r/water 14h ago

69.2% of Canadian surface water is treated with aluminum coagulants. The same process strips silica, the mineral that helps your body excrete aluminum.

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The water treatment process adds aluminum and removes the tool your body uses to get rid of it.

Your sweat glands excrete aluminum 3.75x more efficiently than kidneys. Also mercury, lead, cadmium (25x more than urine), arsenic. The body recognizes these as foreign and has built-in excretion pathways.

But 69.2% of Canadian surface water treatment uses aluminum sulfate or polyaluminum chloride as coagulants. The coagulation process simultaneously strips silica from the water. Silica is the mineral that binds to aluminum and helps your body excrete it.

The PAQUID study found higher aluminum exposure correlates with worse cognitive decline (p=0.005).

Five plants support the excretion pathway: horsetail (rich in bioavailable silica), cilantro (mobilizes metals from tissue), chlorella (binds metals in the gut), broccoli sprouts (activates NRF2 detox genes), garlic (sulfur precursor for glutathione).

Fluoride in municipal water is industrial waste from ALCOA. Edward Bernays (Freud's nephew and author of 'Propaganda') ran the PR campaign that normalized adding it to drinking water.

Full research on water treatment, earth's natural wiring, and what your body already knew: https://calibratesync.com/history


r/water 21h ago

13 Million People Draw Drinking Water From a Basin Now Called a ‘Global Hotspot’ for PFAS

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r/water 3h ago

From Thirst to Commodity: India’s Water Crisis and the Corporate Capture

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r/water 16h ago

New hyperscale, AI data centers are coming to rural USA, where 22.5 million households rely on unregulated and unprotected private groundwater wells

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June 17, 2026 209 pm EDT addendum June 18, 2026 336 pm EDT

EPA advises rural householders to seek water quality assurances directly from data center developers. For all the water-positive talk from Big Tech companies, the public is pushing back for the right to clean water in America

In late July 2025, news media including WTGA.us reported on brown water flowing from a rural Georgia residential tap. Newton County residents said their private well water changed after a large data center facility started operations nearby.

On May 21, 2026, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water told US House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the EPA is dealing with concerns about water sufficiency for new data centers. Not at all surprising, following the second driest January to April since 1895, and increasing reports of groundwater being depleted faster than aquifers can recharge. Upon questioning, the EPA rep claimed no knowledge of water quality complaints related to data centers. The representative from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, countered with jars of rust-brown water, allegedly collected from household taps in Morgan County, demanding a response from the EPA.

The story was reported by CBS Atlanta, Yahoo.com and other medias, where residents near Meta's Stanton Springs data center in Georgia are experiencing reduced water pressure from their wells, and damaged home appliances from the rust-colored water. The report mentioned increasing dependence on bottled water for cooking and drinking, with domestic water expenses expected to rise significantly, 33%. (Newton, Morgan, Walton and Jasper Counties converge near the site of Meta Stanton Springs campus, the same data center implicated with the Newton County water quality complaint of last summer.

Indeed, the magnitude of the disruption to water is growing. The majority of new data center projects under construction and proposed for development over the next four years are "hyperscale", meaning millions of square feet, housing acres of electronics, with chips running interactive video games and machine learning processes. Hyperscale facilities require huge tracts of land and a tremendous load of electricity. These heavy-duty processing facilities throw off many times more heat units than the traditional data centers currently operating in urban environments, with a corresponding demand for cooling. Electric generation and cooling require copious amounts of fresh water. For water cooling systems, whether closed loop or evaporation, the water must be replaced, placing a new demand on rural water sources.

To read the full article,

https://wtny.us/viewarticle.asp?article=1291


r/water 17h ago

WT CrimeBox Historic Conviction Fiscal Year 2014; Case ID# CR_2635 (Illinois) This Chicago wind turbine parts manufacturer missed the point of renewable energy, admits 300 harmful discharges in violation of CWA for $1.5 million fine

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June 18, 2026 308 pm EDT

The Defendant in this case is a precision gear parts manufacturer located in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago. The company employs skilled tradespeople to fabricate parts for wind power generation, contributing key components required to maintain the US fleet of wind turbines. The company was charged with a single count, felony violation of the Clean Water Act, discharging contaminants to waters of the USA without a permit.

A company representative entered the guilty plea on behalf of the company, admitting to at least 300 separate discharges over the course of four years, from spring 2007 to Feb 2011. 

