The strange thing is that I used to test water for a living, selling water filtration systems. I live in a large city and the water is very safe. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have some unpleasant stuff in it. They don’t have filters to get the chemicals from medications out of our water, as far as I know no one has that. There’s also more chlorine in our water than I would prefer, but that can be solved by letting water sit in open air for a few hours, the chlorine will off-gas and the smell is better then compared to out of the tap. Oh and our water comes from a river and thus is a bit harder than it might be.
I drink a lot of water as part of cutting back on smoking and dealing with side effects from medications, and most of it is tap water. The thing is that all the bottled water in my area is tap water from some source within 100 miles of here, it’s no better. It tastes better out of a bottle because you can’t smell it. I want to get a reverse osmosis system, because that makes really clean water. They’re expensive though, and I’m not sure I want to make that investment.
The air is relatively clean, I live in one of the states with the cleanest air in the country. I live in the city though, a few miles away from a coal power plant. That increases my lung cancer risk somewhat, as does the occasional smog. Oh and there are a few refineries within 10 miles of my house. It’s a pretty wet area though (especially this time of year.) The rain mitigates the risks somewhat. I also get out to the country as often as possible.
I still test water for swimming pools, so I’m aware of what the chemical makeup of our tap water is pretty well, as well as the sorts of things that get into water in the summer. Mostly it’s nitrates, if it gets too hot (which it likely will) there will be dangerous algea blooms. They actually have to close lakes in our area usually a few weeks to a month a year. It’s expected.
At the moment I’m a full time student/academic. I might be doing some research soon, it would serve my goal of getting into graduate school. My associates is in Psychology, and I’m doing a double major in psychology and computer science for my Bachelor’s of Science (it’s a double science major at my school, some schools consider Pscyhology a liberal arts degree.) Anyway, this semester I’m not doing much other work, 16 hours of courseload in sciences is much more academic work than I thought, 17 if you include a two day one credit hour course I already finished.
I spent a fair bit of my 20s trying to find a career. The water filter sales thing was during the time period I was trying to be a salesman, back before the divorce and the struggle began with suicidality. I was too honest to be a salesman(for the types of people that I worked for) though, and I value stability too highly.
Savior from what dimension, that I praise to you, in ultimate.
Like, the giant, to the snake, but, yet, still got some moves left, in me.
That’s right, it’s just you, and I, and nothing can stop us, now.
Oh, grace, to this, glory.
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The strange thing is that I used to test water for a living, selling water filtration systems. I live in a large city and the water is very safe. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have some unpleasant stuff in it. They don’t have filters to get the chemicals from medications out of our water, as far as I know no one has that. There’s also more chlorine in our water than I would prefer, but that can be solved by letting water sit in open air for a few hours, the chlorine will off-gas and the smell is better then compared to out of the tap. Oh and our water comes from a river and thus is a bit harder than it might be.
I drink a lot of water as part of cutting back on smoking and dealing with side effects from medications, and most of it is tap water. The thing is that all the bottled water in my area is tap water from some source within 100 miles of here, it’s no better. It tastes better out of a bottle because you can’t smell it. I want to get a reverse osmosis system, because that makes really clean water. They’re expensive though, and I’m not sure I want to make that investment.
The air is relatively clean, I live in one of the states with the cleanest air in the country. I live in the city though, a few miles away from a coal power plant. That increases my lung cancer risk somewhat, as does the occasional smog. Oh and there are a few refineries within 10 miles of my house. It’s a pretty wet area though (especially this time of year.) The rain mitigates the risks somewhat. I also get out to the country as often as possible.
I still test water for swimming pools, so I’m aware of what the chemical makeup of our tap water is pretty well, as well as the sorts of things that get into water in the summer. Mostly it’s nitrates, if it gets too hot (which it likely will) there will be dangerous algea blooms. They actually have to close lakes in our area usually a few weeks to a month a year. It’s expected.
I have some questions for You : how old are You? What do you do for a living?
I’m 31 years old this year.
At the moment I’m a full time student/academic. I might be doing some research soon, it would serve my goal of getting into graduate school. My associates is in Psychology, and I’m doing a double major in psychology and computer science for my Bachelor’s of Science (it’s a double science major at my school, some schools consider Pscyhology a liberal arts degree.) Anyway, this semester I’m not doing much other work, 16 hours of courseload in sciences is much more academic work than I thought, 17 if you include a two day one credit hour course I already finished.
I spent a fair bit of my 20s trying to find a career. The water filter sales thing was during the time period I was trying to be a salesman, back before the divorce and the struggle began with suicidality. I was too honest to be a salesman(for the types of people that I worked for) though, and I value stability too highly.
Savior from what dimension, that I praise to you, in ultimate.
Like, the giant, to the snake, but, yet, still got some moves left, in me.
That’s right, it’s just you, and I, and nothing can stop us, now.
Oh, grace, to this, glory.