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sandee_eggo t1_j5sk7tv wrote

Isn’t rainwater very clean? I mean, it’s distilled! Why buy a $5000 filtration machine? You just need a tank. A cistern. A personal dam.

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inkwater OP t1_j5sowf8 wrote

It's probably cleaner in various open places, and certainly cleaner than the public water supply when it's falling directly from the sky into a cistern. However, I wouldn't trust any rainwater for my own drinking water in a metropolitan area because there's so much garbage in the air now. The toxins from vaping and cigarettes, for example. I want that filtered out.

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TigBiddiesMacDaddy t1_j5sujz8 wrote

Nestle launched a successful lobbying campaign to outlaw collecting rain water. Nestle is pure evil, and I wish I was being hyperbolic

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Johnclark77 t1_j5t6vwk wrote

Nothing new for them, look up what they did with baby formula back in the 1970s.

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Wondershock t1_j5u07fj wrote

Rainwater is not very clean because of nucleation. Water vapor in the atmosphere will cluster around dust particles in the process of becoming rain, bringing down whatever pollutants/contaminants are up there.

So it can vary—if you’re near farmland there’s a strong chance your rainwater is non-palatable or even carcinogenic.

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sandee_eggo t1_j5u0f88 wrote

I mean, we’re just trying to flush toilets with it.

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Wondershock t1_j5ufl6t wrote

I understand that. I'm responding to you calling it "very clean" and suggesting it is so because it's "distilled."

Flushing and non-potable uses are great, but I never implied it wasn't suitable as greywater.

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pistoffcynic t1_j5u1iar wrote

When it’s coming down, yes it is. However, if you collect it off the roof, for example, there is bird poop that can contaminate the supply. Depending upon how your cistern is built, it could contain mold spores.

Water recycling had been used for space travel, had it not?

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zendick1 t1_j5v7riq wrote

rain forms on particulates, its not clean

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