{"id":468,"date":"2010-10-01T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/splnlss.local\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:36:18","slug":"alvisos-medicinal-all-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/splnlss.local\/alvisos-medicinal-all-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/All-Salt.com
\n<\/a>By Morgan Levy + Jon Cohrs<\/p>\n

Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is a site-specific\u00c2\u00a0project\u00c2\u00a0created as part of the\u00c2\u00a001SJ Biennial<\/a>.
\nAlviso’s Medicinal All-Salt is a unique low-dosage cocktail of our most commonly used drugs, all brought together in one simple salty remedy.<\/p>\n

Alviso\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Medicinal All-Salt<\/a> was a collaboration with Morgan Levy a water researcher from UC Berkeley. Most of the U.S. water supply contains various pharmaceuticals from both humans and livestock. We harvest and bottle them to create a perfect aggregate of what America is taking to heal itself.<\/p>\n

All-Salt<\/a> is hand-harvested from the salt waters of Artesian Slough, outside the small town of Alviso, California where the pharmaceutical-rich waters of the Silicon Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s local wastewater treatment plant meet the San Francisco Bay and the old Cargill Company salt evaporation ponds.<\/p>\n

Sewage piped from urban Bay Area communities to water treatment plants along the Bay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edges drain treated wastewater into Bay waters. Wastewater treatment plants filter out most toxic contaminants, but not the pharmaceuticals that many of us flush down our toilets \u00e2\u20ac\u201c anything from antibiotics to antidepressants that are not completely absorbed by our bodies. Valuable drug compounds make it through treatment intact and collect in the Bay, where they are available to be re-harvested and re-used. We then turn around and sell it in cure-all salty solution that is for sale at festivals, online, and at organic street fairs.<\/p>\n