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Just wandering if anybody collects and harvests their own wild water i.e spring water. There is a new website called www.findaspring.com (please mark any springs here) put out by a guy called Daniel Vitalis trying to encourage people to connect to the source, check out his website for some good videos on wildfood http://www.danielvitalis.com/category/videos/

Cut out the plastic tea and pharma cocktail

25ish years ago we used to collect spring water from a spring in Gornal in the blackcountry (UK) as our son wasn't able to wash in tap water his skin woud turn red and he would swell up and burn ... Most of the time I cleaned him with oils but just occasionally when he was small he would like the big sink filled so he could splash... bless my little man ...

I always bring water home from Glastonbury I suppose a lot do that ... but there is a spring at Saltwells Nature Reserve that leaves the rock it flows over red like one of the Glastonbury springs so I assume this one is also an iron rich one ... but I dont know if its safe to drink

I have a friend in Malvern who collects water from the springs.

most of my homebrewing friends use collected spring water for brewing beer.
I filter my city water with good results for drinking/cooking/brewing.
when I make a wine that gets cooked/pasturized
I use rain water collected from the house gutter into a cistern,
usually I use that water only for the garden.

It seems we have two threads on this subject at the moment, I posted on the "spring water" one which I have copied below.

Yes, we do.
Tastes wonderful and so soft when you have a bath or wash your hair.
Can't be too much wrong with it, we have been drinking it for 15 years now.

I does dry up some summers (not recently) and we have a deep borehole well that tastes disgusting, all minerally and hard, but it does us good to appreciate the spring water when it starts to flow again.

Re-reading the original post I have to point out that our house has PIPED spring water, we don't collect it as such, like in a bucket, but comes down about 3/4 mile of pipe off the mountain out back.