Rain Water, Raw Water!

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Permalink Reply by Kara on December 12, 2007 at 9:43pm

They make us pay for the land but no man owns the sky.
Don't let the FDA here about this. Soon enough their going to be charging us for rain.

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Permalink Reply by Neens on December 13, 2007 at 3:08am

Not using rain water really is a wasted opportunity here in the UK, lol! I really want to give this a try - I live in South East Devon, so hopefully the rain will be fairly clean here. I didn't manage to find the thread on Gone Raw, could you post the link, Chris? Thanks for starting this great discussion! :oD

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Permalink Reply by Chris Carlton on December 13, 2007 at 4:01am

Here is a link to the goneraw post...

http://www.goneraw.com/forums/2/topics/2319

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Permalink Reply by Sunny on December 13, 2007 at 4:44am

Hey great idea, but didn't the rain get heated to get it up there in the first place?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Carlton on December 13, 2007 at 2:41pm

hmmm?

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Permalink Reply by Sunny on December 13, 2007 at 3:17pm

Well, I wondered what temperature is required to get water vapour to go into the atmosphere where it condenses as clouds...

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Permalink Reply by Raw by Default on December 20, 2007 at 9:44pm

I doubt there is any such thing as "raw water". At some point, a water molecule would have been heated. But since there aren't any enzymes in pure water, I don't see much of a problem in having my water "cooked". As long as it's on the alkaline side, I'm good.

Personally, I wouldn't drink our rainwater. We have a lot of smog here. If it's been sunny for a while, you can see the pollution stuck around the mountains like a brown blanket. After it rains, the air is clear and clean. It would seem that the rain takes in the pollution as it falls.

But if you're in a location where you don't have that problem, go for it! It's a lot cheaper than bottled water.

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Permalink Reply by Emma on December 22, 2007 at 3:19pm

This is really interesting, I think I'll try it. I live in Scotland so there's an abundance of rain here!

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Permalink Reply by Littlepurplegoth on December 22, 2007 at 5:45pm

Hmm - interesting idea. But where exactly in the water treatment process is the water heated? Other than by the sun, anyway :-)

WRT flouride in water - some areas are naturally higher anyway (basically the harder the water, the higher the level of natural flouride). But in the UK the data on addition of flouride is available from your local water company (mine has its info via http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/index.php?sectionid=172&parentid=172 on a postcode finder)

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Permalink Reply by Emma on December 23, 2007 at 11:14am

I just checked out Scottish Water, apparently they don't add fluoride to water in Scotland.

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Permalink Reply by Tor on February 4, 2008 at 12:28pm

The water is heated via solar thermal energy in a stainless steel vessel.

This process basically makes clouds in a controlled environment and then makes it rain. Again, in a controlled environment.

The water is called Solar Rain.

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Permalink Reply by Sharon on December 22, 2007 at 6:00pm

What an excellent idea - like all the best things, it's so simple I keep wondering why on earth I'd not thought about it before! Well done Chris! I'm looking forward to hearing how you get on - and I'll think about doing the same, down here in Brighton! Although if they go ahead with building that wretched incinerator along the coast, I may reconsider!

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