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Has the water you drink been drunk before?? If so, how many times? If not, where do you think fresh water comes from??

Posted - October 2, 2016

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  • 13395
    When you discover there is a lot of fish sperm in the water you are drinking then you know it has been consumed before.

    By not only fish but any species of animal too.

      October 2, 2016 7:50 AM MDT
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  • 3907
    Hello k:

    Well, I think the fish sperm, along with the gorilla piss, has been washed out..

    excon
      October 2, 2016 7:56 AM MDT
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  • 44604
    Water is continually being recycled, therefore you are drinking what the dinosaurs drank and also what they peed.
      October 2, 2016 8:41 AM MDT
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  • It's all been passed through many organisms, many times by now.  With the exceptions of very small amounts that are created through  certain types of combustion and other chemical processes.  Even then the hydrogen and oxygen has likely been passed through, or been a part of, an organism.
      October 2, 2016 9:01 AM MDT
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  • 258
    Water gains and loses impurities along the way. Molecule by molecule, most of those impurities stay behind in the evaporation part of the water cycle. Then water falls and gains impurities anew. Some of those impurities remain in the soil as water seeps down, in the case of ground water, or accumulate as water flows over the earth. The impurities, and the potential for ill health effects, is the reason water treatment has been the norm for over a century.
      October 2, 2016 9:11 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    i would hope not
      October 2, 2016 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 17593
    The water you drink today was pee pee  at some point.  The amount of water on Earth doesn't change. 
      October 2, 2016 11:55 PM MDT
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  • 258
    Actually, it appears the amount of water does change. There may be a steady incoming trickle from space in the form of very small comet-like dirty iceballs. Water from these objects joins the water cycle.
    http://www.windows2universe.org/headline_universe/snowball.html
      October 4, 2016 8:15 AM MDT
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  • 17593
    Thanks for that.  :)
      October 4, 2016 10:34 PM MDT
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