Thread: For all you deluded"bottled-water aficionados"
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Old 11.21.2007, 01:36 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
here's news for you geeks:
it's fucking bottled tap water. these people are making a killing on TAP WATER.

tit, that's not true.

SOME bottle waters are tap waters. but they are PURIFIED tap waters-- MINUS the chlorine, fluoride, and other contaminants. if you want to call them contaminants or not it's up to you. i fucking hate chlorine.

anyway you could get pretty much the same result, without buying bottles, with a decent filter. that's what i do for cooking/coffee/tea etc. however in some situations the bottler (like coca cola or pepsi or nestle) will have much more sophisticated filtration/purification equipment that some $30 home thing, and more importantly, some people will not even take care of the filter properly.

OTHER bottle waters are spring waters, which means they come straight from the ground. they are still purified etc, so people don't drink feces. spring water is delicious, kicks the taste of tap water in the ass. as i said before, my cat (non-marketing influenced) loves volvic. he can't tell me why exactly but he loves it.

MINERAL water is tasty. i love it with a good meal. sparking mineral water kicks nasty soda in the ass.

but anyway, look, this is from the FDA

some quotes:

"Because lead can leach from pipes as water travels from water utilities to home faucets, the EPA set an action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb) in tap water. This means that when lead levels are above 15 ppb in tap water that reaches home faucets, water utilities must treat the water to reduce the lead levels to below 15 ppb. In bottled water, where lead pipes are not used, the lead limit is set at 5 ppb. Based on FDA survey information, bottlers can readily produce bottled water products with lead levels below 5 ppb. This action was consistent with the FDA's goal of reducing consumers' exposure to lead in drinking water to the extent practicable."

"Bottled water is produced and regulated exclusively for human consumption," Kay says. "Some people in their municipal markets have the luxury of good water. Others do not."

read up & get informed before repeating misinformation
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