Radium is good!

You are hysterical herc.


According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, radium typically enters the body when it is breathed in or swallowed. Health effects from radium exposure include cancer, anemia, cataracts, and death.

I wonder if you can use vinegar for the cleaner like I do for my shower head?


Hexavalent chromium is used in textile dyes, wood preservation, anti-corrosion products, chromate conversion coatings, and a variety of niche uses. Industrial uses of hexavalent chromium compounds include chromate pigments in dyes, paints, inks, and plastics; chromates added as anticorrosive agents to paints, primers, and other surface coatings; and chromic acid electroplated onto metal parts to provide a decorative or protective coating.

Hexavalent chromium can be formed when performing "hot work" such as welding on stainless steel or melting chromium metal. In these situations the chromium is not originally hexavalent, but the high temperatures involved in the process result in oxidation that converts the chromium to a hexavalent state. Hexavalent chromium can also be found in drinking water and public water systems, causing skin rash and other dermatological skin disorders.

I hate to break it to you Cafe, but our own piss water runs downhill to the closest local water treatment plant to be treated and used as drinking water again and again.

That's why people shouldn't flush their prescriptions!

Synthetic drugs seems to escape the treatment process according to some medical scientists!

I strictly use spring water when I homebrew.

I only use tap water for cleaning things or watering the plants around here!

I drink gallons of tap water. It's fine.

I only drink tap water, unless in Mexico

I hear that bottled spring water is good. Full of raccoon piss and bear poo.

The company that supplies my community water is a co-op. They buy the water they distribute from another company that supplies the water. A couple of months ago I got a notice that the water that the company that supplies the water is the subject of a class action lawsuit on behalf of those of us that use its water. They put chloride and fluoride in the drinking water, and recently the Federal Government mandated that they reduce the amount of fluoride in the drinking water, but they did not do so, and they were being sued over that, and rightly so, for chlorine and fluoride are poisons that damage internal organs in the body. In Europe using chloride and fluoride is against the law, there, they use ozone instead. The ozone kills microorganisms in the water and then breaks down into oxygen. That is what they should be doing here, but the Federal Government has mandated chloride and fluoride because they want to get rid of industrial waste, which is what this is, and they want to poison people in the process.

It turns out that our water distributer had switched the source of its water. It was about that time, that I started noticing here that we were developing a hard water problem. And since this is related to this thread, I am going to go ahead and mention this here. What they call “scale” started building up in the bowls of my commodes, and the stuff was hard, very hard, I had to chip it off with a flat head screwdriver and hammer to get it off. The main culprits causing hard water problems are dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water. Scale can ruin a water system and appliances that use water, such as clothes washers, by building up in pipes and such. And correcting scale buildup can cost time and money. It’s the first time I have had a hard water problem during all the time I have been here.

The typical solution to a hard water problem is to install a salt treatment system that removes the scale building chemicals, these salts are available in bulk from Lowes and such, but that solution is expensive in that it requires you to continually replace the spent salts. I am mentioning this because there is a lesser known solution that costs nothing. These are powerful permanent magnets that you clamp around a copper or plastic pipe carrying water into your house. They magnetize the chemicals in the water preventing them from plating out as scale, and also causing scale already in the pipes to dissolve back into the water. The Federal Government, by the way, knows about this solution, and recommends it. Magnetics designed for this purpose are available from magnets4less.com. which sells powerful high grade neodymium and rare earth magnets to the public at wholesale prices, and which supplies the Federal Government, including the military, with its magnets (and no, I have no connection with them other than being a long time customer—in addition to having installed the devices that I am telling you about here, I have a lot of very powerful permanent magnets from them that I use in my research, including my free energy research).

Note: large powerful permanent magnets are not toys, and kids should not be allowed to play with them without adult supervision. If you get your fingers or hand caught between two of them, the force is so great that they can seriously injure you, even crush your bones. You never want two of these to get close enough to grab one another, keep them far enough apart so that they do not do this. And if kids swallow small permanent magnets, it generally causes no problem, they pass these, but if they swallow two or more of them, they can clamp the intestines together and that typically requires surgery to correct. So keep this in mind if you have little kids.

To find these water softener conditioner magnets on magnets4less, go to “strong neodymium magnets” on the home page and click on it, then go to and click on “Magnetic water softener conditioners” I recommend the model # MWS4, and for the hardest water, you will need three of them. Three of them plus shipping will cost you right at $200. It’s “a strong neodymium no salt solution to hard water problems”. These magnets that I am recommending are 2 inch long by 1 inch wide by 1 inch thick, and there are a pair of them in the conditioner you clamp around the pipe. They are well coated to keep them from ever corroding, and will last indefinitely. They are easy to install, and once they are installed, they cost you nothing to maintain conditioned water. The Federal Government report I mentioned above is also available from them for free download.

Most people do not know about this handy and care free solution to hard water problems, and if you have hard water problem, you will eternally grateful to me for calling this to your attention. It will save you a lot of grief and a lot of money.

Louie