Bottled Water vs. Tap Water

Two decades ago, English tap water was entered unknown into a contest to find the best bottled water. With No.20 top, it came No. 17.

I don't like filters. When I worked in a lab many years ago we had to continually change filters as they grew bacteria in them so fast, despite our best efforts. Ideally, tap water filters should be changed weekly (certainly in a warmish room), otherwise you could be drinking polluted water.
 
Myles. Why leave them in the fridge? We stored viruses at -70.C and even then products had a shelf life as they went off after time. A fridge at about +4.C is going to do nothing to any living contaminants.

It does make you wonder about some "spring water" when they take so many millions of bottles from it every day that you'd need Niagara falls to supply it.
 
sandy said:
I think Dasani just lost a huge law suit. I tried it once. It tasted metallic.

You guys can laugh at me all you want. Do some of your own blind taste-tests.

I'm not laughing at you Sandy but I would dearly love you to help me settle a bet with myself.

Something tells me that in addition to drinking pure water and cranberry juice you
1 Jog 2. Meditate 3 Read lots of self-help books. Am I right ?

Ps Can I look forward to meeting you in Europe and taking you to a number of spas where you can drink to your heart's content and debate water quality with the locals ?
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Myles said:
sandy said:
I think Dasani just lost a huge law suit. I tried it once. It tasted metallic.
You guys can laugh at me all you want. Do some of your own blind taste-tests.
I'm not laughing at you Sandy but I would dearly love you to help me settle a bet with myself.
Something tells me that in addition to drinking pure water and cranberry juice you
1 Jog 2. Meditate 3 Read lots of self-help books. Am I right ?
Ps Can I look forward to meeting you in Europe and taking you to a number of spas where you can drink to your heart's content and debate water quality with the locals ?
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LOL! :D No jogging. That's for flat chicks. Only meditate on the Word of God. Only read the Bible and Christian books. I will never go back to Europe so our chance of meeting is nill. Sorry. But if you ever come to CA, IL, or DC, let me know. :)
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kaneda said:
Myles. Why leave them in the fridge? We stored viruses at -70.C and even then products had a shelf life as they went off after time. A fridge at about +4.C is going to do nothing to any living contaminants.

It does make you wonder about some "spring water" when they take so many millions of bottles from it every day that you'd need Niagara falls to supply it.
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Straight from the tap the water can sometimes have a hint of chlorine. Leaving it in the fridge for a day removes any taste of chlorine that might be present, if not the trace of chlorine itself.

As far as bugs are concerned, I trust my water company to deliver a quality product. To the best of my knowledge there have never been any cases of tap water having a deleterious effect on anyone in my area. Had it happened, it would certainly have made the headlines in our local newspaper.
 
sandy said:
Myles said:
LOL! :D No jogging. That's for flat chicks. Only meditate on the Word of God. Only read the Bible and Christian books. I will never go back to Europe so our chance of meeting is nill. Sorry. But if you ever come to CA, IL, or DC, let me know. :)
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I've been to CA on business on three occasions and , with the exception of San Francisco, I found little to make me want to return.

If you only read the bible and Christian books how on earth do you know what's going on in the world ? Divine revelation ?

Talking to you reminds me of a rhyme which could have been written with you in mind:

I knew a girl who was so pure,
She couldn't say the word manure

Bye xxx
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the only time i ever drank bottled water was in japan where the tap water tasted like arse. bottled water is just tap water from the city. my water comes straight from the bore behind my house.
 
vslayer said:
the only time i ever drank bottled water was in japan where the tap water tasted like arse. bottled water is just tap water from the city. my water comes straight from the bore behind my house.
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I agree with the point you are making but am intrigued to know how you came to know what arse tastes liked.
 
Myles said:
sandy said:
I've been to CA on business on three occasions and , with the exception of San Francisco, I found little to make me want to return.

If you only read the bible and Christian books how on earth do you know what's going on in the world ? Divine revelation ?

Talking to you reminds me of a rhyme which could have been written with you in mind:

I knew a girl who was so pure,
She couldn't say the word manure

Bye xxx
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CA is the most beautiful state in the nation. We have everything. This is God's country with the ocean, the mountains, the perfect weather....

He was talking about books. The only *book* I read are Christian-based. I won't read secular cr@p. Garbage in=garbage out. Of course I read news on the net and see some on FOX.:)
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sandy said:
CA is the most beautiful state in the nation. We have everything. This is God's country with the ocean, the mountains, the perfect weather....
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The reason we have so many Christians in California is that they can talk to God for free because it's a local call. :)

But it's a huge state, the third largest in the country and it would cover a good portion of Western Europe. 700 miles tall and 250 miles wide. (1100 x 400km) Naturally there's quite a diversity of scenery and culture. We live in the extreme northwest, which might as well be Oregon. Endless forests, rocky beaches, rural communities with an occasional "city" of 30,000 people, high temperatures 70F (22C) in the summer, lows 35F (1C) in the winter. But we spent most of our lives in Los Angeles, one of the world's largest metropolitan areas with ethnic cultures from all over the globe, beaches like Hawaii, and basically desert weather.
 
Bottled water all the way.

Evian is possibly the most healthy.

In most states in America, and infact in the Uk, they add, as everyone knows, chloride...a disgusting, awful tasting poison. And also, they add, amongst other things, fluoride ...which is supposedly healthy for teeth growth, condition and strength. however, it has been proven that it can have ghastly consequences, including rotting of the jaw bone and other alarming things.
 
Evian did very well against the others I had tested. It was in the top 5 along with Penta and the gallon of Wal-Mart water. Seriously, that kind of blew us away. :)
 
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