is: “Tap water? You’re drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them,” There’s plenty…

TLDR: Bullshit bullshit, talking out of asshole bullshit.

Re: Meet “raw” water – ludicrously priced unfiltered water with random bacteria

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Don't know about about other countries but where I live obtaining and selling spring and mineral water is nothing unusual. There are laws that regulate it to ensure it's safe for consumption.(link with english translation on the right side) https://likumi.lv/ta/id/278817-noteikumi-par-dabigo-mineralu...

Pay attention to point 16:

> 16. Any disinfection treatment by whatever means and the addition of bacteriostatic elements or any other treatment likely to change the viable colony count of the natural mineral water is prohibited for natural mineral water and spring water.

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