I'm curious how you explain our local water to visitors in your home. After you explain to them that what runs out of the tap is fine to shower with
and maybe brush your teeth with, but you certainly don't want to drink or cook with it!
How do you explain it further when their questions begin?DENNIS - 5-4-2007 at 02:19 PM
BB1A-----
Don't tell them everything. After they've been there for a few days, tell them it's fine to drink. "Here. Take a couple of gallons with you."vandenberg - 5-4-2007 at 02:28 PM
Here in Loreto I drink the water out of the tap all the time without any effects. Maybe castiron stomachDanO - 5-4-2007 at 02:45 PM
At my place, I tell them it's pumped from a well that taps an aquifer under a twenty mile long valley with numerous cattle ranches and farms, and is
right next to a pump shed that's been leaching diesel into the ground for about 60 years. Then I hand them a bottled water. They usually exercise
the appropriate judgment.Cypress - 5-4-2007 at 02:54 PM
Water is good to wash in, but drinking it is another story. BajaWarrior - 5-4-2007 at 02:58 PM
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Originally posted by beachbum1A
After you explain to them that what runs out of the tap is fine to shower with and maybe brush your teeth with, but you certainly don't want to drink
or cook with it!
I tell them just that. And that it is well water and a little brackish (they find out after the first shower).
Usually people (like us) are use to purified (treated) water anyway and understand.
I have however caught my guest(s) filling the ice trays from the kitchen faucet before, good thing I was there to catch them, that would be one salty
Margarita!David K - 5-4-2007 at 03:09 PM
Yah, what he said... Tell them just what you said here...
"Drink bottled water, wash with tap water"
Have some bottles of water next to the bed and in your fridge... of course beer works even better!Capt. George - 5-4-2007 at 03:41 PM
tell them it's poison, they'll stay home!Packoderm - 5-4-2007 at 04:19 PM
Tell them that Mexicans have worked very hard to be able to live free from the tyranny of environmentalists.vgabndo - 5-4-2007 at 05:18 PM
In Mt. Shasta we shower and flush our toilets with the same water Coca Cola (Dannon) puts in their spring water bottles. In San Nicolas we cross
contaminate with the well water all the time. I don't drink it mostly because it doesn't taste as good as filtered Las Parras water. The last two
times I got sick in Baja were from a bad tamale from "La Famosa", and a bad taco from Mc Lulu. I don't drink the water in LA or San Francisco for the
same reasons I don't drink out of swimming pools. Chlorine is disgusting and makes me sick.
I tell our guests to not chug-a-lug the well water, but not to treat it like sewage either.oxxo - 5-4-2007 at 06:03 PM
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Originally posted by beachbum1A
I'm curious how you explain our local water to visitors in your home.
It depends on where you are located. We and our guests drink the water out of the tap with no problems. It is all desal tested frequently for
purity. It is less expensive than well or municipal water. Desal is going to become a more important technology in Baja in the future.Packoderm - 5-4-2007 at 06:11 PM
The water in San Francisco is some of the best water around. 85% of it is straight from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and the
remaining 15% is from rain runoff captured in reservoirs. The tap water in Davis Ca. is truly atrocious. I fell more thirsty after I drink it because
it rasps my throat.oxxo - 5-4-2007 at 06:15 PM
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Originally posted by vgabndo
I don't drink out of swimming pools. Chlorine is disgusting and makes me sick.
Using chlorine to purify pool water is old technology. The best system today for purifying pool water is salt water generation. Similar tecnology to
a soft water system. Cost is around $1500 for an average size pool. You will amortize that cost in the chlorine for the average size pool uses over
its lifetime. The pool water has an almost imperceptible salt water taste. Salt water pool gives the skin a silky feeling best enjoyed while
swimming in the buff. Try it, you'll like it.vgabndo - 5-4-2007 at 07:25 PM
Sorry oxxo, I STILL won't drink the stuff.
Packo: I don't mean to dis SF. Still my favorite city. I'm thinking bay area in general, and I think that most of that water is "treated" prior to
use.
We're just spoiled in Northern California, up here we don't even have to have water meters.
[Edited on 5-5-2007 by vgabndo]Paulina - 5-4-2007 at 07:46 PM
Our visitors usually don't question it when we tell them not to drink from the tap, but when it comes to putting toilet paper in the trash bin....
that's the topic they have a hard time swallowing.
P<,*)))><
Yep- Stolen directly from our National Park
thebajarunner - 5-4-2007 at 07:58 PM
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Originally posted by Packoderm
The water in San Francisco is some of the best water around. 85% of it is straight from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and the
remaining 15% is from rain runoff captured in reservoirs. The tap water in Davis Ca. is truly atrocious. I fell more thirsty after I drink it because
it rasps my throat.
