Ohhh tha bottled water. So good. You cant even tell it came from a tap

[Suave]

I'll sell you a kit.

[stantond]

Outstanding!! Keep a close watch on your mail for my check!  


Regards,

Malta

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Originally posted by Debonair
oooops
sorry dude, i'll stop bathing in your water supply
my bad

That's actually not a joke. Many municipal water services take their water directly from rivers. The same rivers that are used for dumping of sewage upstream.

Even if it's cleaned it's a pretty gruesome thought of drinking the water someone upstream flushed down the toilet.

Luckily we get our water from artificial ground water plants where lake water is filtered through natural process before the actual purification process.

[Habu]

I lived in Odessa Texas for a bit.

The day I arrived there I was parched from having flown a whole bunch of connecting flights that did not serve food and I had no American change to buy a coke with.

I got to my hotel and turned on the tap and drank 3 glasses of water in a row until I finally tasted how foul it was halfway through the 3rd glass.

I spent the next week sick as a dog.

I could not order fountain drinks at restaurants as they were made out of the same water. I had to drink bottled or canned beverages only.

Here in Canada the tap water is fine and I drink it all the time.

If you live in different parts of the world bottled water is either very necessary or a waste of money. I have experienced both.

[storch]

Originally posted by Shamus
"Spring water" comes from a well.

We have a tested pure well, my wife buys bottled "spring water" go figure

shamus

same here.

[Flatbar]

I was an Arrowhead delivery/salesman < their term > in the mid 70's. Very little has changed in that operation since. What has changed is the packaging and marketing of water.

Tap water varies so much from city to city and their muni suppliers in most states that the maximum allowed ppm of dissolved solids is detirmined by each muni system and it's capibilities.

Back then, in my home town of Santa Barbara, Ca. that statewide max was on average  750-900 ppm. Our muni supply had an average of 1100-1375ppm. These numbers were from raw water at the tap.

The market for bottled water in So. Cal. is huge because of the low quality of water we've had for some 70 years.

As for the quality of bottled water, my knowledge is limited to the product I sold and our direct competitors at the time.

Arrowhead offered several types of water but they were just the basics.

Spring Water. This was collected directly from the spring on Mt. Arrowhead, then it was trucked in glass lined tankers to their processing facility for filtration, QC and bottling, back then it was all glass bottles.

Pure Fresh. This was water taken from the muni supply at their bottling facility and processed. They would distill it and then replace some minerals to a saturation of 96ppm for flavor.

Flouridated. Same as Pure Fresh but with flouride added in a quantity that I can't remember , it was 30 years ago.

Distilled. The name describes the process. Heated to steam then evaporated and bottled.

Our competitor had one way of processing their their water, de-ionization. They had the same 'types' of available but the di process requires a well maintained process that can become a bacteria breeding ground if not done properly.

That is why it isn't a great idea to use that water vending device at the grocery store as your source for drinking water as they use the di process in most cases.

When I left Arrowhead we had just began selling a reverse osmosis device for under the sink processing. R/O wasn't accepted by most of my customers because of the plastic bladder it used. Glass was king back then.

Bacterial growth will happen if the bottle is reused w/o propper processing. That made a great selling point back then but is very true today. A bottle that is left in the sun will grow alge and bacteria no matter how pure the water is inside, the only thing it takes is time and an unfriendly environment.

The age of plastic has introduced another degree of threat that most people are oblivious to. That is the fact that most water isn't packaged in reuseable containers but they are reused and most times w/o propper washing. Most disposeable bottles cant be processed for reuse legaly unless they are recycled. The reason being that plastic leaches out chemicals into the water in a predictable manner once opened and exposed to the environment or left on the shelf too long.

I didn't mean for a WOT, I'll just end by saying that for over 35 years I've been using bottled water from sources I trust and I will continue until and if I move to someplace where you don't have to chew the tap water.

Anybody for 'Bundy Ice Tea'?

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Shamus
"Spring water" comes from a well.

