Current Events > Silicon Valley dipshits are hyping up something called raw water.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html

SAN FRANCISCO At Rainbow Grocery, a cooperative in this citys Mission District, one brand of water is so popular that its often out of stock. But one recent evening, there was a glittering rack of it: glass orbs containing 2.5 gallons of what is billed as raw water unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, $36.99 each and $14.99 per refill, bottled and marketed by a small company called Live Water.

It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms the flavor profile, said Kevin Freeman, a shift manager at the store. Bottled waters controversial. Weve curtailed our water selection. But this is totally outside that whole realm.
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Mr. Battle poured himself a glass. The water from the tap just doesnt taste quite as refreshing, he said. Now is that because I saw it come off the roof, and anything from the roof feels special? Maybe.

The most prominent proponent of raw water is Doug Evans, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. After his juicing company, Juicero, collapsed in September, he went on a 10-day cleanse, drinking nothing but Live Water. I havent tasted tap water in a long time, he said.

Before he could order raw water on demand, Mr. Evans went spring hunting with friends. This has become more challenging lately: The closest spring around San Francisco has recently been cut off by landslides, so reaching it means crossing private property, which he does under cover of night.

You have to be agile and tactile, and be available to experiment, he said. Literally, you have to carry bottles of water through the dark.
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Pure water can be obtained by using a reverse osmosis filter, the gold standard of home water treatment, but for Mr. Singh, the goal is not pristine water, per se. Youre going to get 99 percent of the bad stuff out, he said. But now you have dead water.

He said real water should expire after a few months. His does. It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery, he said. If it sits around too long, itll turn green. People dont even realize that because all their waters dead, so they never see it turn green.

Mr. Singh believes that public water has been poisoned. Tap water? Youre drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them, he said. Chloramine, and on top of that theyre putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but its a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health. (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.)
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Fluoride? Its a deathly toxic chemical, said Vanessa Kuemmerle of Emeryville, Calif., who does landscape design for large tech companies. She said she was an early adopter of raw water, and has noticed many of her clients following suit.

Theyre health-conscious people that understand the bigger picture of whats going on, she said. Everyones looking for an edge: nootropics, Bulletproof coffee, [Antifar's note: please look this up] better water.

The health benefits she reported include better skin and the need to drink less water. My skins plumper, she said. And I feel like Im getting better nutrition from the food I eat.

In the community of tap-water skeptics, many talk about water the way others might about fine wine.

My friends who drink spring water, when they come over now theyre like, Oh yeah, give me the good stuff, said Amanda Thompson, a writer in San Francisco. The consciousness around water is changing.

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Why are these people so horrible it's crazy
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It's tap water lol

Ah, to be rich and stupid.
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It's only conservatives that are anti science though!
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It's like paying $100+ extra for jeans that already have holes worn in them.

Except you're paying 300% the price in order to get sick.
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Cali is full of weirdos
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BVanQH6Mw
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jfc
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Mr. Singh believes that public water has been poisoned. Tap water? Youre drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them, he said. Chloramine, and on top of that theyre putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but its a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health. (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.)


this is true, though
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Just pour tap water and take a shit in it.. Much cheaper
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a42ozslushie posted...

It's only conservatives that are anti science though!

what does this have to do with conservatives?
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I had to keep checking to make sure I wasn't reading the onion, those people are insane.
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a42ozslushie posted...

It's only conservatives that are anti science though!

a42ozslushie posted...

Mr. Singh believes that public water has been poisoned. Tap water? Youre drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them, he said. Chloramine, and on top of that theyre putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but its a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health. (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.)

this is true, though

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A lot of people where I live have signs in their front yards (and in the neighborhood parks) that say "Raw or Well water used here."

I never really got it. Is that an advertisement for thirsty people to knock on your door for a drink of water, or is it just to show off? I never really understood people who go nuts about this alleged "water shortage."

Last time I checked, the world was 3/4 water, so we should pretty much be good. We can just built desalination and purification plants. Problem solved.
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I also want to note that this guy
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/03/dining/03Water3/03Water3-superJumbo.jpg

Is choosing to go by the name Mukhande Singh
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So let me get this straight

I can get 5 gallons of water for a water cooler for like $2.50

Or half that amount for $36.00 first purchase, and $14.00 thereafter.

Lmfao
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Bio1590 posted...

So let me get this straight

I can get 5 gallons of water for a water cooler for like $2.50

Or half that amount for $36.00 first purchase, and $14.00 thereafter.

Lmfao

But this water will turn green in a month
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--kresnik-- posted...

A lot of people where I live have signs in their front yards (and in the neighborhood parks) that say "Raw or Well water used here."

I never really got it. Is that an advertisement for thirsty people to knock on your door for a drink of water, or is it just to show off? I never really understood people who go nuts about this alleged "water shortage."

Last time I checked, the world was 3/4 water, so we should pretty much be good. We can just built desalination and purification plants. Problem solved.

They've literally drained entire aquifers in the middle east that will never be replenished
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LMFAO at city slickers, get a well.
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Antifar posted...

I also want to note that this guy
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/03/dining/03Water3/03Water3-superJumbo.jpg

Is choosing to go by the name Mukhande Singh

His real name is probably Steve lmao
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Antifar posted...