The incredible audacity of SF- that great bastion of liberal thought and eco-everything- to place a dam in Yosemite National Park.
That is tantamount to encouraging Baja ranchers to cut down every boojum tree in Baja and use them all for fence material.
Shame on San Francisco!!
Shame
Shame
Shame!!!bajabound2005 - 5-4-2007 at 09:38 PM
BB1a - do you really want to know what that ice came from at our house from the G&Ts you just had???? Oh, that came from our fridge which is fed
from OH!!! agua purificada going to the fridge!!! Don't let "guests" scare you from what comes naturally to the rest of us! Just GO with it! Yes,
have bottled agua around in the bathrroms, bedrooms...they'll figure it for themselves. If not, have some flagyl handy for about a 2 week course.vgabndo - 5-5-2007 at 01:19 AM
Yo...Bajarunner:
You obviously have a political axe to grind, but before you cast too much of your shame on liberal eco-friendly San Francisco, please remember that
they still had horse-drawn street cars working when the UNITED STATES congress passed the Riker Act which authorized the damming of the Tuolumne
River.
IMO it is something of a stretch to blame an act of congress in 1913 on San Francisco liberals when everyone knows that Rush Limbaugh lobbied long
and hard for that dam.Barry A. - 5-5-2007 at 07:29 AM
On Hetch-Hetchy dam------------hind site is ALWAYS 20/20.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. For man-kind, water, and who has it, rules the world, and always will.
And I was a permanent Park Ranger for the NPS-------
"Runner", you need to broaden your perspective, I am thinking.
Another interesting view
beachbum1A - 5-5-2007 at 08:13 AM
Someone sent this to me and thought I'd share.....
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli ( E.coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey, beer or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process
of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop
Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of poop. bajabound2005 - 5-5-2007 at 08:40 AM
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Originally posted by lencho
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Originally posted by bajabound2005If not, have some flagyl handy for about a 2 week course.
Oh, yuck! What are people getting in Baja that requires flagyl?
--Larry
Giardia, mi amigo. Got it once in Puerta Vallarta but I think came from some ceviche (which I haven't been able to eat since). Hubby got it in Baja
once but we think that came from a tamale.DanO - 5-5-2007 at 09:37 AM
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Originally posted by beachbum1A
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli ( E.coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
I always knew that drinking water was bad for you. Now I have proof. Sheesh.beachbum1A - 5-5-2007 at 10:39 AM
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Originally posted by bajabound2005
BB1a - do you really want to know what that ice came from at our house from the G&Ts you just had???? Oh, that came from our fridge which is fed
from OH!!! agua purificada going to the fridge!!! Don't let "guests" scare you from what comes naturally to the rest of us! Just GO with it! Yes,
have bottled agua around in the bathrroms, bedrooms...they'll figure it for themselves. If not, have some flagyl handy for about a 2 week course.
A TWO WEEK course? Holy cow! Next time I think I'll bring my own ice or switch to beer! hahaCypress - 5-5-2007 at 03:01 PM
Not that I need an excuse to drink beer, but questionable water will do most anytime.capn.sharky - 5-5-2007 at 08:06 PM
" and a bad taco from Mc Lulu." I told you all that place was not good. I know lots of Mexicans that will not eat there. I sure won't and I've been
going to Loreto for 36 years. Nice lady, good conversation, bad kitchen.Sharksbaja - 5-7-2007 at 12:26 AM
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Originally posted by beachbum1A
you certainly don't want to cook with it!
Why? Does it taste that bad everywhere in Baja or is there another reason.. Are you aware that the most recommended method or treatment of purifying
any fresh water is to boil it. Cooking with it is paramount to the same if you reach anything over 212f. It is true that some bacteria have
higher thermal tolerances but they involve high protein processed food not just plain water. I've never heard this before. Please explain???? Thanks.beachbum1A - 5-7-2007 at 07:29 AM
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Originally posted by Hose A
None of the Mexicans households I am familiar with use city water to cook with.
Exactly my point!Hook - 5-7-2007 at 07:57 AM
Why say anything?
I never drink my tap water stateside and offer no excuse to my visitors.
I prefer water w/o chloroamines.Sharksbaja - 5-7-2007 at 03:26 PM
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Originally posted by Hose A
Boiling it will purify it but it will not take the dirt out.
The water goes off and on so often that there are days you can not do laundry with it and certainly can not cook with it.
None of the Mexicans households I am familiar with use city water to cook with.
Oh, now I get it. Yikes! bajalera - 5-8-2007 at 11:39 PM
Well I drink tap water from time to time. But I don't drink water from swimming pools, especially if it has a yellowish tinge.Cypress - 5-9-2007 at 11:51 AM
Water?It's good to wash with every now and then, but drinking it is another
story.
