I learned more about water from this 10 and a half minute video than i did in 17 years of public education and then 12 more in the wild. Good stuff my guy, big preesh 💪🏿

Thoroughly researched, concise, taught me more about water in 10 minutes than I've learned in 10 years, mad props bro🥇✨

Water treatment professional here. I’ve been working in water treatment since my times in the nuclear navy and have 14 years in water treatment. Everything from pre-treatment to wastewater. This was a great video and pretty informative. Many people don’t know the actual process of how water is cleaned up for municipalities and the Reverse osmosis process and what it all entails. Reverse osmosis is fairly wasteful in general though. If you’re just making purer water, typically and on average, for every 1 gallon of water being used, 75% will only be usable. And that’s solely dependent upon the reverse osmosis design; the design pressure, array (configuration of the vessels), cross flow, membrane type, temperature of incoming water and water quality just to name a few. Many places that use boilers for steam generation use RO WATER to improve water quality, reduce fuel, and water chemical costs. Beverage industries like Niagara water or Dasani use technologies that allow for 90% of the water to be usable (if not more ) This was a great video and look forward to more. Keep up the great work !

- I mentioned the privilege it is to even discuss options, if you're compelled to give to folks who lack decent water at all, I've heard good things about www.charitywater.org/. - Also, if you're curious if there's a spring near you, try: findaspring.com - Also, @3:00 should've used the word "diffusion" here, not "osmosis".

bruh why am i learning more from you than from my highschool

In my house you'd get a glass of water straight from my tap, with ice from my countertop ice maker. My tap and ice maker is fed by a regularly maintained reverse osmosis filter. What's funny is, my family has always maintained reverse osmosis systems for drinking and cooking. In my teens I started liking refrigerated tap water dispenser from our refrigerator. But then something funny happened. I went to Colorado, ignoring the if giardia, I was in the mountains and drank straight from a cool glacial stream and was shocked. It tasted like certain bottled waters and the reverse osmosis. It took me around 5 years of living on my own before my city tap water quality declined so noticably, I started investing in reverse osmosis systems. I tested and found nitrates in the city tap water a few years ago, I reported it and had to send it some samples. But of course, I know a little more about water in general than your average bear. I am a swimming pool technician and I am a hobbiest fish keeper, keeping both fresh and saltwater fish. Mostly different kinds of puffer fish.

I love the way you discuss these topics, thanks for sharing your research

3:58 yes I like the flower you drew

I finally realized why I like your content so much- you are like the Bill Nye the science guy of KZfaq. Thank you for making such engaging material. I thoroughly enjoy it!

I'm glad I found your channel ~ you're cool, informative, entertaining, and all-around delightful. It's not much, but please accept this as a token of my appreciation. I hope you're able to continue making content as long as it's enjoyable for you, and I hope you get the million+ subs you deserve👏👏👏🧡💛💚💙❤😘

You need more views, you deserve it. More subs, more everything. Keep going. Never give up. I truly believe that you’re gonna blow up again.

I’m so happy I found this channel. We need more people interested in science and the scientific method. People who are aware of biases, what hypotheses are, what scientific theories are, what peer review is and how important it is. I’m 61 and I’m always so excited to see young people interested in science. With all the conspiracy theories and misinformation happening today, we really need good, skeptical, scientific, YOUNG minds to keep things rationale and fact based!! You give me hope for the future!

Love your channel, just needed to comment that I always hit the like button before your videos commence. Moreover, I’d say I’m not the only one who does this. 😊😊😊

You are a hell of a communicator. What is your background if you don't mind me asking? You take complicated as heck topics, clean em up, filter em down to the vital bits and deliver them in a concise and informative way. Its really impressive, I hope you blow up, you deserve way more views. This channels up there with Smarter every day, veratasium, electroboom, how to cook that, just to name a few.

I get reverse-osmosis water water from a water store, because it's ultra cheap to fill up a 5 gallon jug and close by. As I understand it, storing a large volume of water in a bigger plastic container is necessarily going to be safer than storing the same volume of water in many smaller containers, simply because of the square cube law. I invert it over a glass dispenser jar (which, unfortunately has a plastic spigot...) as a water cooler. At some point I'll swap to a glass jug and use a better (cushioned) jar with a stainless spigot, but I have other priorities right now and I use the water fast enough that it doesn't sit in the jug for long.

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Congratulations on 100k subscribers!! Amazing! It's important to have charismatic hosts presenting these important subjects!!

