More scary southwest water info (Yuma)

[GunnyGene]

After a quake in L A the city had training for employees on being prepared. One of the employees in my wife's group asked about using her pool as emergency water.

The expert told them you can't use pool water because there's no way to purify it. Note if you have a pool you likely have pool chlorine on hand.

I had to explain to my wife that pool water is a great emergency source you just need to boil it. Or use one of several other alternative methods. I explained the reason they were lied to is that the city emergency folks would probably put a cop on your pool to keep you from using it until they got around to you.

I got a kick out of events like Katrina. No drinking water as the slogged around in water to their hips. People that stupid need to die. They would significantly raise the average IQ of the species if they did.

You can't drink that water because fish crap in it. :ROFLMAO:

 

[Track14]

That's the problem. Most of them are.
When the well goes down , the first ones to call , are the ones that don't contribute anything , or the ones behind on their payments.

I used to live 2 miles up a steep gravel mountainous road in and area that got 60” of rain per year average. I got sick and tired of driving on a pot holed bumpy road so I thought I would take it upon myself to gravel and grade it properly. I hired a grader, a 10 yard gravel truck and a loader and a vibrating roll packer to immediately follow the last grading. I dumped 420 yards of gravel in one day.

It was the smoothest it had been in years and lasted for a few years before needing more work. Prior to starting the job I asked for monetary compensation and the people ,80% of them) who lived below the entrance of my driveway contributed a little begrudgingly. When the job was done I received about 6 Thank Yous out of 21 property owners and 4 others who lived above me who had contributed nothing were enraged!

Well I was pretty upset about that and was proud of myself for not going postal on those fools. I bought a small bulldozer to maintain my own roads and skid logs for construction and firewood and some of them asked if I would work for them,,, No Way !

 

[Sam Summey]

Years ago my dad built a house out here and dug a well (1952).
We were the only house around for miles.
Then a few years later people started moving in.
They didn't want to dig their own wells , and ask my dad if they could tap into our well.
They were all ranchers and good people.
He decided he would let them , but he had to upgrade the well.
He ended up drilling a new one . ( this was in 1966 )
He hit water at 105 feet.
He supplied 7 properties with water.
Everything was fine until the original owners died or moved away.
The new owners split their properties up , and with zoning could now have 4 residences instead of the original 1 we supplied.
My dad died and now I own the well.
I am now supplying 28 residences with water.
The water level dropped to 175 feet , then they started dumping the CAP water into the aquifer.
It raised it to 165 feet.
The last time I sounded the well was around 2000 , it was at 150 feet.
I just dug a new well about 6 months ago.
I had it dug to 400 feet and the pump set at 380 feet.
They hit water at 150 feet .
We are setting on the biggest aquifer in the state.

One other thing.
These neighbors also didn't want to build roads to their properties , so my dad let them use ours.
That is another nightmare in itself.

From the good old days to now days.

Your dad was a Good Man" who was taken advantage of. I used to work with a really nice guy who was great to work with, he was a real ass at times when people from other departments came objecting to one of our designs. He explained his attitude by saying, "nice guys are to be taken advantage of, they will have second thoughts about ragging our asses next time."

 

[Ale-8(1)]

You can't drink that water because fish crap in it. :ROFLMAO:

You have fish in your pool?

 

[Colonialgirl]

Well (snicker snicker) Here in Florida (Zephyrhills/Wesley Chapel area) I DO have my OWN well (forget how deep) the pump operates when the pressure gauge turns it on and I DO have a water softener and whatchamacallit ion exchange unit. I am fortunate as the well is deep and located far from the waste mound and from everyone else's property too. Lived here and owned the property (one acre) since 1974 and have had no problems other than minor electrical stuff (condenser, pressure switch and a new softener). NO Chlorine, or that other junk the government loves to add,

 

[Jeepnik]

Well (snicker snicker) Here in Florida (Zephyrhills/Wesley Chapel area) I DO have my OWN well (forget how deep) the pump operates when the pressure gauge turns it on and I DO have a water softener and whatchamacallit ion exchange unit. I am fortunate as the well is deep and located far from the waste mound and from everyone else's property too. Lived here and owned the property (one acre) since 1974 and have had no problems other than minor electrical stuff (condenser, pressure switch and a new softener). NO Chlorine, or that other junk the government loves to add,

If you well tests clean you don't need things like chlorine. But in municipal systems where water goes through miles and miles of pipe, and sometimes there are stagnant parts it's necessary to prevent the water from becoming quite toxic.

I'm still amazed how gullible the citizens in the US are. They insist on buying bottled water at such extremely high prices it's unbelievable. In the US anywhere you open a tap (off a municipal system) you are getting better water than probably over 90% of the rest of the world. Of course there have been exceptions like Flint Michigan, but those are so rare as to not even be a blip on the radar. Domestic water must meet federal clean water standards. And there is a whole system in place to make sure it does. In short municipal water systems are highly regulated and monitored.

