Spring water for DWC

As the title says, I am curious about using spring water for a DWC grow.
I have access to as much of it as I want, and it is clean, drinkable water.

Next time I am in the area I will gather a few liters and test the PPM and
ph.

Anything else I should be worried about?

I have a feeling this will be a big no-no, as there might be bad bacteria in it.

something wrong with your tap?

dbkick said:

something wrong with your tap?

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Lolz

The only thing to watch out for is Ph.
I use tap water too.

I use rain water when i can get it......... 6.0 ph 000 ppm

TriPurple said:

I use rain water when i can get it......... 6.0 ph 000 ppm

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It pissed down yesterday and the garden looks great (outside) today - always does after a good clear out !!!

TriPurple said:

I use rain water when i can get it......... 6.0 ph 000 ppm

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For sure! I can get rain water as well, the mother-in-law has a giant rain barrel, and it's been pouring here lately!

There's nothing wrong with my tap water, but why not use something different if it is available?

Misterman: by who's standards is it /potabledrinkable? The crap that comes out of my tap is supposedly safe to drink but it scores anywhere from 450 to 500 ppm's and a pH that can get near 10 during the summer. The problem is going to be the mineral content that will react with the nutes you use. If you R/O it there shouldn't be a problem but you might want to have it lab tested first. A friend of mine moved into an beautiful mountainous area in Arizona that was once a mining region and there's so much arsenic in the water it's not drinkable. I wouldn't want to smoke his stuff. I hope this helps. HSA

Hugo Phurst said:

Lolz

The only thing to watch out for is Ph.
I use tap water too.

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I used to use straight tap till my water quadrupled in shit, from 70 to 280 ppm. I think it may have been the fact that they went to chloramine instead of chlorine. All I know is shit in hydro started kicking left and right, I even went as far as to transplant into soil which worked, I'm now running nothing but RO.

I use tap water and dont even have to check the ph...every time i do check it its right at 6...i live in the desert at the base of lake arrowhead and supposedly all my water is coming from the mountain... And i also have a spring near by and a well in my backyard...dont see any issues here...(except for the well water, just dont know) ...like to see what happens

In some places (like here) it's illegal to capture rain water.

dbkick said:

In some places (like here) it's illegal to capture rain water.

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Are you fucking kidding me? how the fuck is that justifiable

Bigz2277 said:

Are you fucking kidding me? how the fuck is that justifiable

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State owns the rain, pretty fucked up but true