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Does anybody else remember when we just used to drink water from the taps?

Don`t you think bottled water may just be the biggest con going????!!!

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Does anybody else remember when we just used to drink water from the taps?



Don`t you think bottled water may just be the biggest con going????!!!
You bet it's a con, and the worst part, is all the folks that buy into it like sheep. Granted, some city water tastes terrible, but it won't kill or hurt you.

What's next, BOTTLED AIR?

I drink tap at home but at my dad's where I've been going the last few



weeks I drink bottled 'cause his tastes terrible to me, I think it must be

old pipes or something.



The ranch where I grew up had an artesian well, and dad fixed us kids

a fountain right at the "pump house" and in the summer, we let it run

a little to get cold, and MAN. That was the best water. Even as kids

we'd rather drink it than about anything else. (We weren't allowed soda,

"that stuff will stunt your growth!!):D

We didn't waste water either really even though we had ample supply.

There was always a container of some sort to put it in and an animal

to drink it! My dad would bring home "tube testers" from the gas station

and we'd go down to the "crik" and catch us a mess of crawdads to put

in the tube testers. We'd keep them under our drinking fountain and

let the water run in there!!



;)

Absolutely!!! Tap water is probably safer than bottled water. Bottled water tastes better in some cases but people get used to the taste of the water where they live if they don't drink bottled water.

I don't drink water, but I do buy bottled water for my coffee. Our tap water makes coffee look like it has an oil slick on top of it. Not something I want to drink.

bottled air. They already tried that in LA. a bunch of pseudo-stars in hollywood got together and opened a bar where they served AIR. they got shut down because they weren't a medical facility allowed to use the canisters of O2.

I try to drink 2 Litres of water a day, and do buy bottled water.

Bit silly really when i think of how much i pay for my water rates!

Remember Evian is Naive spelt backwards

Bothwell wrote: Remember Evian is Naive spelt backwards


That is funny B.

Heck as kids I remember we used to drink out of the mountain fed streams when camping and never suffered a bit from "beaver fever" or anything else. I think it just made our stomaches and taste buds more "tolerant" way back when.

always buy bottled water, so you can grab one for the road. we have excellent well water here and have it tested annually, as our relatives are well drillers and test for us. water is important, so we drink water constantly. hydration is very important for many health reasons. not all bottled waters are good, i only buy poland springs.

Not to be negitive but...

I have kidney disease, which I may have mentioned in another post.

This means my body doesn't filter toxins like it should. The Cleveland Clinic (#6 in the country for this stuff!) told me I should either be using a Brita pitcher or buying bottled water, because there actually is stuff in tap water that can make you sick. It may not be in the water itself, but there can be things in your plumbing that are considered mild toxins to your body.

Now, I do live up on Lake Erie, and I know that it certainly isn't the most sanitary source of water (snort!), so it could totally be a regional thing, but...

I don't know. When the experts at the Clinic tell you to do something, you listen!

For the record, they say Dannon bottled water is the purest.

May not mean anything to those of you with working kidneys, but...just an opinion!

I used to happily drink burn water while hill walking until one occession hillwalking with a biologist I kearned all aboit the life cycle of the sheep liver fluke fly. Now I'm more careful. We need to renationalise scottish water before they start pumping it down south.

minks wrote: That is funny B.

Heck as kids I remember we used to drink out of the mountain fed streams when camping and never suffered a bit from "beaver fever" or anything else. I think it just made our stomaches and taste buds more "tolerant" way back when.
*snort* cough* choke*:wah: :wah:

what may i ask is "Beaver Fever", because I'm quite sure what you are talking about and what I am thinking are not the same.

Wolverine wrote: *snort* cough* choke*:wah: :wah:

what may i ask is "Beaver Fever", because I'm quite sure what you are talking about and what I am thinking are not the same.






Glad you asked, Wolverine, I wouldn't have "touched" that one...





