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

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Post by pjl » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 5:21 PM UTC

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

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Post by ghostman12 » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 5:32 PM UTC

It's from the same guy who made Juicero. surprise surprise

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Post by justusw » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

I suppose this is meant as a counter-piece to the article that recently was on the HN front page:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfilter...

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Post by overcast » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

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.

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Post by iaw » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

From the makers of Juicero comes Cholera water!

This aligns pretty well with the ideas of the anti-vaccine movement though.

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Post by draw_down » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

This is such a goofy non-story.

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Post by aaroninsf » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

iaw wrote: post #5

From the makers of Juicero comes Cholera water! This aligns pretty well with the ideas of the anti-vaccine movement though.

My thought as well.

Well that and, _surely this is a hoax._

The results are predictably going to be national news of the if it bleeds it leads variety...

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Post by olivermarks » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

If you are interested in 'raw' water live somewhere on a well rather than on mains water and do your own filtration...buying water in containers isn't cost effective, unless you are Nestle selling it...

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/12/21/c...

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Post by rhizome » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

overcast wrote: 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.

Someone take away this guy's license to conduct business, please. Snake oil is played out.

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Post by abakker » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:22 PM UTC

Matt Levine had a pretty funny take on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-02/citi-told...

But really, can this even be sold? What does the FDA do, exactly?