- Water.
Whether it's smart, sparkling, or secretly vodka,
it's all around us.
But a new movement believes that just like Trump
we're drinking water all wrong.
- The so-called raw water trend.
- Something called raw water.
- Raw water. - Raw water.
- [Reporter] Techies in San Francisco are guzzling it
by the gallon-full.
- [Newscaster] And stores that sell raw water
are running out.
- From Bernie Bros to Silicon Valley,
raw water is the health trend of 2018.
And leading the movement is the clothing-optional founder
of Live Water Mukhande Singh.
I couldn't wait to see what this raw lifestyle is all about.
(audience laughing)
Oh, you wore clothes.
We're not doing...
Okay, what exactly is raw water?
- So raw water is unsterilized, pristine springwater
that still has a lot of the healthy probiotics in it.
- There are probiotics in live water?
Like the stuff that Jamie Lee Curtis keeps on pushing?
- Yeah. This is the healthiest choice for water.
- Live Water's thousands and thousands of customers agree,
even though the mainstream is pretty skeptical.
- Water is water.
It doesn't have probiotics in it.
- Dammit. Clothes again.
(audience laughing) Oh!
Why shouldn't I drink raw water?
- You could get sick.
People going out and drinking from streams is risky.
- But some might say that raw water
is the most pristine water you can drink.
- It might be, but how do you know what's upstream from it?
There might be animals contaminating it
or human waste contaminating it.
- Okay, but what are your qualifications?
- A doctorate in molecular biology
and a masters in public health nutrition.
- Okay. Touche.
And Mukhande's qualification?
- I've studied a lot of yoga
and self-meditation and journeying.
(audience laughing) - Okay.
But even without mainstream degrees,
Mukhande's businesses is skyrocketing.
After all, he's selling the one thing that lasts forever.
- So, live water is freshest within one lunar cycle
because it can turn green if the water gets too hot.
- I'm sorry.
I thought I heard you say that the water turns green.
- It turns green because there's healthy microbes in it.
- I'll be right back.
Got it healthy water should turn green.
- Well, no, it shouldn't.
Water is water. It's clear.
- But it's clear until one lunar cycle.
Are you following?
- Not at all.
Most people in the world would give anything
to have a clean water supply.
What's wrong with turning on a tap?
I'll ask the questions here.
What's so wrong about tap water?
- So top water has a lot of synthetic things
like fluoride and chloramine.
- Oh my God.
- Fluoride? We put fluoride in the water
to prevent tooth decay.
These are great public health achievements.
- Okay, so fluoride is good.
- No. Fluoride makes people more docile.
It's a mind-control drug.
- The government is controlling our minds with fluoride?
- They could be.
- Oh shit.
- What mind-control drugs?
- That sounds like something someone would say
who's being controlled by the mind.
- I don't understand what the...
I don't even understand the question.
I mean, this guy is a charlatan
who's part of a whole anti-science movement.
- [Desi] But if fluoride being a government-induced
mind-control drug is anti-science,
where's Live Water getting all these science-y charts
and evidence?
- There's a lot of evidence to support that
if you just go to the third page of Google.
- The third page of Google?
- That's where it really makes sense.
- When you say evidence, do you mean conspiracy theory?
- It's not a conspiracy if it's true.
You know, 9/11.
I think we all know what really happened there.
- What really happened there?
- Just go to the third page of Google.
(audience laughing) - Okay.
So I did, but the only thing I discovered about 9/11
is that it's Ludacris' birthday.
And the only thing I discovered about Live Water is that...
Holy shit! How much does this cost?
- Two and a half gallon glass jugs are $22 each.
(audience gasping)
And then 12 to $16 per jug.
- So basically it's like the cost of a bottle of water
and then lighting $28 on fire.
- It's a new idea.
I can understand why there might be hesitation,
but I recommend people try it.
- Well just like I told Wolf Blitzer at that cocktail party,
I'll try anything once.
So I agreed to venture deep into the wilderness.
- So here is our beautiful spring.
- [Desi] This is where you get water.
- [Mukhande] You wanna try some?
- Yeah, I'll wait for you go first
and then I'll get right to it.
(calm instrumental music) (audience laughing)
(Mukhande slurping)
- Oh god, please don't let there be a dead body up stream.
(audience laughing) (calm instrumental music)
(Desi slurping)
- [Mukhande] Taste good, huh?
- It tastes like water.
- Yeah, with healthy probiotics and minerals in it.
- Probably a little bit of animal poop.
(audience laughing)
- Just say hypothetically I tried just a little bit
of spring water.
What's the worst thing that could happen?
- You could get dysentery.
You could get cholera.
You could get giardia.
- The Oregon Trail diseases?
Oh God.
- All the Oregon Trail diseases
and all the new ones that have come since.
- Does someone have a bucket?
In the end, much like the Oregon Trail, raw water
and other anti-science movements will probably forge ahead.
But as for me, I feared a different fate.
(Desi throwing up) (audience laughing)
(upbeat instrumental music)