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beachbum1A
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How to explain our water to visitors
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?
Just do it!
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DENNIS
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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."
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vandenberg
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Here in Loreto I drink the water out of the tap all the time without any effects. Maybe castiron stomach  
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DanO
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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.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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Cypress
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Water is good to wash in, but drinking it is another story. 
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BajaWarrior
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| Quote: | 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!
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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!
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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David K
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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!
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Capt. George
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tell them it's poison, they'll stay home!
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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Packoderm
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Tell them that Mexicans have worked very hard to be able to live free from the tyranny of environmentalists.
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vgabndo
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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.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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oxxo
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| Quote: | 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.
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Packoderm
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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.
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oxxo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
I don't drink out of swimming pools. Chlorine is disgusting and makes me sick.
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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.
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vgabndo
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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]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Paulina
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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.
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thebajarunner
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Yep- Stolen directly from our National Park
| Quote: | 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
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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!!!
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bajabound2005
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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.
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vgabndo
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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.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Barry A.
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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.
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beachbum1A
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Another interesting view
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.
Just do it!
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