Midland, Texas, and surrounding areas have been in a drought for quite a while, although there have been periods of reprieve from time to time. Lately the rains have been a refreshing relief.
The water that falls from the sky is relatively pure, presumably only affected by the airborne contaminants. But water from the tap originally came from the ground and contains whatever it picked up while under there. Plus it has been heavily treated by the municipal water department. Some residents drink it, but most buy bottled water or have their own reverse osmosis system filtering it before they consume it.
Recently some rain water got captured in a bucket in my back yard. There's also a bucket of tap water back there for the foxes and other feral animals. Here's the thing. The other day I noticed mosquitoes flying around the rain water bucket, and inside there were larva swimming all around. I dumped it immediately. But there were none in the tap water bucket. What do the mosquitoes know that we don't?
Perhaps it's the arsenic in the water supply.
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