What I would really like to see, and something I've struggled with (mainly due to everything I try tasting horrible in even the smallest amounts), is what natural constituents to add back to water after it's been purified, to make it closer to nature. There's a lot of really important trace minerals and such, but every time I try, it just tastes awful, even though I actually like the taste of natural water. I can't seem to recreate it. I'll also mention that structured water seems legit, because the stuff I've tested at home, while I couldn't tell the difference, Mom was able to guess correctly every time, and it seemed quite obvious which was which to her. The idea here, as I understand it, is that water tends to remember the electrical signature of whatever was in it, and you can essentially reset it, like a hard drive, by passing it through a strong magnetic field multiple times. There are other ways to do it, such as natural water flow patterns found in rivers and such, but I used a vortex magnetizer for my tests, which is essentially a "tornado in a bottle" with a ring of magnets around it.

I want more of this! More water talk! Especially about natural sources. Great video! 👍🏻👍🏻

KZfaq must be messing around with this man. How come this video have less than 10k views after a month?

Best channel I've been recomended in a while. Keep it up brother!

I really appreciate you choosing topics that are not as well known but everybody can use and apply! I'd love to see a follow-up video about why humans need minerals/electrolytes and how this dovetails into our water sources, e.g. why springs/wells are so great for humans and what modern purified water lacks for human health

I've had like 4 bottles of water just today and now you're making me want more.

Artesian wells are the ones that have enough pressure to run over the top. The static water level inside a well is where the resting level is. Water will run down mountains but when it goes into an underground aquifer filtered for hundreds of miles through granite and sand and gravel it will become pure.

Why didn't this get recommended to me I watch literally all your new videos

I'm so glad I found your channel! I've been worried about water for a long time, and have been dismayed by the lack of progress in my lifetime toward getting good water to all people. The current fad of buying bottled water instead of properly funding community water departments, makes me mad. Since we are not going to quit our water habit, I consider the accessibility to clean good water not only imperative, but a human right. The push to privatize water supply for profit is IMO an evil ambition. Collecting rainwater has quietly become "illegal" in municipality after municipality (where water departments are municipal). Where water is controlled by the state, efforts are made to make laws that say even every drop of rain that falls, belongs to the state. When I lived in California, I was surprised to learn that if you had a well on your property, the state would put a meter on it! I came from a state where if you had a well, that was your water. During water restrictions, you would see the rare green lawn had a sign on it, "This lawn was watered with well water." As I say, I've been worried about this for a long time, since I was a child. I am 76. Keep your water supply from becoming privatized. Keep gathering rainwater legal!

Very informative. I like my water filtered through hops barley and yeast like our forefathers.

No water has ever hit harder than a drink from a fresh cool spring in the middle of a hike in the mountains.

I'd give you a glass of water from the water dispenser in the fridge because it's very cold. I drink tap water all the time because the fridge water is too cold and hurts my teeth.

Love this video

I love these videos! I just found your channel but everything is well researched and fantasically explained !! I appreciate your work on helping educate people!

Love your videos. Keep it up!

I love the content and am just boggled how you don't have millions of subscribers yet. You got attention grabbing videos that keep me looking for more. Keep it up dude; if I had money to send ya I would.

You are very informative, thank you for your good work...

The EWG has a database where you can check the purity of your local water supply. I’m in Irvine. Our water is the stuff of nightmares, definitely not safe to drink. If only we had a functional EPA that took this stuff seriously....

I'm drinking spring water from a ravine on the florida trail through a sawyer squeeze as i watch this.

When I was a kid we had a 900ft deep water table well, the water was exceptional, kinda of amazing tbh. It actually tasted good and felt like you were actually drinking something. To this day I miss that water.

The production value of your videos is top notch!

I just now discovered you. You're GREAT! Sent over some love (in the form of $$) and subscribed. Gotta get you some more subscribers! Keep bringing REAL science. We need you!

You got a like buddy, good stuff as per. I live in rural Norfolk UK, on a farm with its owm 100 metre deep borehole thatt was many years ago drilled into the chalk aquifer below. The water is beautiful to drink, many times tastier than the tap water I occasionally have to tolerate. The difference cannot be explained in words, it's something you have to experience.

Good stuff bredda❤!

For years I was the "safety guy" at work. (Yeah, that guy 😯) I had to keep on file an MSDS for water. Yup. By the way, avoid inhaling it...😂

I was raised on spring water from a well in the foothills of the Appalachians. Most of what we drank was water. Actually, most days, we only drank water. It was cold right out of the tap and frankly, was delicious. A glass of water at our cousin's house or my grandmother's house was very different. I drank it but didn't think it was delicious. Then we moved to Florida and I straight-up wouldn't drink tap water. It was bad enough to shower in it, I wasn't going to drink it! So I mostly drank soda and coffee. I'm now in Virginia and I drink tap water filtered through a Brita pitcher. It's not delicious but it doesn't taste like drinking bleach. Any time I travel back home, I drink the tap water.

