Hi,

I followed you and came here to sort of belly ache about your client needing macOS beyond my 11.3.1 (and my typical trope of 'let us wrest these tools from techno-elites blah bla'). However, hearing your woes of water, and having been on catchment for about 25 years now ... well, there's Nostr ... and there's water. Me, I been through a fair amount of the permutations of harvesting rainwater (Hawai'i Island). Your persistent stanky water anecdote brings me back to the formative years of the homestead when, to my dismay, and after longer than I'd prefer; I realized that I was showering in water infused with essence of dead rat.

Dues paying!

Stanky rat-water anecdotes aside, and fwiw, having water that cycles robustly has been real important ... obviously catching it cleanly is super important. I should add that my homestead is in the rainforest ... so copious rain. (How many inches per year down your way?)

Mostly this is a note wishing your and your water well (anybody?). We have gnarly stories of leptospirosis and the rest, however, best I can tell, I, nor anyone else consuming my water has. In fact, over the years, when having to travel, it was always a drag to have to leave my super clean water behind. Even now, living on the kona-side of this island, I haul water from my homestead as it is unmatched. Again fwiw, I run two tanks, so the second one gets filled by the first off the gutter, which 'cleans' it ala, well in a way not unlike how some pool filters sort of work. I have a little sediment filter. (caveat: don't use my techniques dear readers. use UV filters and ... masks if need be!) Nah. And then, at the end, I run a 1/2 carbon 1/2 calcite filter to harden the water a bit. (Then I can caffeinate with fine taste. But, by all means I rescind my OS-kvetching until your water clears up. ...then if there's a crustier version of Gossip that plays nice with OS 11 ...?) Aloha.