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Rain Water Unsafe to Drink

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Yeah. In India, we were advised not to bathe in the first rains when we were children. It was said to create boils.
After a few spells of rain, it was considered OK.
People somehow, knew that (without recourse to any scientific study).
 
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Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
When an article has self contradicting claims I liked to check them out with other sources. If PFA's are truly forever chemicals they should have little to no effect cancer wise on a person And that seems to be the case. This is the first trustworthy article that I found:

PFAS Exposure and Risk of Cancer.

It appears that there may be a tie between people that work at such plants and the surrounding communities, but it is not obvious. One always has to remember that there is often a normal baseline rate for cancers. And unless it is something like smoking it can be hard to definitely blame an effect for only one cause.

Frankly, I am pretty sure that they do detect those chemicals in our rainwater, and I do not want them there myself. But that does not necessarily mean that rainwater is not safe to drink.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth, scientists say

There are unsafe PFAS chemicals in rainwater, and it is therefore no longer drinkable.

I remember a while back when there was some margarine commercial which featured an actress playing "Mother Nature." She would say "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" and cause thunder to rumble.

If there really such an entity or being representing "Mother Nature," then she'd probably have a good reason to be mad at us - and not just because of the margarine commercials.
 

stvdv

Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
If there really such an entity or being representing "Mother Nature," then she'd probably have a good reason to be mad at us
Good mother "is" not mad at her children, but she might act out "as if she is mad"
That's what I call "our self created karmic reactions, biting us in the ***"
Dharma protects those that protect Dharma..the others...karma
 

England my lionheart

Rockerjahili Rebel
Premium Member
In New Zealand outside of towns rainwater collected in the gutters goes through a filter into a tank,the rest of the water comes from a bore hole,never had a problem drinking it.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Yeah. In India, we were advised not to bathe in the first rains when we were children. It was said to create boils.
After a few spells of rain, it was considered OK.
People somehow, knew that (without recourse to any scientific study).
Yeah but that would be because of dust in the air at the end of the dry season and accumulations of dirt (rust, other metal oxides, bird and rat droppings etc) in or on the rainwater collecting system.

I guarantee it was not some ancient folk wisdom about PFAS.;)
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
When an article has self contradicting claims I liked to check them out with other sources. If PFA's are truly forever chemicals they should have little to no effect cancer wise on a person And that seems to be the case. This is the first trustworthy article that I found:

PFAS Exposure and Risk of Cancer.

It appears that there may be a tie between people that work at such plants and the surrounding communities, but it is not obvious. One always has to remember that there is often a normal baseline rate for cancers. And unless it is something like smoking it can be hard to definitely blame an effect for only one cause.

Frankly, I am pretty sure that they do detect those chemicals in our rainwater, and I do not want them there myself. But that does not necessarily mean that rainwater is not safe to drink.
Agreed. Apart from anything else, my understanding is that conventional municipal water treatment systems have no means of removing PFAS. So if they are in the rain they are in the lakes, rivers and reservoirs and they are in our tap water anyway. So far as I know, nobody is yet telling us we can't drink tap water. Though there are some emerging concerns about it:
Concern over toxic chemicals in tap water
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Yeah. In India, we were advised not to bathe in the first rains when we were children. It was said to create boils.
After a few spells of rain, it was considered OK.
People somehow, knew that (without recourse to any scientific study).
Just wondering how you would bathe in rainwater anyway unless it collected in a muddy pool or river.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
PFAS were not in use in 1947.
the rivers and other water supplies may not have been "protected." All sorts of things may have been dumped in the rivers and pools. Almost like in the U.S. but maybe not quite.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Yeah but that would be because of dust in the air at the end of the dry season and accumulations of dirt (rust, other metal oxides, bird and rat droppings etc) in or on the rainwater collecting system.

I guarantee it was not some ancient folk wisdom about PFAS.;)
So, ... who to blame? Mankind? The "elements"? God? Who? People -- and the list goes on and on.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Just wondering how you would bathe in rainwater anyway unless it collected in a muddy pool or river.
Muddy pool also is OK. One goes home and has a second bath with clean water. For most that is not necessary. In my time, things were cleaner, even muddy pools.
Even better when you stand in the courtyard of your house with a drain on the first floor roof pouring a thick stream of rain water on you. We had one such in our house. Of course, after two days of rain.
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"India bathing in rain" - Google Search
 
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Valjean

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Premium Member
PFAS? Meh....
When was water drained off your roof ever safe for anything but irrigation?
Birds perch on roofs. They're not roof-broken.
 
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