This is a great question with several different ramifications and conditions. The question illuminates the reality that the world gets a voluminous amount of water from rain, which runs all over the place as what we call storm water. In most geographies the majority of our rain/stormwater winds up flowing to streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually out to our oceans or into the atmosphere by way of evaporation. For…
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How Potent Is The Rain?
Just a short post today, but yet, a big one. With all the talk of drought and water shortages it’s good for us to stop and take a look at just how much water he have, and how little of it we capture and take advantage of. Everyone has witnessed the rivers of water running down the streets during a good rain. Rainwater or storm-water if you will, represents a…
Is Rainwater Healthy To Drink?
One cannot really not answer this question because no two rainwater samples will ever be the same. In fact, if we collect multiple samples of rainwater at the same location, just over a broad time span, the samples will all be different. Water is the universal solvent, so rain will, in fact, absorb contaminants from the atmosphere as it falls. If the contaminants are harmful, then the rain may indeed have…