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Old 05-10-2007   #3 (permalink)
koiczar
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The ponds may be similar but what's in the water is not! The Japanese rely on snow melt and spring snow melt runoff to fill the mud ponds. And the water that does run down through the mountains has different types of minerals. That's why their water is softer than ours.
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