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“Much is being made of the benefits of natural water but all water needs to be processed so that we can drink it.” Kevin Prior, water and wastewater chemical scientist
I was watching 60 minutes last night and Andy Rooney came on and began discussing different types of bottled water. He pointed out that there were hundreds of different types of bottled water on the market. Rooney’s questions were was bottled water safer than tap water and was there a difference in expensive bottled water versus cheap bottled water? He also spoke to a researcher whose specialty was investigating water purity and content. The researcher told Rooney that there was very little difference in the contents of bottled waters that he had tested. He told Rooney that he personally drinks tap water.
What’s funny is that we make lemonade, Kool-aid, and coffee with tap water, but we are afraid to drink plain tap water (at least some of us who insist on consuming bottled water).
We are obsessed with drinking all-natural water, however when we find water during our outdoor excursions we run the water through a man-made purifier or treat it with purifying tablets. When drinking water from streams we are generally advised to purify water even if it appears crystal clear. Why do this? Why not take advantage of all-natural water? Because all-natural water may contain harmful microbes.fficeffice" />
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for the conveinece factor alone the idea is brilliant. But other than that, when near my farm, I always consume my own spring fed well water. I carry it by the gallon in my car. My friends love it too.
The other place bottled water works for me is when I travel. If I drink tap water when I travel I often get intestinal problems. So I generally stick to big store brand bottled water. This especially in places like Mexico or India where the sewage systems are very questionable. My instict tells me this is a better choice...
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I tend not to like the taste of bottled waters. I can taste the plastic taste really strongly.
I prefer to get my water from the soda fountains in restaurants if I have a choice. They are almost always run through a filtration system (all the ones I've worked around have been charcoal) and it's nice and cold.
I don't like ice in my water, so I like the water to be pre-cooled
I'll drink the bottles if I have to, but I don't like them.
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Based on what I've read, there are a few problems with bottled water:
1) Inexpensive bottled water IS actually tap water. Sometimes it's shipped a short distance, which can result in someone in San Francisco (where tap water is pretty decent) drinking bottled tap water from LA (awful tap water).
2) Bottled water companies are often exploiting natural resources - taking them without adequate compensation for the local area. Because of their ability to compensate a stellar legal team, the companies are virtually invincible from local residents who may try to stop them using the law.
3) The consumption of bottled water creates huge amounts of plastic trash - plastic that is made with petroleum. Such a small percentage of bottles are recycled, and even if they were, they cannot be recycled into more water bottles.
I filter my tap water and place it in a reusable stainless steel container when I'm going to be away from home. My kids and husband use similar containers. I purchased them from a company called "Klean Kanteen" and really like them.
If I were in a foreign country like Mexico, where water quality were suspect, I would use bottled water, because there would be a good reason to do so. Where I live, it's not necessary.
The water around here tastes a little weird so I have a filter on my refrigerator (after market) that improves the taste. I use the metal containers to tote it around. My husband always teases me about the potential of dying of dehydration if I forget my bottle.
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does, maybe it doesn’t. When blind tests are conducted, the taste
buds really don’t seem to think so. In 2001, ABC’s Good Morning America conducted a blind water taste test. The viewers
preferences were as follows: 12 percent Evian, 19 percent O-2,
24 percent Poland Spring, and 45 percent New York City tap.
The Yorkshire England water company found that 60 percent of
2800 people surveyed could not tell the difference between the
local tap water and the UK’s bottled water.
The hosts of Showtime’s television series Penn & Teller: Bullshit conducted a blind taste test comparing waters. The test
showed that 75 percent of New Yorkers preferred city tap to
bottled waters. The hosts of the show conducted another test in a
trendy southern California restaurant that featured a water
sommelier who dispensed extravagant water menus to the
patrons. The patrons had no idea that all of the fancy bottles of
water were filled with the same water from a water hose in the
back of the restaurant. Patrons were willing to pay $7.00 a bottle
for L’eau Du Robinet (French for faucet water), Agua de Culo
(Spanish for ass water), and Amazone (filtered through the
Brazilian rainforest’s natural filtration system). I love that
experiment."
Penn & Teller. The Truth about Bottled Water from http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfP AjUvvnIc
I saw show on this once. When you buy 'cheap' bottled water it may start as tap water, but is generally filtered very very well. The problem with 'pure' filtered water is that it tastes like crap. If you look at a bottle of Dasani (Pepsi's cheap bottled water) they add back in things like sodium in order to make it taste better. The more expensive bottled waters taste good because they are coming from some aquifer and have most of the minerals, etc... left in them (obviously any microbials are killed for safety).
I've been lucky enough to live in places with decent tasting water, so my preference has always been tap or tap run through one of the brita charcoal filter bottles.
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On another thread I was teasing people about the Starbucks water--my theory was that they were filling the bottles up with a hose around the back of the building.
One of the most outrageous claims I heard was when I was working with a caterer and a guy was trying to sell us on some bottled water for our events. He kept saying "This is the only carbon neutral water you can get." OK, wait now. This was WATER from ICELAND that had been transported THOUSANDS of miles to some poor schmuck who thinks it's carbon-neutral??!!!
(But I will say that I CAN taste the difference between the filtered and the tap. My husband, who often scoffs at me, subjected me to a taste test and I won. I'm not talking about bottled though, that stuff tastes stale to me and the thought of paying $2 for water is a little rich.)
(But I will say that I CAN taste the difference between the filtered and the tap. My husband, who often scoffs at me, subjected me to a taste test and I won. I'm not talking about bottled though, that stuff tastes stale to me and the thought of paying $2 for water is a little rich.)
I agree. When I buy bottled water it's purely for convenience (or safety in another country). Most of the time I have a full jug of filtered tap water with me
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