Check your bottled water!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:31 am

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articl ... 21&catID=2

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:30 am

ain't that the truth

i used to live in Berkeley Springs, WV - where the town source is a spring - the spring gravity feeds into a chlorination plant and then out to the people - tanker truck filled up at the plant, took it 3 blocks, dechlorinated it, put it in gallon jugs and sold it to folks in dc and baltimore - the only real feature of this water is that the water has been underground for approx 80 years and doesn't contain any radioactivity

they finally had to put extra treatment in the water plant 'cause little thingys were living in the water - can't imagine how - on a hot day my kids and a lot of others used to spend a lot of time in those springs

a bunch of clever but aging hippies have also managed to create an annual festival of the waters,

http://www.berkeleysprings.com/water/

where people come from all over to "taste" all the bottled waters - good for sprucing up a slow tourist season i guess

Post by **sbp** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:46 am

The most telling taste test was conducted by the Showtime television series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! The hosts began with a blind comparison in which 75 percent of New Yorkers preferred city tap to bottled waters. They then went to the Left Coast and set up a hidden camera at a trendy southern California restaurant that featured a water sommelier who dispensed elegant water menus to the patrons. All bottles were filled out of the same hose in the back of the restaurant; nevertheless, Angelenos were willing to plunk down nearly $7 a bottle for L'eau Du Robinet (French for "faucet water"), Agua de Culo (Spanish for "ass water") and Amazone ("filtered through the Brazilian rain forest's natural filtration system"), declaring them all to be far superior to tap water. There's no accounting for taste.

:lol

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:21 am

The moron Genepool has been getting larger every year!

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:22 pm

I never got the whole phase of bottled water....goes back to that whole george carlin skit

Syn · Post by **Syn** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:46 pm

Originally posted by Hipnotic_Tranz
I never got the whole phase of bottled water....goes back to that whole george carlin skit

Me either.Next craze will be bottled air.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:50 pm

Well to be fair, the New York City tap water test is an unfair one. New York has excellent tap water - highest rated in the country. It gets piped in from the mountains upstate, and the water is so pure that it only requires the slightest amount of chlorine.

When we moved from NY to Miami in 1978, we couldn't believe how bad the water tasted there.

I have a 125' well here, and it tastes delicious right out of the ground, although we use a softner to get rid of the excess minerals.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:23 pm

I have well water too.. and i perfer its sulfer rotten egg smell and taste any day over bottled. Bottled has no flavor at all. and that i hate. i like a slight hint of sulfer in my water!

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:20 pm

I used to buy bottled water - not evian or the like, but those reverse osmosis fill-it-yourself stands in grocery stores. .39 for a gallon was a small pricer to pay for good water. Out water is heavily Chlorinated and tastes like crap if you drink it in a glass. Strong chlorine taste to it!

Then, I read somewhere that just leaving your water standing for a bit lets the chlorine and other chems evaporate out, so I do that now - and it tastes just as good as the reverse-osmosis stuff I used to get.

So try that sometime.. Fill up a couple of gallon jugs with water.. Let em sit out for 4-5 hours, then taste it - it's EXCELLENT then!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:58 pm

Those fill-the-up yourself machines outside the grocery store are the worst ripoff. Since it's open air, and you're providing your own bottle, there's no way to guarantee the cleanliness of the water - the spout's exposed to whatever the last customer rubbed on it. Also they're generally poorly maintained.

They randomly tested those machines in a city a few years back and found that the water they produced had more bacteria than tap water.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:13 pm

Our house is on a well and the water kicks ass... but the city i work in the water is so heavily clorinated you can actually use it in your pool and don't need to worry abouty adding clorine for a while. ITs that bad you can smell and taste the shit. Only time i buy bottled water is if i need something to drink and don't want a pop or ice tea when i'm at a mini mart. We get Culligan bottled water at work. I could care less if it comes straight from the stinky clorine city water. It don't smell like clorine or taste like it so thats fine by me...

Lady In Red · Post by **Lady In Red** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:18 pm

I don't drink bottled water. Use to have well-water but recently hooked up to city water.

I guess the thing that gets me is knowing where water has been and the way they it's recycled back to us to drink.

Doesn't matter if it comes from your own well or out of a bottle!!

They all have their short-comings!