Silicon Valley douches are drinking untreated pond water for "health benefits"

People in San Francisco are spending up to $60 dollars to drink the untreated water. Sold by a company called Live Water, bottles of the filth are flying off the shelves, according to the New York Times. Others, it is reported, are gathering and storing untreated spring water—known to harbor potentially lethal bacteria that survivalists, travel guides, and soldiers will warn you from drinking.

Mukhande Singh, founder of Live Water.

Food safety experts warn that consuming so-called “raw” water can cause deadly infections including cholera, hepatitis A, and E. coli, among other water-borne diseases.

Startups dedicated to selling untreated water are also on the rise. One company, called Zero Mass Water, is selling products that allow people to collect their own water from rivers and streams near their homes. The New York Times reports that the company has already raised more than $24 in venture capital funding.

The paper reports that enthusiasts of the fad are venturing out at night onto private property to purloin untreated water from natural springs to quench their thirst.

One enthusiast, Doug Evans, who founded the failed high-profile startup company Juicero, says he and his friends brought 50 gallons of untreated water to the Burning Man festival last year.

Juicero, for what it’s worth, is dubbed the “weird bad juice machine.” It ran out of business due to a flaw in their subscription-based product—drinkers could simply squeeze the juice out with their bare hands without having to spend $400 on their WiFi-enabled juicer.

“I’m extreme about health, I know, but I’m not alone with this,” Evans said. “There are a lot of people doing this with me. You never know who you’ll run into at the spring.”

Supporters of the raw water drinking fad told the Times that there is no scientific validity to the “product,” but they felt confident they were getting health benefits from it.

Live Water founder Mukhande Singh says that untreated water produced by his startup came with an expiration—something that is normal for “real water.”

“It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery,” said Singh. “If it sits around too long, it’ll turn green. People don’t even realize that because all their water’s dead, so they never see it turn green.”

I wonder why.

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  1. 6 years ago
    PunJabber

    I’m assuming that’s a typo (the ditch-water startup already has “over $24 in venture capital”) but we can assume it’s a bargain at half the price.

    This will not end well.

  2. 6 years ago
    Xzavior

    Let them drink. It’s not called survival of the fittest for nothing.

    • 6 years ago
      Andrew Thomas

      Milliennials go full moron. The more who willingly seek out this sht (literally!) to drink it the better. It will raise mankind’s average IQ.

  3. 6 years ago
    JH

    Shit, I’ve had a gold mine sitting in my backyard. A nice natural river, downstream from an old chemical plant for added vitamins and minerals. Time to bottle it up and sell to some hipsters.

  4. 6 years ago
    Dan P.

    Perhaps they will enjoy the piquant flavor of Giardia cysts in the “virgin mountain water”. I will be laughing uproariously when their intestines cascade out their butthole while scream in pain from explosive diarrhea!

  5. 6 years ago
    Brad

    Don’t most of them already have hepatitis anyway?

  6. 6 years ago
    Nate Whilk

    >' “People don’t even realize that because all their water’s dead, so they never see it turn green.” I wonder why.’

    Not true. Tap water will also turn green from algae, especially if the container is left in the open. But it takes a bit longer because of the chlorination.

    There used to be a spring on route 92 near San Mateo, but it was found to contain E.coli and was closed. http://www.hmbreview.com/lombardi-springs-well-capped-due-to-e-coli/article_fa59776b-f27a-577e-a730-5627212f7038.html

  7. 6 years ago
    Jamal Dindu

    Yeah, Californian liberals better start investing in Life Water, I heard Trump already got a hold of the voter rolls and he’s going to use the EPA to cut regulations so they can funnel more flouride to these liberals. They should totally just drink Life-Water, I’m probably going to get a whole batch for me and my liberal friends so we can live better.

  8. 6 years ago
    Jeff

    This needs to be encouraged. Any idiot that doesn’t realise water born bacteria is one of the largest killers world wide is wasting my oxygen.

  9. 4 years ago
    Anonymous

    isnt this from 2017

  10. 4 years ago
    vegans superpower by 2020

    what dosnt kill you makes you stronger

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