  About GREEN BATHTUB -- The Journey -- Acid Rain -- Water Copper -- pH -- Conclusions -- Feed Back |
About GREEN BATHTUB -- The Journey -- Acid Rain -- Water Copper -- pH -- Conclusions -- Feed Back |
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CONCLUSION...
This Journey has led along many varied and twisted tracks in its course. Some of the information garnered has little application to general matters but was collected from a viewpoint of someone with rainwater and a solar hot water system. In the light of all the scientific information and chemistry enlightenment, our final solution was to take a Besser brick, tie a rope to it and submerge it in the water tank for two or three days. This raised the pH to a level where we no longer have the copper gunge in the bath-tub, but the water is still pure enough to allow soap to work and so we are able to enjoy a refreshing shower, and the laundry soap performance has not been inhibited. As for the purity of our drinking water - I have more concerns about drinking the lime from the brick than I have with drinking the pure rain water which may, because of its chemistry, deplete the minerals that we should retain in our bodies. |
"GREEN BATHTUB" was built in April 2002 by K van Riel*- estaria13@yahoo.com.au
Content supplied by C van Riel- greenbathtub@yahoo.com.au
LAST UPDATED- 2.5.02