Monthly Archives: August 2014

How safe is your water?

To harvest rain water or use water from the public water supply – what to do? According to a recent article in the New York Times, which mentions the trouble with the Silver Lake reservoir near Los Angeles California, public … Continue reading

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Microcystin removal by slow sand water filtration

Will a slow sand filter take out microcystin toxins more effectively than conventional water filtration (rapid sand filtration) ? It appears as though the answer is yes: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12203961  (information is in the abstract; access to the entire document requires a … Continue reading

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What if the public water system becomes unusable?

What would you do if you found out that the public water system had been contaminated by powerful toxins that could not be removed by boiling? Setting up a rain barrel or two might be a good idea. Incidentally, according … Continue reading

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