Let's have a jar of pathogens!

Kate Taylor reports at Business Insider,

Silicon Valley elites are spending $60 for less than 3 gallons of dangerous, unfiltered water — and it’s flying off the shelves.

Though fans of the untreated water are not backed by science, many told The Times they felt confident they were getting health benefits from drinking it.

For example, Mukhande Singh, the founder of Live Water, told the publication his startup’s water expired after a few months — something he said was normal for “real water.”

“It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery,” Singh said. “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.”

…”Almost everything conceivable that can make you sick can be found in water,” one such expert, Bill Marler, told Business Insider. That includes bacteria that can cause diseases or infections such as cholera, E. coli, hepatitis A, and giardia.

“You can’t stop consenting adults from being stupid,” Marler said. “But we should at least try.”

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