Bio1590 posted...

So let me get this straight

I can get 5 gallons of water for a water cooler for like $2.50

Or half that amount for $36.00 first purchase, and $14.00 thereafter.

Lmfao

But this water will turn green in a month

shit I can get them some green water in like a week, think these loons will pay me 36 bucks for it? lol
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Vaati_Reborn posted...

Antifar posted...

Bio1590 posted...

So let me get this straight

I can get 5 gallons of water for a water cooler for like $2.50

Or half that amount for $36.00 first purchase, and $14.00 thereafter.

Lmfao

But this water will turn green in a month

shit I can get them some green water in like a week, think these loons will pay me 36 bucks for it? lol

if not just add blockchain to your company's name
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Metua posted...

a42ozslushie posted...

It's only conservatives that are anti science though!

a42ozslushie posted...

Mr. Singh believes that public water has been poisoned. Tap water? Youre drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them, he said. Chloramine, and on top of that theyre putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but its a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health. (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.)

this is true, though

Lol ikr

Anyway this is like peak silicon Valley dipshit. Remember that thing earlier this yr with dudes trying to 'replace' bodegas and small stores with this zany new invention... It was a vending machine
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Bio1590 posted...

They've literally drained entire aquifers in the middle east that will never be replenished

Yeah but once we master the art of desalination, the oceans will sustain us forever and ever. /mild sarcasm
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Antifar posted...

unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water,

Uhhh, don't plenty of bottled water brands have this. From springs that are, well, tested for safety?

And this shit turns green? Sounds like the water from a spring leading into a waterfall near my family's lake house we used to drink as kids before any pollution. The idea was that it was just cold fresh water near a little island we used to camp at there. It was fine to drink and all natural, but still had shit any fresh water is gonna have like plant and fish waste.

Sounds like what's happening here tbh. Idiots are just assuming fresh means clean. If you told them what was in the water that made it "live" they'd probably fucking sue, even if it's harmless.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

Anyway this is like peak silicon Valley dipshit. Remember that thing earlier this yr with dudes trying to 'replace' bodegas and small stores with this zany new invention... It was a vending machine

I love that the Juicero guy is in this story
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I wonder how long before someone acquires a nasty case of diarrhea from drinking that "pure" water, tho <_<
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california was a mistake
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TheMikh posted...

california was a mistake

Humanity was a mistake
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Huh, and all this time I've been drinking rainwater for free. Silly me.
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Antifar posted...

I also want to note that this guy
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/03/dining/03Water3/03Water3-superJumbo.jpg

Is choosing to go by the name Mukhande Singh

lmao
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raw water doesn't taste good. If you ever tried tasting rain water, it's really sour and acidic
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Antifar posted...

Fluoride? Its a deathly toxic chemical, said Vanessa Kuemmerle of Emeryville, Calif., who does landscape design for large tech companies. She said she was an early adopter of raw water, and has noticed many of her clients following suit.

This is why everyone who drinks tap water is currently dead.

What a stupid bitch.
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I joined the military

I guess it was the tap water that made me do it

/s
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a42ozslushie posted...

It's only conservatives that are anti science though!

https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop/
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Nor Cal needs to be its own state.

The South needs to secede. We'll take the middle too, and the north be annexed into Oregon like they've always wanted.
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just wait till these dudes start dropping from all the naegleria fowleri theyre ingesting theyll be changing their tunes real quick
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I didn't see the NYTimes link and thought that was obvious satire and I was about to berate everyone in this thread for falling for a joke. I mean really, the Juicero guy being in this is just too much.
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Why drink filtered tap water that cleans your teeth when you could drink dirty raw water that might have those brain-eating bacteria in it? >_>
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This is why more people need to listen in high school chemistry
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This is what happens when society abandons God.
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Smooth mouth feel was my nickname in prison
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Metua posted...

Ah, to be rich and stupid.

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lmao

hockeybub89 posted...

Antifar posted...

Fluoride? Its a deathly toxic chemical, said Vanessa Kuemmerle of Emeryville, Calif., who does landscape design for large tech companies. She said she was an early adopter of raw water, and has noticed many of her clients following suit.

This is why everyone who drinks tap water is currently dead.

What a stupid bitch.

You realize something can be toxic to your health and NOT kill you, right?

It's my understanding it's not even the correct form of flouride supposedly so beneficial for teeth that is used in municipal treatment (even knowledgable dentists say this). It's supposedly basically waste flouride that they used to have to pay to dispose of but now idiots pay for it to be dumped in their peoples water.

Regardless, our tap water is full of so much garbage (even the chlorine they use to sterilise interacts with all the other crap in water). You can't even rely on springs and such either since our whole ecosystem is messed up with pollution.

Deep underground you may find some clean water untouched by the filthy hand of mankind. LOL
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tote_all posted...

@NeonOctopus posted...

brain-eating bacteria

Oh, do tell?

I in no way support this nonsense, I just want to hear more of this brain-eating bacteria.

Certain lakes and shit have brain eating amoeba that swim around in the water. There's usually signs that say not to drink or submerge your mouth and nose in it.

I'm so paranoid of lakes and stuff after learning that >_>
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