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[*] posted on 7-28-2005 at 07:52 AM


Have been drinking the water in Tripui and Nopolo for 14 years and never got sick.:light:
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[*] posted on 7-28-2005 at 11:06 AM
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Experts on water. Here in Rosarito they get tap water. I don't like it because of the taste but it is fine to drink. We use purified water but the dogs only get the purified when we are traveling.
But when we are in the mountains, they won't touch the purified but go straight to the ponds and streams.
The people in these rural communities have been drinking this water all their lives. That's basically why the communities are there in fact. Many of these people live to be over 100 years old. And they still get around and garden and stuff!
Could it be the water?
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[*] posted on 7-28-2005 at 02:36 PM


by golly jr, I think you might have something there.;D
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[*] posted on 7-29-2005 at 01:19 PM


At home I am a volunteer certified water operator for our small system of 50+ homes and have a license with the state of Colorado. So when I was in Baja at our place in Santa Rosalia I naturally questioned some of the people about disinfection and filtration of the domestic water supply. The answer I got was that the water came from aquifers in San Jose and Agua Agueda and that disinfection consisted of a little chlorine. Chlorine has proven to be the most effective at killing giardia and cryptosporidium as well as most smaller bugs like e-coli and most viruses. So it seemed to me that they were doing a pretty good job by letting sands and gravel of the aquifer provide filtration and a little chlorine to kill the other stuff and you have water that is comprable with water from most places in the US. Now the problem is that I tested the water in lots of different locations and can not find any trace of chlorine even though the stuff I was using tests down to .01ppm. So, I suspect that if you really want to be safe, just add a few drops of clorox to your water tank, cistern, etc. and you should be fine.
As an aside note, I see that lots of water treatment places are springing up all over the place and they do a great job of filtration which takes out the big bugs like e-coli, giardia, and crypto, but does almost nothing for the viral bugs. So again just a little shot of clorox will kill most of that stuff and if you are using bottled water like a garafon, the chlorine will dissappear from taste detection usually within a day or so.
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