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Post by Carolina on Feb 20, 2012 9:58:47 GMT
o yes you are quite right but for our own personal worries and my poor husband's skin etc etc once we get the water ysis from Scotland we propose to talk with the Water Department here on RT and also make it an important issue at the townhall RT residents meeting - actually does anyone know when this will take place?
Thanks
Carolina
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Post by RT_Aramcon on Apr 12, 2012 6:00:00 GMT
Carolina, just curious what the "water checks" revealed? I assume you had the RT water yzed in Scotland during your holiday.
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Post by Carolina on Apr 12, 2012 18:29:10 GMT
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Yes if you could kindly PM me I can certainly give you the latest information.
Thank you
Carolina
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Post by jknow on Apr 16, 2012 17:47:04 GMT
Why is something that was once a very public conversation now only allowed through PM to one person?
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Post by soverydeb on Apr 16, 2012 17:53:27 GMT
I was wondering the very same thing....
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Post by vpainter on Apr 16, 2012 18:10:02 GMT
jknow, writing from within KSA, this is monitored. Care would be taken at that point as regarding a post I did a while back on the new laws of KSA regarding things said in a public forum. You can search my posts for that posting if you'd like.
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Post by jknow on Apr 19, 2012 18:57:04 GMT
Thanks vpainter. We've never had a problem with our water, I don't drink it, but I do shower in it. No problems in 4 years.
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Post by Hadia on Apr 25, 2012 3:04:45 GMT
We're not in RT, we're in DH, but we've experienced rapid and significant hair loss in our household with the shower water. Shampooing under the sweet water tap has helped tremendously. When you consider how quickly kitchen items go to rust if left with raw water on them (say, from hand washing a knife in the sink and setting it aside without a sweet water rinse), it makes you wonder what that raw water is doing when left on your skin. We've only had trouble with the sweet water when it was cross contaminated for a couple of days with raw water. This was during a time when the utility workers were doing something to pipes under the street. They resolved the issue. The way we discovered the problem was slightly amusing: talk about the worst pot of coffee you've ever had in your life!!
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Post by Twofeets on Apr 25, 2012 4:17:41 GMT
While Im not having any problems, my wife's hair is falling out bad. For those who say 'maybe its other factors such as age', shes 24! Every time she takes a shower it comes out in clumps  . Shes tried several fancy conditioners, we bought a water filter from the US, but its still falling out. |
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Post by vpainter on Apr 25, 2012 7:19:33 GMT
Go to the clinic. Doctor approval can get you exceptions. Ask for one for a sweet water shower.
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Post by GroveWanderer on Apr 25, 2012 12:58:35 GMT
The issue of the raw water causing skin problems is definitely not a recent problem, I've been aware of it for over 20 years. About six months after I first arrived in Dhahran I went to a doctor here for advice about the skin problems I was starting to have, especially in the face and scalp area. His advice was to use only sweet water to wash my face and hair as the raw water was probably the cause of the problems. I was not suffering from any stress at the time, I had settled in well, liked the place and was having a great time. Over the years, I've had many conversations with friends and neighbours about this and on a totally unscientific, personal basis, I would say more than 50% of the people I talk to are aware of skin and hair problems that seem to get worse when they're in kingdom and better when they're on vacation in areas with better water quality. Just because some people have not had a problem with the water here, does not mean other people don't. Also, I've already posted links in other threads to scientific articles giving evidence of a link between water with a high mineral content and skin problems. Here's an extract from just one, published on the website of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, Insute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Although the article deals primarily with the question of drinking hard water (which contains less minerals than the raw water here) and concludes that it is not a health hazard when drunk, it also points out the following: elkhorn.unl.edu/epublic/pages/pu ... tionId=175 |
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Post by frachang168 on May 2, 2012 13:32:11 GMT
I seem to remember reading somewhere in the forum that Aramco was changing the raw water over to sweet water in the Dhahran camp. Is this happening? Or is it going to happen? I will be moving to Dhahran camp in a few months and have been concerned about the raw water issues. Thanks.
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Post by vpainter on May 2, 2012 22:24:29 GMT
We keep hearing its going to happen, but it hasn't yet.
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Post by bdboggan on May 7, 2012 13:03:20 GMT
I know a guy in the utilities dept and he has told me that the project to convert DH is moving forward. However, like everthing else.....be patient. Unfortunatley, especially for us in RT, he said there is a design package to convert over RT to sweet water but there in not currently a plan to implement it any time soon.
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Post by carrottop on May 25, 2012 4:24:56 GMT
I am so new. What is Sweet Water and Raw Water? What are there specific uses and ehat are the family limits? Costs?
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. Shes tried several fancy conditioners, we bought a water filter from the US, but its still falling out.