01-11-2016, 07:16 PM
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Re: Anyone living in a yurt full time with children?
Our well water had to meet purity standards before the certificate of occupancy was issued on our home in March 2000. As I recall, it flunked. That made me pretty edgy to say the least. I had to add additional bleach down the well, let sit, and run the well another 24 hours or so to purify clear and retest. Seems to me I added at least two gallons of bleach, but we have a 5" well that is about 287' deep. Then it passed and we were in. We also have alot of iron in our water and had a purification system installed to alleviate that problem.
If you are using surface water for drinking it surely would flunk any purity test unless you are in a very isolated pristine area, away from farmland and city. Even with the fantastic rocky mountain water the city of CO SPGS has, it is still treated for purity. Very high standards.
The electrician on my home collected run off from the home he built up high in the rocky mountains. He collected that water in a cistern. That water was grey water ONLY and did NOT pass through his residential plumbing system. It went to the clothes washer, and exterior watering of garden etc. None of this really addresses your situation but it might give you an overview of water quality standards here in the U.S.
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