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

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by 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.

In my house I have Two gallons of water for emergancy.
I get littel 8 oz bottles for may daughter for school cause she prefers water over jiuce. and if she wants Chocolate milk she can simply buy it there.

But the rule here is. the waterbottles are for school. If anyone wants water here. We have a perfectly good Tap to get water from.
If your unwilling to drink that. then your not thirsty.

We get reports on the water in the mail yearly.
Always well within the regulations and doesnt taste bad.
So I see no point in buying water for drinking when the unfiltered Tap water is fine.

Why do I buy the bottled water for my daughter you wonder.
Cause its cheap and sealed so it wont leak.
For me to refill the bottles then tighten them up enough so I know they wont leak all over her bookbag.
A- she wouldnt be able to open the bottles
B- My time and aggrivation is worth more then the nominal fee for it to be pre packaged for me

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Here's the reality when it comes to bottled water:

Fancy restaurant, sampling waters

[eagl]

dred,

Don't take this wrong, but you sound like a city boy who doesn't get out much.  It's terribly common for me to be in places where I can't easily get at clean water.  You stay a home a lot?  Do much camping, traveling, driving?  Go shopping more than an hour at a time?

Heck, even during day trips around the city I like to bring a little water with me because I don't like using public fountains (risk of illness is a problem in my job) and don't like paying for drinks when I'm out.  I always do this on trips to public parks, even disneyland because all food and drink are very overpriced there.  I'll bring a reusable bottle full of water or some other drinks I bought at a supermarket for 1/10th the park price.

I do sweat more than most people so dehydration is more of a problem for me than for most, but it's still a good idea to be prepared.  Toss some water in the car during trips, etc.

[Dago]

Originally posted by eagl
I do sweat more than most people  

Too much info!  


I normally take a bottle of water along when I am riding in an airliner, and for international trips, I take a large bottle.  Dehydrating during an airline flight is coming due to the dry air.

The Boeing 787 is going to have more moisture in the air, so that will be a nice differance.

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Angus
Always find it hilarious that people buy bottled water in my country, the tapwater is mostly springwater and as such, superb!

Mostly?


The water I drink at home comes from a spring well.  It tastes better alone then any other water I've ever had, including any bottled water.

[DREDIOCK]

Sorry for the wall f text

Originally posted by eagl
dred,

Don't take this wrong, but you sound like a city boy who doesn't get out much.  It's terribly common for me to be in places where I can't easily get at clean water.  You stay a home a lot?  Do much camping, traveling, driving?  Go shopping more than an hour at a time?

Heck, even during day trips around the city I like to bring a little water with me because I don't like using public fountains (risk of illness is a problem in my job) and don't like paying for drinks when I'm out.  I always do this on trips to public parks, even disneyland because all food and drink are very overpriced there.  I'll bring a reusable bottle full of water or some other drinks I bought at a supermarket for 1/10th the park price.

I do sweat more than most people so dehydration is more of a problem for me than for most, but it's still a good idea to be prepared.  Toss some water in the car during trips, etc.

LOL No offence taken.
I get out plenty. Go camping. Long drives. Even the occasionally 1300 mile trek to Fla.
Camping is about the only time I will pack water with me.
Unless my brother in law goes with me then he brings his water purification thingamabobber which claims it can filter out 99% of impurities out of sewer water if need be.
The upper Delaware isnt exactly a sewer and its a pretty cool device actually. Havent gotten sick yet from it.
But for camping I mostly use water for Coffee in the morning and washing whatever pots & pans I may have cooked with.
All of my drinking the rest of the day is either beer/soda or whatever juice drinks I packed for the kids.

On long drives. If I get thirsty I just hop off an exit explore the local community (as opposed to a rest stop)stop and pick something up at one of their local mom & pop convieniance stores (doing my part to help their local economy).
Provides a good reason to stretch the legs And I get to see more of America then just its highways which all pretty much look the same from state to state till ya hit Florida LOL.
I will pack a 5 gallon container of water in one of those collapsible jugs for emergency or radiator problems. just in case. But that water all comes right from my tap

I find as long as I dont buy anything from a rest stop. I usually dont spend much, if anything more then I would had I just packed. And getting off the interstate from time to time helps with fatigue and boredom.

Disney makes perfect sense to bring your own...ANYTHING
Good god the food there is expensive. Make the mistake of Eating in the MK at the joint set up like an old drive in Theater. and paid $10 for a burger and fries.
Cant fault ya there.

for around town. or basically for the work day I bring my own drinks particularly when Im working outside in the summer I just pick up a big jug of Gator Aid. (Cause your body looses more then just water and I like the taste)But barring that. much to the horror (and often because it freaks alot of people out these days) I wont hesitate to turn on the spigot of whatever house Im working on and drink right from the hose if need be.