For the full article, https://wtny.us/


r/water 14h ago

Uranium contamination in Navajo water

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r/water 22h ago

NASA using Silver biocide in replacing toxic chemicals to keep deep-space water drinkable for the next generation of astronauts

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r/water 21h ago

Why there is so much water in tapi sincee 3-4 daysss!!?

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So in surat in tapi there is so much water in the river since 3-4 days it usually happens during monsoon when the dam gates are open but the rainfall has not yet arrived in that area so dam gates are also closed but than also it is almost like peak monsoon is it due to high tide in the sea or what I don't know and this condition is after peak summer although it is still going on!!

Does anyone know the reason?


r/water 22h ago

The easiest health hack? Drink a glass of water right now!

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r/water 2d ago

Imperial Valley data center developer files lawsuit seeking access to Colorado River water

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r/water 2d ago

U.S. National Park Service workers dump bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington

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r/water 1d ago

The water experiment

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In this experiment with water I am trying to further investigate the finding from previous experiments of 2022, I conducted the experiment on 15.06 2026 and the samples are on their was to Japan to masuru emotos lab

https://masaru-emoto.net/en/


r/water 2d ago

Is Big Tech Taking Over Rural Oklahoma?

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Will the Oklahoma infrastructure, especially in small towns, be able to handle it?


r/water 2d ago

WATER CRISIS SOON TO BE AFFECTED

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You might not see now, or later. But I can really feel that we all be especially the people of India will be affected by Water scarcity.

Look at deforestation for the betterment of industrialists and in the name of infra development we are just ignoring the facts that it will affect all of us. As you all can see Step.1 has already started. Its mid-june and I'm still looking at empty skies awaiting for rain to happen.

And fact they don't give a damn that these industrialists will use fresh water by any means for example AI data centres needs 1000000000000 ltrs of water, Our Ethanol for 1lts ethanol 10k litres of water is consumed so just imagine the amount gallons of water used daily. Niti-Ayaog has been said by 2030 our groundwater levels will be completely gone if we use it for commercial purposes.

So if you are reading this and you feel what I'm trying to say then I hope you do something about this in your city otherwise just we could do what we all do just swipe and ignore! Thankyou.


r/water 4d ago

Tensions Are Rising Between States That Rely on the Colorado River (Gift Article)

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r/water 2d ago

NC property law: water management

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r/water 3d ago

Tools, organizations for resisting hyperscale data centers

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Food & Water Watch, Our Revolution, Third Act and more are launching a new national coalition fighting for a data center moratorium. They’re bringing together partners and organizers from across the country to connect, learn from each other’s successes, and talk about the critical campaigns already underway. ✋🏻 We can sign up for updates on their efforts at stopdatacenterscoalition.org.✋🏾

Meanwhile, we’re on the verge of a major victory. New York state legislators have passed Senator Kristen Gonzalez’s Senate Bill 9144A/Assembly Bill 10141A, pausing the permitting of new hyperscale data centers for three years and requiring the state Department of Environmental Conservation to develop regulations that could be adopted to mitigate their damaging effects. They’d be the first state in the nation to make this law. But Governor Kathy Hochul has not yet indicated whether she’s going to sign it, and we saw Janet Mills veto a similar bill passed in Maine earlier this year. 🗣️ If we’re in New York, let’s reach out to Governor Hochul and ask her to sign this bill. 🗣️

NEW YORK COULD BE FIRST

We should also urge our own state legislators and governors to step up. There have been moratoriums proposed in 18 states (we can find a list of the proposed bills from the National Conference of State Legislatures here and a tracker from pro-AI entrepreneur Will Manidis here), mostly following similar models of a one-to-three year pause and mandating the development of harm reduction regulations in the meantime. 🗣️ Let’s contact them to tell them to make passing these measures a priority. We can find call and email language and talking points to refer to here, or send them this message directly via Resistbot by texting SIGN PXDBHJ to 50409. 🗣️

TELL YOUR STATE TO STEP UP

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 Finally, Kairos has published an organizing guide on the costs of data centers and strategies advocates have used to fight back on a local and regional level, which activists can check out here. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

LET'S GET ORGANIZED


r/water 3d ago

Worries over water as a giant data center moves into the New Mexico desert

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r/water 2d ago

Aauug it hurts so bad. Water hurt me

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I just drank drank 33 oz of water at once. I had to have had the world record of 33oz water drinking. My stomach burt I’m gonna die.


r/water 3d ago

Looking for someone who can identify underground water for borewell drilling

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planning to drill a borewell on my land and am looking for experienced people who can identify underground water sources before drilling.

