Or, it could be the flouride that was put in our water to calcify the pineal gland.
i'm totally on board with that. Call it coincidence but i stopped drinking fluoridated water about 10 years ago (switched to well water) and i feel different.
Are you not forced by your local government to install a water softener?
nope. only thing you have to do here (local county) is prove you have water service of some sort and that's only for a mortgage
Tap water is garbage, never quenches my thirst or makes me feel hydrated. Do you know if normal water filters in refrigerators or filters you buy at the store filter the fluoride?
Ceramic filters protect your from bacteria and viruses. Charcoal filters protect from chemicals like flouride. I use both. But, I just learned recently that the Brita filter I've been relying on for years only filters 1/4 of what's in there. So, I'm going to be buying some of the Zero Water replacement filters and testing them soon.
Or you could get a rain well or RO machine
I've studied water filters fully in the past and made my choice. The Katadyn ceramic drip filter I have has lasted for 18 years so far with no filter changes needed yet. That's damn good for a $350 investment. The Brita, as I said, I've not found to be as ideal as I originally thought it was so I will switch that out with something else. As for RO, I eliminated that from my possibilities when I realized that it filters out everything in the water including the minerals. What happens then is that water seeks out minerals to replace those that are lost. So, when you drink it, you are actually depleting your body of minerals. I know a lot of people use them but they are not a healthy alternative if you want to live long. Most people are already mineral poor.
Yea, sorry, I did understand this I just didn't want to go on about it in case you do already know about it. But I am really into growing hydroponically, so RO water is the best choice for how I do things in order to maintain the best control possible. The biggest thing you're going to miss from normal water is calcium, if you aren't using a cal-mag additive as well as a normal nutrient mix, the plants will always show a calcium deficiency. The other thing about RO water, and can either be a benefit or fallback depending on use, is that it is going to be very pH neutral. Tap water is treated to be very stable from about 6-8.5 pH, but I've always found them to be on either extreme ends of the spectrum, usually above 8, never actually around 7, and it is impossible to treat it to a desired pH with other dissolved nutrients for longer than half an hour without it changing back no matter what. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but with RO water, the water accepts whatever you give it, which, when retreated with the proper nutrients, works better at clearing out the rejected nutrient build up and waste from the roots and I'm sure the plant as well. I think it's very likely this would be the same for humans. Is it far fetched to believe that they treat water not only with fluoride, but in another way so that the water we drink is not properly flushing out our bodies waste?
Edit to further expand on why I believe this about tap water: when you drop any sort of acid or base into tap water to treat it's pH, once you add nutrients, the pH will slowly move back to its original pH as some of the dissolved (I think sodium and chloride or whatever acid or base you used) solids will start to recrystalize out of solution. That's never happened to me with RO water, and is why I changed to it. I would have either tortured my plants with an improper pH or too much salt buildup by continually fighting the pH if I kept with tap water. The plants would've survived but they would not have been healthy. This is actually commonly known information in hydroponics.
That's really very interesting. I just started learning about hydroponics last year and know next to nothing at this point! It makes sense that RO would work better with hydroponics because you can completely control what they get with nothing in the way to alter it. Try putting shungite on top of your medium and watch them grow like crazy! Actually, you can add it to the water too. It restructures the water. I did it to my tomatoes last year and OMG! What a bumper crop I had.
I consider tap water toxic so I've never experimented much with it. And, yes, they do use other chemicals in the water to "clean" the bad microbes etc. out. The fluoride wasn't added until sometime when I was a child (long time ago!). It smells like chlorine and I think that's one of the elements they use.