I did have one instance on a BRUTALLY hot day I was working on the outside of a house and went through my 2 gallon jug of gator aid in like 5 hours.
I only had about an hours worth of work left and wanted to finish.
Lemme tell ya. when its REALLY hot and your working in it. You can get thirsty in a hurry. I was spending 10 min on the ground drinking for every 10 min I was up on ly ladder.
In any event I ran out. The area I was working in wasnt exactly high class so I didnt want to just leave all my stuff out to be stolen. and I didnt want to pack everytying up to run to the store 1/2 mile away.
I went for the spigot on the house but it wasnt turned on one the inside. and nobody was home.
My head was pounding at this point and I knew Dehydration was effecting me.
On super hot days it can come up on ya in a hurry. Particularly if on that super hot day your working in the sun. On top of a black roof

Then I remembered that I had neglected to  open the bag and dump the ice in my cooler but rather just placed the bag in the cooler with the gator aid. (A practice I continue to do to this day) and there it was. some had leaked out but I had about 1/3 of a bag of melted ice water.
Man Water never tasted so good

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Dago
Too much info!  


I normally take a bottle of water along when I am riding in an airliner, and for international trips, I take a large bottle.  Dehydrating during an airline flight is coming due to the dry air.

The Boeing 787 is going to have more moisture in the air, so that will be a nice differance.

See now there is another good reason to brin gwater with you.

Thing is for most people. most of the time. There is no need to constantly pack water with you.
Particularly most of the people I see that carry water like EVERYWHERE they go.

ITs really at the point where people dont need to.
They do so because its the "In Fad" like Tie dye teeshirts and those wheelie shoes the kids like to wear these days.

For me. I just see it as one more thing I would have to lug around

though with one of those cute little sling thingies they have now so you can carry it around like a woman carries a purse It might make for a pretty nifty weapon if need be.
Specially if I froze the water first

[Dago]

I find it very interesting that when we pay over $2 a gallon for gas, everyone is up in arms complaining, and if you think about it, is it really that expensive?  They pump oil from the ground in the middle east, pump it to a port city, where it is loaded on a tanker ship, then transported half way around the world where it gets pumped into land tanks, then it is piped or trucked half away across the country to refinery, where they have to break it down and extract the gasoline, store it, then truck it to the gas station where we buy it.  All that work, movement, storage, all those costs and salaries to pay, including all the taxes, and we only pay $2 a gallon and complain.

Bottled water on the other hand, is just local river water or tap water that is filtered, bottled and put on your markets shelf or in a vending machine, for which we pay anywhere from $4 to $8 a gallon and we don't mind at all.

What the heck is up with that?  Try and buy a pint of that local filtered water, same as you get from your tap almost free, try and buy it for less than a dollar and you are lucky.  Yet, nobody complains.  

Strange.

[WhiteHawk]

I am in close contact witht the production and manufacture of a popular brand of bottled water.  regular tap water is diverted to a series of filters that remove 99.9% of all impurities from this tap water.  THhis filtered water is now ok to use for soda and juices and teas but it is not  ready to become "purified" water.  The filtered water is then refiltered through micro-mseh filters and hundreds of feet of speical sand filters  then it is "electrocuted" or saturated with ozone to further purify this water and it is then sent through a "polisher" with super fine micro filtration technology.  From this point it travels through a UV light tunnel to remove a certain amount of the ozone (ozone is simply H203 instead of H20).  The rest of the ozone naturally turns back into h2o after about 12 hours.  The water is then piped through pre-sterilized tanks and fillers and bottled and capped.  Each hour a quality control tech checks a sample for impurities.  If any are found, the entire run is placed on 'hold' and probably destroyed and the system is resanitized and the whole process starts over again.  I cant speak for all bottled waters but if it says "purified" on it, it legally must use this or a similar process to qualify as 'purified' water.

[stantond]

I must admit, I am fascinated by portable water purifiers.  Here is one of the UV water purifiers:

http://www.nitro-pak.com/product_info.php?products_id=1473

Pure science in action!  It does nothing but kill every living organism in the water with UV radiation (won't change the taste).  A prefilter is needed for murky water.   The unit requires 4 AA batteries.


This is another 'kill everything' water purifier:

http://www.prepare-now.com/840.html

I don't like as much because of cost, it requires a salt along with batteries,  takes longer to work, and needs a prefilter for murky water.   However, for a large group it would work better than the UV model.  


Regards,


Malta

[wetrat]

Tap water in most places tastes like crap. I just buy the big cases of bottles at walmart for like $4.

[WhiteHawk]

Originally posted by stantond
I must admit, I am fascinated by portable water purifiers.  Here is one of the UV water purifiers:

http://www.nitro-pak.com/product_info.php?products_id=1473

Pure science in action!  It does nothing but kill every living organism in the water with UV radiation (won't change the taste).  A prefilter is needed for murky water.   The unit requires 4 AA batteries.


This is another 'kill everything' water purifier:

http://www.prepare-now.com/840.html

I don't like as much because of cost, it requires a salt along with batteries,  takes longer to work, and needs a prefilter for murky water.   However, for a large group it would work better than the UV model.  


Regards,


Malta

I use a RO filtration system.  Theyare now quite affordable at around $150 (home depot) and very effective in removing virtually all impurities including chlorine and lead.   It does not kill bacteria or virus but it is designed to be used with  tap water and not pond water.  I use to spend about 10 bucks a week on water, i figure this system has paid for itself already.