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March 16, 2005
Back to Nature for Potable Water
Well it would take no other than Mother Earth News to publish "Harvest the Rain", an article they adapted from Evironmental Building News, which suggests that rainwater is the purest and cheapest source of potable water that exists.
"All water is rainwater," rainwater systems enthusiast and author Richard Heinichen is fond of saying. And indeed, he's right: All our water, whether sucked from an aquifer, river or well, or harvested from a rooftop, once was cloud-borne.
Captured before it hits the ground, rainwater is free of many pollutants that plague surface and underground water supplies and, according to the Texas Water Development Board, "almost always exceeds [the quality] of ground or surface water."
Well all of this is true, and certainly if we all are concerned about our water supply, collecting rainwater for drinking, or for all uses besides drinking is a logical environmentally smart way to conserve other water sources
Posted by Stephen Betheil at March 16, 2005 05:42 PM
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