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Bottled water

#1

Bowielee

Bowielee

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis ... led-water/

Yeah, this falls under a big "no shit Sherlock".

You may actually be drinking tap water.
Case in point: Dasani, a Coca-Cola product. Despite its exotic-sounding name, Dasani is simply purified tap water that’s had minerals added back in. For example, if your Dasani water was bottled at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Philadelphia, you’re drinking Philly tap water. But it’s not the only brand of water that relies on city pipes to provide its product. About 25 percent of all bottled water is taken from municipal water sources, including Pepsi’s Aquafina.
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I loved the Penn and Teller episode about bottled water.


#2

Cajungal

Cajungal

GASP!


#3



Chibibar

Heh.. I knew that :) (at least the tap water thing)

I always figure it was filtered and stuff.


#4

Bowielee

Bowielee

And of course, this old chestnut.

"Evian is Niave spelled backwards"


#5





This and more in this month's issue of DUH! Magazine


#6



Heavan

Good thing I only drink bottled water for the convenient bottle, and not its smooooth taste.

Mmm... bottled water... :drool:


#7

Cajungal

Cajungal

"This is more watery than water. This has a water KICK to it." --Jim Gaffigan


#8

Fun Size

Fun Size

This is why I only drink my own urine.


#9

Baerdog

Baerdog

Are you Bear Grylls?


#10

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

Fun Size said:
This is why I only drink my own urine.
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Ah, you enjoy Bear Grylls Champagne!


#11

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I drink bottled water simply because I don't have any way of filtering my own water.


#12

Wahad

Wahad

Shegokigo said:
I drink bottled water simply because I don't have any way of filtering my own water.
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It's that bad?

Wow.


#13

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Most definitely. It's well known you don't drink the water from tap down here.


#14

Wahad

Wahad

*shrug* I guess I shouldn't be surprised, as France has some bad places too, but it just seems odd to me, as Holland has no badwater-tap at all.

Then again, it's a tiny country.


#15





Call me naive, but would a Brita filter or something help with said tap water?

Speaking for myself, this is like old news to the power of ancient. I've been using an aluminum bottle for quite awhile, now.


#16



Chibibar

well.. some country (like Taiwan) you don't wanna drink the tap water.


#17

Wahad

Wahad

Chibibar said:
well.. some country (like Taiwan) you don't wanna drink the tap water.
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I know that, just didn't think the US of A would have such problems too.


#18

Jake

Jake

I installed a filtered water tap on my sink and fill a big stainless bottle to take to work. It irks me to pay for bottled water at convenience stores when I'm out and about and thirsty, but it's better than buying soda and beats sucking on the bathroom faucet to save a buck. I don't get people that have tons of small water bottles around the house.

A Brita pitcher isn't the best way to go, but it's better than nothing, I guess.


#19

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Wahad said:
Chibibar said:
well.. some country (like Taiwan) you don't wanna drink the tap water.
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I know that, just didn't think the US of A would have such problems too.
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By far most municipalities in the US have better water on tap than what you get in the convenience store. There are a few that will have odd taste or particulate matter in them. The water where I am is safe, it does not taste funny, but when you hold it up to the light there is a bunch of white stuff floating in it.

I still drink the tap at home. I drink bottle water at work because I like my drinks cold.


#20

chris

chris

i actually had to search, i never heard of that water.
apparently it`s called Bonaqa here and so i understand .
Bonaqa is something we call "Tafelwasser" which is not a natural mineralized water.
companies has to label their water "Tafelwasser" or "Mineralwasser" and you know what you buy.

and the tabwater is one of the most observed food here, like holland


#21

E

Eliwood

Wahad said:
Chibibar said:
well.. some country (like Taiwan) you don't wanna drink the tap water.
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I know that, just didn't think the US of A would have such problems too.
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There are running jokes about stuff like that in the Central Valley of California, at least. In my home town, "don't drink the water" is a common comment when someone is traveling to Bakersfield. Then again, people make fun of Bakersfield for a lot of things.


#22

Cajungal

Cajungal

The tap water in my college town tastes awful. It's a shame, because it's apparently some of the best in the state. The geologists in town have concluded that it's kept really pure because of some... rocks or something. Damned if I know, but it's common knowledge that it's good. It's a shame I haven't gotten used to it yet. I try to drink a little of it every day, but it's just ...bleh. I prefer the water in my hometown, which is probably more dirty. Go figure.


#23

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Wahad said:
Chibibar said:
well.. some country (like Taiwan) you don't wanna drink the tap water.
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I know that, just didn't think the US of A would have such problems too.
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The USA is a big place. Where I live, people don't even have access to city water. All of my running water comes from a well connected to the aquifer, and an electric water pump. While the water is clean and safe to drink, any time the local river runs, it contaminates the water, requiring that I switch to bottled for several months.