Now, these folks who buy bottled water do not realize that there are no federal regulations (FDA) and likely no state or local regulations either on bottled water. It is not considered a food product. What folks don't realize is that when they have bowel problems it's most like caused by that bottle of water they drank earlier in the day.

Here's what happens. Most bottled water is purified by a multi step process that removes things like chlorine (carbon bed filters), then filtered to remove any carbon "fines". It's them either distilled (boiled and condensed) or run through a reverse osmosis system. You end up with pretty pure water, except that even with ozonation you can't kill all of the critters living in the water. So the water is put into a bottle with nothing to prevent biological growth. The then bottled water is shipped out in non-climate controlled conditions. It may end up in a 7-11. Stuck on a shelf in the sun for weeks. While it's getting all that sunlight and being kept nicely warm the biological material blooms. You drink the "pure" water and get the $H!Ts

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Here's what happens. Most bottled water is purified by a multi step process that removes things like chlorine (carbon bed filters), then filtered to remove any carbon "fines". It's them either distilled (boiled and condensed) or run through a reverse osmosis system. You end up with pretty pure water, except that even with ozonation you can't kill all of the critters living in the water. So the water is put into a bottle with nothing to prevent biological growth. The then bottled water is shipped out in non-climate controlled conditions. It may end up in a 7-11. Stuck on a shelf in the sun for weeks. While it's getting all that sunlight and being kept nicely warm the biological material blooms. You drink the "pure" water and get the $H!Ts

Interesting. OK, I have a question for you. I have read in more than one source that if you put a large clear glass or plastic bottle filled with relatively "clean" water out on your back deck in full sun for a few hours the sun's direct heat will essentially sterilize that water. True or BS? :unsure:

 

[Jeepnik]

Interesting. OK, I have a question for you. I have read in more than one source that if you put a large clear glass or plastic bottle filled with relatively "clean" water out on your back deck in full sun for a few hours the sun's direct heat will essentially sterilize that water. True or BS? :unsure:

Leave it there for a while and green stuff will start growing. Try it yourself. Take a clear soda bottle. Swish some alcohol around in it. Rinse throughly. The fill with water. Cap it and put it out in the sun for a few days. Might surprise the heck out of you.

 

[Arizonagunsmith]

I worked in Yuma for a year. The water in the Colorado was so low at that time you could wade across it. There is a big fight with the surrounding states for that water. California thinks they should have the lions share. Arizona looks like is going to be the loser. That means the countries produce industry will be hurt as AZ supplies a large amount of produce for the whole country. I guess we'll have to buy produce from Mexico.

To add fuel to the fire this recent outbreak with lettuce at Taco Hell. The lettuce coming out of Mexico! Geesh No winning.

 

[tazbigdog]

Silly people keep building where people shouldn't be building.

Ban lawns and anything other than indigenous plants. Ban private swimming pools. Recycle sewage into potable water.

Golf courses too!

 

[eveled]

My tap water makes my dog puke. I won’t drink it anymore.

 

[Jeepnik]

My tap water makes my dog puke. I won’t drink it anymore.

Where are you? Solution could be easy and much cheaper/healthier than bottled water.

But remember most folks in the US have already fallen for the water con.

By the way, does anyone even know how this con job started?

 

[eveled]

The town issues reports. It exceeds all safety standards.

I’m pretty sure it’s chlorine that makes her sick. I can smell bleach when I shower.

Buying water that tastes good and doesn’t get anyone sick it worth it to me.

We spend about $15 a week.

 

[Arizonagunsmith]

The town issues reports. It exceeds all safety standards.

I’m pretty sure it’s chlorine that makes her sick. I can smell bleach when I shower.

Buying water that tastes good and doesn’t get anyone sick it worth it to me.

We spend about $15 a week.

We find that leaving the water for animals in a beaker for a few hours the dogs nor the cats mind that water. Heck they'll drink pond water so mine are not overly particular.

 

[Yaworski]

Beaker?

 

[Arizonagunsmith]

Beaker?

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Sorry... LOL LOL my missus is English and we've had over a dozen English cars over in the nearly 50 years together. We use to live in Canada so I beg your pardon for confusing anyone. Sorry I slipped up... A water pitcher or glass. LOL LOL

Its one of those things, we speak American English, LOL were divided by a common language. Lets no talk about the Aussies... they are different again.

 

[ole442]

I've had an R/O since the mid 1980's it takes care of most of the water I take in. I also used to drink bottled water but realized it was probably full of micro plastics so I stopped.

 

[Mobuck]

We drank from cisterns that held whatever was rinsed from the roofs for generations. Bird poop, rotten leaves, and insects all went into the downspout. Rural water came to this county around 40 years ago but I haven't noticed we're any more healthy or less ill than before. Maybe previous generations were just more resistant to these pollutants?