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Brice

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:04:19 -0400, wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:43:58 -0400, Nancy Young >
>wrote:
>
>>> Nothing more pure than rain water.

That's it.

>>Even acid rain?
>>
>>> I even used to collect it in buckets during a hard rain to water
>>> my vegetable garden. So much better than city water.
>>
>>I've thought of getting a rain barrel but never did.
>>
>>nancy
>
>A rain barrel is fine for watering plants but not good for
>consumption... rain water contains all sorts of chemicals and water in
>a barrel is stagnent so quickly becomes polluted with all sorts of
>organisms.

Half the Australian countryside lives off rain water. You have to be
aware of certain things, but otherwise it's better water than town
water.

*This was another misinformation brought to you by Sheldon the
Ignorant.*