#24

Wahad

Wahad



#25

Jake

Jake

US tap water is "safe", it can just taste weird. Though drinking chlorinated sanitizing compounds and fluorine is iffy at best (they're strong oxidizers, and it's good to keep consumption of those to a minimum).

Also, I grew up drinking Kentucky well water that had so much calcium carbonate in it that it would precipitate when chilled. I've never broken a bone, though.


#26

Shakey

Shakey

Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.


#27

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Shakey said:
Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
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They are corrupting our precious bodily fluids.


#28



Chibibar

sixpackshaker said:
Shakey said:
Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
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They are corrupting our precious bodily fluids.
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and put rainbow in our water!


#29



The Mike

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g:y7pvzhud][/youtube:y7pvzhud]

Some water fun


#30

@Li3n

@Li3n

last time i used bottled water to any serious extent was in Greece... apparently, in that region at least, tap water isn't drinkable... too much limestone in it or something.


#31

Gared

Gared

Having worked in the water industry (but for industrial use high purity water), I can offer this one piece of extremely important advice. If anyone ever offers you High Purity, Reverse Osmosis, De-ionized water; run the fuck away. Seriously. Drinking that stuff for a long enough period of time can kill you, or at least make you severely ill.

RO/DI water that has been filtered by a good system can strip almost everything except two hydrogens and an oxygen from the water; leaving it with a conductivity of nearly zero. Theoretically (and this has been tested at some labs) if you're wearing a clean suit and standing in a pool of RO/DI water and someone drops a high voltage power line in; you'll be fine. There is nothing left in the water to conduct electricity. Companies like Intel and AMD use this stuff to wash circuit boards after the soldering process is completed.

Drinking it will strip the nutrients out of your body and leave you more dehydrated that you were before you drank it.

The company that I worked for actually use to service Boeing, and one day our techs walked in to one of the system locations on the Boeing campus in South Seattle to find that the system had disappeared (and we're talking several 4 foot tall resin tanks and a carbon tank plus all of the piping and tubing, not a small thing). They hunted around for it, called back to our service desk, got Boeing on the phone, and were finally told that it had been moved to a different office (which totally broke their contract, but that's neither here nor there). The techs got to the new location and the people in that location were using the system to run a drinking fountain and a coffee pot. The techs had to pull the system out and take everything back to the shop because it's not safe to drink. Idiot engineers.


#32



Mr_Chaz

Dasani got withdrawn in the UK once people found out it was just mains Thames water. Millions of people who get that out of their taps suddenly stopped buying it. I wonder why?


#33

Hylian

Hylian

I will drink bottled water if I am on the go. I never really believed I was drinking anything special I just prefer sugar free drinks and usually water is the ne most gas stations and the like carry.


#34

Cajungal

Cajungal

I drink Kentwood water out of the jug now, but I'll get bottles if I'm gonna be out all day. If I'm going to work, I just bring the jug and a mug with me. There are no recycling bins at my complex, but there are big recycling receptacles on campus and at my grocery store just down the road, so that's convenient.


#35

Jake

Jake

Gared said:
Having worked in the water industry (but for industrial use high purity water), I can offer this one piece of extremely important advice. If anyone ever offers you High Purity, Reverse Osmosis, De-ionized water; run the fuck away. Seriously. Drinking that stuff for a long enough period of time can kill you, or at least make you severely ill.

RO/DI water that has been filtered by a good system can strip almost everything except two hydrogens and an oxygen from the water; leaving it with a conductivity of nearly zero. Theoretically (and this has been tested at some labs) if you're wearing a clean suit and standing in a pool of RO/DI water and someone drops a high voltage power line in; you'll be fine. There is nothing left in the water to conduct electricity. Companies like Intel and AMD use this stuff to wash circuit boards after the soldering process is completed.

Drinking it will strip the nutrients out of your body and leave you more dehydrated that you were before you drank it.

The company that I worked for actually use to service Boeing, and one day our techs walked in to one of the system locations on the Boeing campus in South Seattle to find that the system had disappeared (and we're talking several 4 foot tall resin tanks and a carbon tank plus all of the piping and tubing, not a small thing). They hunted around for it, called back to our service desk, got Boeing on the phone, and were finally told that it had been moved to a different office (which totally broke their contract, but that's neither here nor there). The techs got to the new location and the people in that location were using the system to run a drinking fountain and a coffee pot. The techs had to pull the system out and take everything back to the shop because it's not safe to drink. Idiot engineers.
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DI water will also corrode stainless steel. You'd think people would be averse to drinking something like that.


#36

Gared

Gared

Jake said:
Gared said:
Having worked in the water industry (but for industrial use high purity water), I can offer this one piece of extremely important advice. If anyone ever offers you High Purity, Reverse Osmosis, De-ionized water; run the fuck away. Seriously. Drinking that stuff for a long enough period of time can kill you, or at least make you severely ill.

