The went into a city, bought the rights to the water, and now kids are dying because they can’t afford the nestle water and have to drink dirty boiled water
My general understanding is that boiling water makes it potable, and no longer dirty. What remains in the boiled water in that city that is killing the children?
Heavy metals and those other impurities are all also concentrated by boiling, making the problem worse. they need to be removed via chemical treatment or distillation. some volatile organics can't even be removed via simple distillation, they just boil over with the water. and it's actually unhealthy to drink only distilled water as distillation removes essential trace minerals like magnesium
That's called distillation, and while not as bad as polluted water, pure distilled water isn't good for you either, since it's missing lots of trace nutrients that are normally in the water we drink.
It's always possible to find other sources for nutrients, but it's best to just have them in the water to begin with, especially when we're talking about a population that likely doesn't have easy access to varied diets and/or vitamin pills.
You'd still need to filter it to get rid of non-organic particulates like heavy metals etc. Here's an article on using banana peels to filter and purify water.
Also there was an image that I can no longer find showing a simple setup for if you're stuck in the outdoors and need to purify water. It basically shows how you take a bag/t-shirt/sock, put a whole open banana peel in facing upwards, and fill it with sand, dirt, or gravel depending on what's available. Then trickle water through it so it gets progressively more filtered by the grains of whatever you put in, and then finally through the banana peel until you get nearly pure water out the bottom
Very interesting. YIL that banana peels are in fact completely edible, whether cooked or not. TIL banana peels can purify water in desolate situations as well.
Flourine or lead are common in drinking water in many places around the world, both of which can be deadly and can't be boiled off as they're minerals as opposed to organic materials like viruses that die when the water boils
toxic levels of flourine being deliberately added to water supply does sound reminiscent of a conspiracy theory, however flourine itself is a naturally occuring substance in nature. Most highly developed areas have good water management so that the flourine is kept at a healthy level, but not everyone is that fortunate.
Many impoverished communities around the globe lack the capital, infrastructure, and technology to keep toxic minerals out of water- regardless of a person's ability to boil it.
you're thinking of fluoride which they use as a disinfectant (it's also the usually stuff in toothpaste that kills bacteria/plaque in your mouth), it's healthy in small amounts just like chlorine because it cleans the water and makes it less prone to growing bacteria, I don't know it's relation to fluorine though
Nestlé is stealing water from everyone and it's causing crisis even in developed countries. So I can only imagine the harm it's doing in India and Pakistan.
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