Fossil Water

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Hydrologists call it " fossil water " . It has been lying flat under the

earth

for a very long time. In Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas, people

are

very familiar with this stuff. It tastes awful. But it is safe to

drink

according to public health standards.

 

Almost all surface water naturally contains some oxygen. Fossil water

has

little to none. Our bodies are used to water with some oxygen, so the

underground stuff is contrary to physical expectations. It also will

tend

to have a lot of minerals, which would seem to be a good thing. But

these

minerals tend to be heavy in aluminum, which is a common component of

deep

rocks. This water has been sitting stagnant for a long time and thus

also

has no other life to it.

 

There is a characteristic of water that some researchers call " spin " .

This

is hard to define. It means that the water somehow moves within itself.

 

We

suspect that perhaps there is some sort of force similar to electricity

that

can reside within water. This is the basis for a lot of European

research.

A few scientists there have said that water without spin is very bad for

 

the

body.

 

Really the worst thing about fossil water is what we call the " recharge

rate " . This is an estimate of how long it would take to replace the

water

being drawn up out of the ground. Anything longer than an average

lifetime

is not good, because it means eventually the water will be depleted. In

 

the

case of fossil waters, recharge rates are very difficult to estimate,

but

have been put anywhere from 10,000 to 4 million years. It is possible

that

some High Plains communities are going to eventually have no water

source

at

all. But most people don't want to think about that until the time

comes.