PSA: Water

BonsaiNut said:
Just to be clear... there's water and then there's "water".

Please don't drink that crappy 8.5 pH alkaline, high sodium, high ammonia Sh!t that comes out of the tap in SoCal and assume you are drinking water. If it kills carp at 10% strength, don't put it in your body. Use it to wash your clothes and maybe (if you like to live dangerously) to wash your dishes. Otherwise drink bottled spring water from a reputable source. Or, failing that, drink distilled water. Avoid "bottled water" product even if it comes from some place like Costco... since it is merely filtered tap water.

If you could see the difference between my crappy Moulton Niguel Water District water and my well water here in NC you'd be here already.
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Pollution aside, the ground material that the water comes out of plays a huge roll in its chemistry. Here the ground is made up of decomposited rock. There I am guessing that it is more clay-based?

That said, Ive always been super, duoer picky anout what I drink where water is concerned. Id never drink any water straight off the Earth (unless it was an emergency) no matter how "pure" it is. Filtered/purified water only, for me.
 
I know a gal who is "allergic" to the common minerals found in drinking water. Her condition was discovered early in life. Regular drinking water makes her ill, so she can only drink distilled water! :eek:
 
da big hills said:
I rarely thirst. Years ago I forced my self to drink H2O any time I stop either by gravity, or energy. It used to be gravity would force an unclip. Now I bet it will be the latter. I used to keep track on those stops. This is the only time I stop except to watch the sun dip below the horizon.
Happy drinks on the trail
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On space station they would get extra water from the space shuttle. That water is the exhaust from the fuel cells. Pure water, no taste, but the residents did not like it so we had to add salts to give it taste. We used to give distilled water to cells under the microscope and watch the cells explode. Osmosis would try and create = salts inside the cells and outside. The poor little suckers could not support that much extra water inside so the cell wall would burst.
Happy the laws of physics will not be violated on the single track trails
 
water+lemon+or vitamin C give a good citrus taste and is also healthy! lemon water the best way for perfect work of stomach vitamin C is one of the main immunostimulators. and don't be afraid. this vitamin can't accumulate. it goes every time when you go toilet
you can use powder or break capsules with your dose of the supplement. I prefer the last one, it's more comfortable in "field" conditions. but be careful!
 
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