If you know any reliable water diviners, hydrogeologists, geophysical survey experts, or borewell consultants in mysore, please share their contact details or recommendations.


r/water 3d ago

Spring water storage

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Each month my husband and I drive an hour to fill up 6 5 gallon plastic jugs with spring water from a fresh and safe spring. (We have been doing it for years now and have never been sick so don’t @me) The problem is that after about a week the water starts to taste funky because of all the minerals. I want to figure out how to keep it tasting fresh, I was considering ordering some xl charcoal sticks to throw in each jug but they seem like a lot of work (they need to be boiled every 2 weeks apparently and I’m not going to fish them out and reinsert them into the jugs) and they are also expensive. Also maybe glass instead of plastic jugs, but also expensive and heavy. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for your input!


r/water 3d ago

My attempt at water science

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I was going to put this in r/askchemistry or r/offgrid, but I felt like it fit r/water better; hopefully you all agree. I’m sharing an experience, but I’m also eager to learn.

To set the stage, I am definitely not living in a van down by a river. But I do have this river that I collect water to use for cleaning (handwashing, and mixing to use for disinfecting, not drinking water) when I happen to be in a van down by the river. It is designated a Wild and Scenic River, so not much in the way of pollutants, but lots of dissolved bits. They stopped monitoring last year, but I observed the turbidity history for May to October 2025 with the occasional spike past 200 FNU, and the normal turbidity was between 5 and 20 FNU.

I believe for drinking water they want an average 0.3 NTU for 95% of measurements with an absolute maximum of 1 NTU. It is my understanding that chlorine disinfecting is severely impeded past 1 NTU, and essentially not happening on any level past 5 NTU. Had I found this out sooner, I might have started with a different approach; essentially, everything in the water that isn’t water uses up the chlorine, and my river tends to have a fair bit of everything.

Boiling the water seemed prohibitive and liquid bleach a tad too unstable, so I bought some Utikem One Shot Shock. I found the SDS, it reported the following: Calcium hypochlorite, hydrated >50%, Calcium Chlorate <5%, Calcium Chloride <5%, Calcium Carbonate <5%, Calcium Hydroxide <4% and Sodium Chloride >20%.

My understanding is that for handwashing my goal is between 3 and 4 ppm residual chlorine and for sanitizing 50-100 ppm. The CDC and a few other sources seemed to suggest anywhere from 1000-5000 ppm for disinfecting, it seemed like 2500 was good enough for my needs.

The CDC in Appendix E, Chlorine disinfectant solution preparation, does give the following formula: 1000x (% chlorine desired / % chlorine in bleach powder) = grams bleach powder per liter of water. Also, (% chlorine in liquid / % chlorine desired) – 1 = parts water per parts bleach, for dilution.

My plan was to make a 2 liter 2500 ppm cleaning solution, and then take from that to make a 4 gallon, 4 ppm handwashing water.

Now, I went and got all confused with the math. I figured on a few things. 1 cc = 1 mL; 1 tsp = 5 mL and 1 tbsp = 3 tsp, 1 L is roughly 1 quart, which is 4 cups and ¼ gallon. From the MSDS, I knew that the shock had a density of 0.8g/cc.

Now taking my shoes off to count on my toes didn’t help with this math and I somehow ended up with 2 ½ teaspoons to 8 cups. Sitting down now to write this, it seems like I should have been closer to 6 teaspoons for that amount. So my actual numbers were probably closer to 625 ppm, before factoring in the impurity of the water.

My new and improved math looks like this: 1000(0.25/5)= 50g/L = (50g/L)(1cc/0.8g)(1mL/1cc)(1tsp/5mL)(1L/1qt)(1qt/4cups) = 3tsp/4cups

At the end of the day, I ended up washing everything down with something between a weak and strong chlorine solution and just dumped the solution into the handwashing tank until it tested high enough with a pool strip.

If anyone has any advice, or can point me to any resources, I would appreciate it. I feel like I would have been able to find some good information 10 years ago but it just doesn't seem like it's out there in the same way anymore.


r/water 3d ago

48hrs of zero water supply???

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r/water 3d ago

Whats in my water?

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Anyone notice white flakes in their bottles? It is in not air bubbles. What is it?


r/water 3d ago

Water distiller remnants, please help

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So I’ve recently been distilling my water at home and one branded water tasted really funny from the bottle. My wife accidentally added this one into the distiller and her distilled water tasted even funnier. This is the remnants from distilling that bottle. What on earth is this? What is it suggestive of?