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Bottled Water Wastes Incredible Amounts of Energy

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bottled water

Submitted by dawgchewz on Tue, 2009-08-04 19:40.

I live in the country and have a very bad well. The water is unsafe to drink. Its all well and good to say that I shouldn't buy bottled water, but I could use some suggestions as to what my options are. I checked on water treatment, but besides being far to expensive for me to afford I have been told that they just don't work.

corner cases

Submitted by bushidoka on Wed, 2009-08-05 06:31.

Naturally there are always corner-cases - the exceptions to the rule. Without knowing more about your situation, it is hard to whether or not this is one of them, but it could well be. I'm not sure what is in your water to make it unsafe, or what you were told does not work, nor by whom. So it is pretty difficult for me to comment further.

I do know my brother used to live in the country and he had a bacterial problem with his water that was fixed very easily with a UV treatment system that did not cost all that much.

corner case

Submitted by dawgchewz on Wed, 2009-08-05 16:06.

Yes I think I may qualify as a corner case. I live just down the road from a very large land fill that was put in after I bought my house. So much for my dream of a quiet country life. So besides a very bad problem with iron and sulfer that destroy the inner workings of the systems made to remove these substances (I had a Kinetico water system but it failed repeatedly from the abrasive nature of the contaminents) I have god knows what in my water from the 160 foot mountain of trash just up the road. I thought it would be ok to use the water for showering and then I ran into this little tidbit online. "Studies show we take in as much or more chemicals from showering as we do from drinking water."(Rutgers Univ.)
As I homebrewer I long to be able to fill my brew kettle right from the tap but after 17 years of racking my brain for a solution I am beaten.