Well done

The best water on earth? Easy, it came out of an old pitcher pump that was in my grandparent's back yard. We used to fill water troughs that we watered the mules and chickens. It was always cold and had a mineral/iron taste.

Speaking as a Norwegian: Optimal point is somewhere between rain falling and lemmings drowning.

I love these pithy, well produced, and informative video. Nice job as always.

Definitely subscribing!!

I love this perspective too this topic! I've pondered about this exact thing. Like daydream pondering about this topic. There's so much to it. Even makes the invention of beer/alcohol understandable.

This was the most damn interesting video I've seen in a long time... I've been drinking tap water all my life and never trusted plastic bottled water, everyone always acts like I'm insane because of it and seems to be the opposite lol

Thanks!

i was raw dogging this video without water, still hit the like. thats what we do here.

Very comprehensive presentation about our most important resource. Thank you!

Tap water is generally preferred. Regulations are different.

Why am I only discovering this channel now? What kind algorithm manipulation is this? Anyways, I’m just here to say I love this channel. Wishing you the best of luck.

Another good video from a good YTer.

Great information and narration. Also, the humor is just right......

I like the flower you drew

I really like your videos. Keep up the great work 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

thank u sir

The best drinking water is where ever you are and the best of whatever you have

I live in an area where the tap water is as fresh and clean if not more than bottled water, which is really nice and I appreciate it. I do sometimes visit other countries where such thing isn't possible and we have to buy bottled water because the tap water isn't safe for consumptionn

Nice.

Great content

Good stuff brother, looking forward to more. Just discovered you and give you a thumbs up and subscribed.. 👍

I live close to Mountain Valley Water bottling plant, the cleanest water I have ever had.

Great explanation of the sources of water that we and other life forms use. On geological time scale, the amount of water on the Earth’s surface and groundwater can change with new water coming out of volcanoes from deep inside the Earth and other geological processes pulling water into the rocks more or less permanently.

I drank beer through this whole episode, thanks for the education 👍

You are the next cgp grey

I like your channel so far and i love water. Your other video about "naked" water was awesome too. If i buy water bottles i buy spring. For home i use r/o and add himilayan salt or trace mineral drops. For years i drank straight r/o water and for the last several years been adding minerals back. Your other video reassured me that r/o and distilled are not the best to drink.

Nice flower

Wow! Subscribed…

I LOVE your content so much! Does that make me thirsty? 🤔

Thanks

"If this video made you drink water at all, drop a like" *Stares intensely then sips coffee* Does dirty bean water count?

Great information!!! Let me add a bit more information that you didn't touch on. I can tell you exactly what happened even until the 1800's ... Beer. You see, folks knew when water wasn't safe all the way back to Greece and Egypt and likely before, but no documentation off the top of my head. Many, many folks died of water-borne illnesses. Somewhere along the line, folks discovered that during the process of fermentation, they could drink something made with the water they had available (which they dumped everything into, washed their clothes in, bathed in) relatively safely. The fermentation killed the bacteria. So EVERYONE, including children, drank beer. That sounds really bad, but the beer of old is not the beer of today by any means. Kids weren't walking around drunk. Alcohol content was negligible. Kids were still drinking beer when the first US colonies were formed and well after. The very short version is that first came beer, then Absinthe (during WWI) but children couldn't drink it. Then rudimentary filtering, then chlorine, then fluoride for teeth, then the very, very expensive filtering process that we have now that is fairly well unnecessary other than to change taste (in first world countries anyway). As kids in the 70's we drank municipal supply both from the tap and out of the hose. In some places (like DFW), once a year in the fall, a temperature inversion would happen in lakes and reservoirs, which gave us brown water that smelled like dead fish. That's when we got commercial filtered water for a few months. You DO know that Evian (which was the first large commercially available bottled water) is Naive spelled backwards? Now, springs used to be a great source of natural water. When I was a kid, someone in New Mexico, on a mountain road, built a water fountain in the middle of nowhere and we just HAD to stop and drink from it every time we passed it. Now? It's closed. Fertilizer, farming run-off ... it's undrinkable. When I was about 10-12, I went to a church camp in the NM mountains and part of our hike included drinking water from a stream (you just had to avoid swallowing minnows). Now? Nope. Contaminated. So, even if there's a spring, and you're pretty sure there's no farming nearby, what's required is a filter for the water bottle to be sure it's safe. Floating a river and cooling your beverages in the water (which we used to do as kids)? Nope. Popping open a cool can of water can give you all kinds of intestinal issues because of run-off. Even here in the US, a first world country, don't trust natural sources of water. Chemicals, normal bio bacteria that belongs in the lower gut doesn't belong in the upper gut, waste dumping ... just don't. Even the little bit on the lip of a can of soda or beer can take you out for days. As to aquifers, we've lived on a place with a well for 22 years. Only last year did we start using a water disperser because the water table was so dry because of drought here in the PNW that more than one neighbor had to have their well dug deeper. Not cheap. Also, just yesterday (6/1/23), Arizona stopped any further housing developments in Phoenix because their groundwater is calculated to last less than a century as per the current population and water consumption. If you're ever in France, especially mid southeast between Lyon and Avignon, there's a tiny village called Pont-en-Royans that has a water museum (we only knew because we have friends we visit there). They have water from all of the world. My favorite name comes from King Island just off of Tasmania called "Cloud Juice". Know who bottled black Bling water ... which is water with charcoal and a bottle with bling? The US of course. No other country would be dumb enough to buy into that. The museum also does tastings of both still and bubbly water, just like they do wine. Pretty awesome. One last note: "Distilled" water is NOT drinkable. For a lot of medical/chemical reasons that are too long to discuss here, it's only for Irons, crafts, and CPAP machines.