RO/DI water that has been filtered by a good system can strip almost everything except two hydrogens and an oxygen from the water; leaving it with a conductivity of nearly zero. Theoretically (and this has been tested at some labs) if you're wearing a clean suit and standing in a pool of RO/DI water and someone drops a high voltage power line in; you'll be fine. There is nothing left in the water to conduct electricity. Companies like Intel and AMD use this stuff to wash circuit boards after the soldering process is completed.

Drinking it will strip the nutrients out of your body and leave you more dehydrated that you were before you drank it.

The company that I worked for actually use to service Boeing, and one day our techs walked in to one of the system locations on the Boeing campus in South Seattle to find that the system had disappeared (and we're talking several 4 foot tall resin tanks and a carbon tank plus all of the piping and tubing, not a small thing). They hunted around for it, called back to our service desk, got Boeing on the phone, and were finally told that it had been moved to a different office (which totally broke their contract, but that's neither here nor there). The techs got to the new location and the people in that location were using the system to run a drinking fountain and a coffee pot. The techs had to pull the system out and take everything back to the shop because it's not safe to drink. Idiot engineers.
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DI water will also corrode stainless steel. You'd think people would be averse to drinking something like that.
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This is true. But then, in the case of Boeing, we are talking about people who decided to build a jetliner out of composite materials and can't figure out how to keep the wings attached to the fuselage during flight...


#37



Aisaku

Wow, now I know.

Also, in before someone mentions Mexico =P


#38

Wahad

Wahad

Aisaku said:
Wow, now I know.

Also, in before someone mentions Mexico =P
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Cue Cayewad in 3...


#39

Jay

Jay

I never understood the point of buying bottled water. You mean to tell me that we have to PAY ridiculous amounts of money for water that is put in a bottle over the sake of tap water? There are some countries out there that don't even have safe tap water to drink and some don't even have tap water at all. So you mean to tell me that our country's tap water is only good to clean our ass with? (along with the dishes and showering)

I got a fridge that makes it's own purified water and ice, so I'll just used the empty cokes bottles I've been using already. For those who don't have the means for such a fridge, a Brita jug and a faucet purifier is all that you need.

Reading all that stuff about the "enhanced water" is absolutely mind-blasting. I remember I bought one once (i was at the airport in punta-cana) and after finishing my bottle.... I was thirstier!


#40

Shakey

Shakey

I prefer my water caffeinated.


#41

Gared

Gared

I had a sugar free flavored water one time, I think by Dasani. It tasted like powder and felt dry in my mouth. I prefer my water wet.


#42



Chibibar

Gared said:
I had a sugar free flavored water one time, I think by Dasani. It tasted like powder and felt dry in my mouth. I prefer my water wet.
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just add water!! ;)
:rimshot:


#43

GasBandit

GasBandit

In Manitou Springs, Colorado, there are numerous public water fountains and taps that dispense mineral water direct from the aquifer. If mineral water is your thing, feel free to schlep on up there with your gigantic jugs and bottles to fill, they don't mind.

As for what Shego was saying, yes, there are towns in the US where you don't particularly want to drink the water. Most of these towns seem to share a distinct trait - proximity to Mexico.

I buy filtered water at the grocery store for 80 cents a gallon. I like the taste, and around here Brita filters just don't cut it sometimes.


#44



quandofloo

I buy bottled water for one very specific reasons. My children and my wife will not drink water out of a pitcher or out of the tap but if it is in a bottle they drink it almost exclusively.


#45

GasBandit

GasBandit

quandofloo said:
I buy bottled water for one very specific reasons. My children and my wife will not drink water out of a pitcher or out of the tap but if it is in a bottle they drink it almost exclusively.
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And when they're not looking, you refill the empty bottles from the tap, don't you?


#46

Seraphyn

Seraphyn

I just fill a bottle with tap water. Cheaper and tastes better then any bottled kind I ever had. Just make sure you clean the bottle regularly and it's all good.


#47



Wasabi Poptart

We were buying bottled water for a time, but I've gotten my husband and I both reusable quart-sized bottles that we can wash and refill with filtered water from our tap. Our water here is hard (a lot of mineral content) and it makes the water taste weird. Back in NJ I had well water. It was delicious and always cold.


#48

klew

klew

I buy a few gallon jugs and a case of Kirkland/Costco bottled water and store them in my Earthquake kit (Action Packer crate in the garage). They get replaced every first week of January (old ones get used, obviously).


#49



quandofloo

GasBandit said:
quandofloo said:
I buy bottled water for one very specific reasons. My children and my wife will not drink water out of a pitcher or out of the tap but if it is in a bottle they drink it almost exclusively.
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And when they're not looking, you refill the empty bottles from the tap, don't you?
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No, my wife does all the grocery shopping while I am at work so I don't have the opportunity to pull that off.


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