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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 03 2018, @12:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-the-cryptosporidium-you-can-drink dept.

At Rainbow Grocery, a cooperative in this city’s Mission District, one brand of water is so popular that it’s often out of stock. But one recent evening, there was a glittering rack of it: glass orbs containing 2.5 gallons of what is billed as “raw water” — unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, $36.99 each and $14.99 per refill, bottled and marketed by a small company called Live Water.

“It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms the flavor profile,” said Kevin Freeman, a shift manager at the store. “Bottled water’s controversial. We’ve curtailed our water selection. But this is totally outside that whole realm.”

Here on the West Coast and in other pockets around the country, many people are looking to get off the water grid.

[...] Raw water is such a nascent business that there’s debate over what exactly to call the liquid. Daniel Vitalis hosts a podcast, “ReWild Yourself,” that promotes hunting for food and gathering water; he started the site called FindASpring.com to help people locate springs. He prefers the term “unprocessed water,” which echoes the idea of processed versus unprocessed food.

“I don’t like ‘raw water’ because it sort of makes people think of raw sewage,” Mr. Vitalis said. “When you say ‘live water,’ that’s going to trigger a lot of people who are into physics and biology. Is it alive?”

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


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @12:46AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @12:46AM (#617002)

    There are ancient aquifers that have been around for a long time. There is one under the Sahara.

    For the best natural water, drill down in Antarctica. Get water from before humans smelted lead or mercury.

    Personally, I prefer high-tech water. Start by running hydrogen and oxygen through gas centrifuges to eliminate any radioactive isotopes, then join the results to get pure water. Do likewise for a few extra elements that can create salts that would help with the taste.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:03AM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:03AM (#617004)

    I'm gonna go buy a few hundred acres of nowhere, WA, BC or AK, and install rain collectors...
    "Pure Rain(TM)" water ! $20 a gallon, plus $200 for the oxygen-free directional gold-copper-contacts Al tank !
    With blockchain technology, of course !

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:07AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:07AM (#617006)

      This sounds like a wonderful investment opportunity should I just send you a big cheque or do you except Bitcoin?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:22AM (#617012)

        Too late. Elon Musk is already working on autonomous robotic cloud harvesting. Solar-powered, of course.

    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:30AM (1 child)

      by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:30AM (#617015) Journal

      Just don't do this in California: you will be accused of theft!

      Yes, in CA it's illegal to collect rainwater.

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      lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:36AM (#617018)

        Yer gettin' old man: Shoulda clicked this 5 years ago [lexisnexis.com]