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What's in your drinking water ??

 
 
H2O MAN
 
Mon 10 Mar, 2008 06:42 am
Arrow Study Finds Over the Counter Drugs
in Drinking Water in 24 Major U.S. Regions.

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farmerman
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:06 am
Im familiar with the portions of the study that STroud Research Center did. They did not include maps to enable one to infer the separation distances needed for septic systems.
I was always of the opinion that septic/tile drain systems were just little festering pools of contaminants seeping into the ground water.

As our lab capabilities increase and the quantitation limits approach parts per trillion and parts per quadrillion, will we find more and more crap in our water.

Isnt much that really can be done to remove such minute amounts.
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Ragman
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:06 am
Paranoia ..deep destroyer
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farmerman
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:09 am
I love the listing of what chemicals are associated with which cities.
All this study confirms is that most of US (and worldwide ) drink someones elses pee.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:10 am
We've studies like that published any couple of months (actually, the waterwworks must do that every month).

What farmerman says:
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As our lab capabilities increase and the quantitation limits approach parts per trillion and parts per quadrillion, will we find more and more crap in our water.
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dadpad
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:32 am
We have a spring fed creek in the mountains. you cant get much more pristine than this. It doesn't meet WHO guidlines.

What ragman said
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farmerman
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:35 am
The annual fallout of PCB had been measured and calculated for a number of years until it became "uncool". The annual fallout into the soil and water surface was about 15micrograms per hectare per month
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H2O MAN
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 07:48 am
I don't think "pristine" raw water exists anymore unless you process it right before you use it.
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farmerman
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 10:35 am
In the US, if youre on a public or muncipal water system serving 1000 people or more, the permitee must submit a "consumer confidence report" to the customers and the reg agency. The report summarizes the frequency of sampling and the results for a particular year > Samples are collected and analyzed from quarterly to every 12 hours,(and hourly spot checks by auto GC and auto ICP) dependent on the size of the water system.

Usually one of the biggest problems are high levels of "Trihalomethanes" , a family of chlorinated organic shemicals that are actually formed by treating the raw water with chlorine.
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Sglass
 
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Mon 10 Mar, 2008 04:36 pm
farmerman wrote:
I love the listing of what chemicals are associated with which cities.
All this study confirms is that most of US (and worldwide ) drink someones elses pee.[/quote

Farmerman my gardenias love pee. They just grow like crazy and smell like gardenias.l;
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edgar111
 
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Sun 23 Mar, 2008 11:17 pm
in fact i add nothing
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