Water's Journey
There's a great documentary that's been running in Florida and the southeast about how aquifers coincide with human development and how they're inextricably linked. While two fully kitted divers swim through the aquifers two other guys track them with a handheld antenna setup. The guys on the ground follow the divers as they travel underneath golf courses, a Sonny's BBQ restaurant and a neighborhood. Along the way they found emptied 55 gallon drums, emptied 5 gallon containers of roofing tar and antifreeze. All of these pollutants are being dumped into the same water that is used to supply their drinking water.
People simply can't connect the water below-ground with the water above-ground, but this documentary has been doing a great job of getting the point across. It's quite intriguing to cut between the divers and the trackers. At one point the divers discover the bones of a Mammoth that have lain deep at the bottom of a sinkhole for 10,000 years or more.
Check your local PBS stations for a listing of this movie and try to catch it yourself because it's more than likely that YOUR part of the country benefits from these underground rivers....why do you think that people have wells everywhere?
People simply can't connect the water below-ground with the water above-ground, but this documentary has been doing a great job of getting the point across. It's quite intriguing to cut between the divers and the trackers. At one point the divers discover the bones of a Mammoth that have lain deep at the bottom of a sinkhole for 10,000 years or more.
Check your local PBS stations for a listing of this movie and try to catch it yourself because it's more than likely that YOUR part of the country benefits from these underground rivers....why do you think that people have wells everywhere?
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yet we seem to go through ungodly amounts of bottled poland spring anyway...
The problem with aquifers is that you don't know what your upstream neighbor has been dumping into his/her lawn. Apparently old school in Florida is to just dump your junk in a sinkhole. This doc could be helping to educate the residents, but since I don't live in the Sunshine State I have no idea if this is getting any play down there.
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Originally posted by Paul
NYC tap water is the best... possibly in the world... but most definitely in the US... only place that might have us beat is the villages in the southern mountains of italy that get all of their water from springs... (San Pellegrino is bottled there... they have sparkling and natural coming out of the ground... good stuff)
yet we seem to go through ungodly amounts of bottled poland spring anyway...
There's tons of other places where people get their water from unpolluted springs, rivers etc
Where did you get that NYC tap water is the best in the world? Do you have studies that prove that? What exactly does "best" mean? The least amount of chemicals? What?
Tap water in a lot of places is better than a lot of bottled waters.
I am currently drinking water produced through a wonderful japanese machine that filters the tap water (chlorine and fluoride are not good)first, then breaks it down into smaller molecule clusters and alkalizes it through electrolysis.
The machine can produce highly acidic water(good for disinfecting, killing bacteria), mildly acidic water (great for the skin, astringent), purified water with a pH of 7, purified alkaline water(pH from 8 to 10) , and highly alkalized water (pH of 12+). I never knew water could be so powerful.
The water that I drink(pH of 9.5)has a higher absorption rate thanks to the smaller molecule clusters, has been purified, has a very low ORP(oxidation reduction potential) of around minus 400mV compared to tap water which is around plus 600 ORP.(n the plus range indicates oxidation.). It's awesome water. What water should be. Plus it's great for preventing hangovers.
Originally posted by Paul
NYC tap water is the best... possibly in the world... but most definitely in the US... only place that might have us beat is the villages in the southern mountains of italy that get all of their water from springs... (San Pellegrino is bottled there... they have sparkling and natural coming out of the ground... good stuff)
Yep. NYC tap water is cleaner than e.g. Evian .. which is weird, especially as it's so much more in to buy bottled water from Europe than drink the tap water..
t.fall
Originally posted by trick fall
Fiji's pretty good. My favorite though is Volvic, but that might just be because of the movie the player.
t.fall
My favorite is Volvic, not only because i live only at one hour of the volcanoes, but because i love it's taste.