We have a tested pure well, my wife buys bottled "spring water" go figure

shamus

That's a "Here's your sign" situation!

[mora]

I do buy bottled sometimes, because the tap water is not too good in my community. Not that it's unsafe to drink it, but I can't drink bad tasting water because of a childhood trauma(half a dozen dead mices in our water well).

[rpm]

Originally posted by Flatbar
Our competitor had one way of processing their their water, de-ionization. They had the same 'types' of available but the di process requires a well maintained process that can become a bacteria breeding ground if not done properly.

That is why it isn't a great idea to use that water vending device at the grocery store as your source for drinking water as they use the di process in most cases.

I can't speak for any purification machine other than the Glacier machines we have. Ours are kept on a very strict maintenence schedule and the digital display shows the last date and time it was serviced. It will also shut it's self off if it detects contaminants. It's a very sophisticated piece of equiptment and a far cry beyond using a Britta pitcher.

Our machine stays very busy and gets serviced weekly. Our municipal supply is very poor. The city has sent out warnings about contaminants in the supply. The sad thing is our source is the 1st resivour on the Trinity River system. It gets worse downstream. Oil and gas production has cause quite a bit of polution.

[stantond]

You don't want to drink deionized water because it is a really good solvent.   Drinking DI water has the effect of removing minerals that your body might want.  DI water is great for nuclear reactors or if you want a salt solution of a specific molarity, since the water acts as an excellent mineral solvent.  Usually distilled water is fed to a deionizer when making DI water.

Starting with DI water and adding minerals 'to taste' might be a pretty good approach to 'making' great tasting bottled water.  Of course, taste is always subjective.

Regards,

Malta

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by stantond
B  Regardless of the actual water used, it's very convenient.  Much like the portable cell phone, having water with you in a disposable bottle is very convenient.  


Regards,

Malta

Why is it so convienient? You planning on a trek across the sahara any time soon? LOL

Always astounds me (not directed at anyone in particular)
Mankind has been around fro a pretty long time drinking the water at hand.
Even without Bottled water
the overall water quality is probably the best its ever been in history.

We are what we are. A generation of paranoids.
For most of you. Your tap water is fine.

Making things too clean is just as bad for you as living in filth
Like Carlin said.
"We have an imune system. But. For it to work. It needs practice"

[stantond]

Is that a trick question?

If you have water with you, there is no need to go find any.  Personally, and I don't think I'm alone on this, I need water.  Dehydration is not fun.

While it could be some sugary carbonated liquid rather than water carried, I prefer water.  Apparently, others do too.  The type and 'pedigree' of water is always something to question, but having water with you?  Yes.  I also always carry a pocket knife.

I'm a boy scout leader, so being prepared is part of my life.  I carry a one liter playtpus water bottle with me every day to work because the water there tastes bad.  However, most people bring bottled water.  I also like to keep water in my vehicle along with a first aid kit.  It's part of being prepared, self sufficent, as well as a time saver.  Mankind has been doing this for millennia, disposable polyethelyene bottles just make having water with you easier and more convenient.  




Regards,

Malta

[Shamus]

Originally posted by Maverick
That's a "Here's your sign" situation!

Every now and then I fill up an empty or two and put them back in the fridge, she gets pissed when I tell her a day or so after she drinks em

shamus

[Dago]

I drink bottled water for convienience, and it does not taste of chlorine.   I also drink tap water plenty, I suffer no illusion about bottle water being healthier.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by stantond
Is that a trick question?

If you have water with you, there is no need to go find any.  Personally, and I don't think I'm alone on this, I need water.  Dehydration is not fun.

Malta

Why? are you normally that far away from water you cant get any if you need it?

LMAO its not like your gonny dehydrate at a moments notice.
Unless..Your trekking across the sahara

I can understand keeping water as part of a first aid kit. to clean wounds and whatnot.
And even to some extent if the water in your building tastes bad.

But to constantly carry it with you in this day and age is downright silly.

Where in most places your local convienience store is less then 10 min away, Most buisness offices carry a watercooler with spring water. or a filtered water fountain