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by jebeng
1892 days ago
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I think from ground water trace elements like lead are more likely. In my experience when I've been in places where groundwater was the household source via electronic pump, it's always been a case where you weren't supposed to drink it. And either had a reverse osmosis machine near by to use to fill bottles, or you just relied on store bought bottled water for drinking and cooking. It would be interesting if in your cases it was high deuterium water though. It's not something I ever considered really. Of course when straight groundwater is your best or only option, that's a hell of a lot better than having no source of plausibly safe water available. I've drank lake water where we would just disinfect it with a few drops of bleach for a couple of weeks when on trips. But was always told that this is a short term solution for convenience. |
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The wells here are typically 50m+ meters deep, so if you have a 1 inch connection that's more than 25 litres just sitting in the pipe. For longevity you don't want to run the pump every time you turn on the tap, so there's usually a pressurised tank with another 25L or so and a pressure controlled switch in the pump.
So if you want to get 'fresh' water you first need to run 50L through the system. There's also the issue of extra minerals - the water here has a lot of iron, which turns everything red unless you have a good filter. The filters will have a low flow rate, so you need another tank to store the filtered water. Much easier to just get a RO system or bottled water for drinking :-)
50m of earth is going to produce some of the cleanest water you've ever had, unless of course there is pollution from heavy industry nearby. I know a few people who collect water daily from springs and drink that as is. If you lookup DIY water purification systems they typically have one plastic tank filled with sand and another with charcoal which filters pretty much all of the stuff out you don't want to drink.