This is an interesting topic. Could you please talk about structured water? Thanks. Much love. 🤗💖🙏

No, i am not! Thanks for this video! ❤🎉

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Drink from the right lake and you get a meal as well!!!! Bonus

Thanks water is my favourite drink. Nothing quenches like it imo.

3:55 Yes

Super tasty water out of Quabbin Reservoir in MA.

I believe I actually do know where the best drinkable water is. I found it coming out of a crack in a rock high in a mountain. I haven’t drank it in twenty five years so difficult it is to access.

Shoutout to the Parris chariz album cover in the background

I get my water from a 150 ft deep well on my property in the NJ Pinelands :)

I definitely owed DeQuan from 43rd a like.

When i visited iceland, it was crazy how everything, even the taps, used fresh crispy glacier water

Penn and Teller on "BS" did an episode on bottled water. Their "water sommelier" prank was revealing.

Orchard Valley water co. In Laramie County Wyoming...best water

Very good information. The water where I live taste so bad. I buy the big 5 gallon water from Lowe’s but I don’t know what’s the best

I'm saying this early on so maybe I'll change my tune but, Casey's spring water FTW (Casey's General Store - the gas station)... I don't know what it is but I love those more than any other beverage. I drink like half a 24 pack a day. I'm sure there's probably all sorts of issues with the plastic - both environmental and like ingesting residual chemicals. But I mean, water has pretty much always been my favorite drink but God, there's just something extra delicious with those. I guess it's the minerals or whatever but I wish I could somehow replicate that. And I don't really understand. I mean, I think they're even better than Evian. Here in Arkansas we've got the town Hot Springs and their water down there is pretty good. I guess it's pumped directly out of the hot springs and you can just fill up jugs at the fountains in the middle of town. It's pretty hot right out of the pump though. But I think Mountain Valley Spring water is headquartered down there in Hot Springs too. I remember I used to really like that too but they quit selling it anywhere around here - Arkansas produces one of the better spring water brands and you can scarcely even buy it in Arkansas. Anyway.. I guess I'm pretty passionate about bottled water lol...

I will always say that natural sparkling water is the best water on earth

"Purer" water isn't always the best water but natural water from springs is always the best, fresh and pakced with healthy minerals aaand potentially radioactive ones too cause you never know what you're gonna find...

Easy. New Zealand.

Lol! I'd boil fresh mountain spring water before drinking it! …because before it became a stream, some of it was soaking down shit. The minerals survive boiling, the parasites (&etc) don't.

Best water I've ever tasted was directly from a mountain stream as my friend and I were walking down from the snow. It was cold and it had just the right amount of natural rock flavors. That being said, just about any ice cold water comes close, even tap. As long as it's really cold, it's great. I'm convinced most people can't taste the difference between tap water and mountain spring water if they are the same temperature.

im going to watch make sure you pick the best water and dont miss some like maple water

I drink the tap water. In this part of the world it's fresh and clean. I won't need any bottled water.

Bottled water is not a new invention, but its widespread use is new. Evian and Perrier water were well known as Rich People's Water. But, the Gulf war (1993) caused a requirement for the military to provide water to its soldiers in desert climes. The military contracted for vast amounts of bottled drinking water to be sent overseas, and the companies making bottled drinking water saw an opportunity to market bottled water as better than tap water. Thus, the homeland market for bottled drinking water was started.