Is it good to drink rain water?
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Erm its evaporated water off the ground, so just think, would you drink water off the street? Or prehaps from the alley behind ** house?
'Normally you could drink rainwater without becoming ill. However, rainwater contains pollutants, soil, plant parts, insect parts, bacteria, algae, and sometimes radioactive materials that the rain/snow has washed out of the air. If filtered with one of the filtering systems that you can buy in stores nowadays, and then boiled, you could probably drink the water safely. However, it is safer yet to get your water from municipal water supplies or from wells that are frequently tested.'
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no its full of particles such as pollutants, dust etc.
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Just use a standard evaporation/distillation process to remove any pollutants and you can drink nearly any water.
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Try it and then report back on OcUK
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Not really, tho I'm not sure why....
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Well it is better than drinking nothing at all but no, you shouldn't really drink rainwater without purification of some sort, if nothing else boil it before you drink it to make it a little better.
It evaporated, thus leaving behind all the crap that was originally contaminating it.
Just drink it.
LOL nearly all rain is acid rain nowadays tbh
thought you'd prefer it boiled