Might it have been an affliction you suffered from in your youth?

valerie wrote:





Glad you asked, Wolverine, I wouldn't have "touched" that one...





Might it have been an affliction you suffered from in your youth?


Simply put it is what happens when you drink the not so pure mountain water, upset stomach. And all that happens with it. No More Details there.

On another note here on bottled water.....

Check your bottled water lables for those of you who do drink it faithfully.

Spring water: if there is any flooding, nuclear fall out, over population of wild life etc near the spring water source your water is no better than tap water.

If impurities are an issue drink distilled water. The process guarantees purer water no matter what is going on with your local spring water, or anyones spring water.

This friendly tip brought to you by my water guy who comes by ever other week to bring the companies bottled water.

BTW the oil slick you see when you make coffee, that is from coffee mostly. Coffee generally is oily and cheaper coffee means more oilyness.

valerie wrote: [...] My dad would bring home "tube testers" from the gas station

and we'd go down to the "crik" and catch us a mess of crawdads to put

in the tube testers. We'd keep them under our drinking fountain and

let the water run in there!!



;)
Dat der's tawk frum back home. I'm more relaxed just reading that post aloud. :guitarist



Every bottled water I've tasted tastes funny. My wife insists on a Brita filter & that tastes really good, but I'm just as comfortable drinking from a garden hose once it's "run cool."

If you get your drinking water from utility of any size it is tested frequently and thoroughly. Even if it doesn’t taste good I would trust it over bottled water. For one thing it hasn’t been sitting in a plastic container absorbing all the bad stuff plastic leaches into the water. Your bottled water distributor will tell you all kinds of bad things about everybody’s water but the water they distribute.

You can ask your water utility (private or public) for the test results on the water you are drinking and they have to provide it for you. Federal law requires them to make their reports public.

Hmmm..."Beaver Fever" I think I had that in the 9th grade when I liked Jennifer Jones, the cheerleader.

but seriously, I live high in the Rockies and all those bottled water companies can kiss my booty! Not on this side, not on that side, but right in the middle!

Take this stupid domineering, fear-spreading, corporate water con-men!

(Jives takes a huge chug staight from the garden hose)

Yikes!!! That hose was left out in the sun! Oh my poor lips, I think I burned my throat off!

(Jives runs off holding his throat):o

Drinking from a garden hose that has been left out in the sun is truly dangerous. They don’t make garden hoses out of chemicals that we should consume and when they get hot, the water absorbs the chemicals. When I drink from a garden hose I make sure it gets a good flush first.

I would just as soon drink right out of a mountain stream than to drink bottled water. Some day we are going to be sorry our immune systems won’t handle a little cryptosporidium once in a while.

(jives tries to answer through burned lips)

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Jives wrote: (jives tries to answer through burned lips)

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See, I told you so.:wah:

Clint wrote: See, I told you so.:wah:


Ah Clint my water company told me that of their own product, they handle both spring and distilled, and distilled is cheaper so by me switching they lost money but I admired and appreciated their honesty.

Jives one day your gonna kill yourself sheeesh!!

minks wrote: Jives one day your gonna kill yourself sheeesh!!
er ... again. :yh_shame

ark ark ark! I've got more lives than a cat!

OK, the nutritionist has to chime in:

1. Distilled water is the purest water you can drink, BUT it leaches minerals from your body indiscriminately. So, if you drink distilled water, be sure to take trace minerals and be sure your mineral intake is high.

2. Flouride and chlorine aren't good for anyone, so if you're drinking city water I'd say go for the bottled stuff. The amount of BPA (Bisphenol-A is the chemical that leaches from polycarbonate plastic into whatever food or water it is exposed to) that is leached into water is the subject of much debate. Flouride, however, is clearly not good. There are two kinds of flouride salts, one has been marginally proven to improve bone density and tooth enamel. The other has not. Guess which one is in our water? Not only that, it has been linked to increased rates of osteoporosis. Not only that, even if the flouride salt were of the correct type (the kind in toothpaste), the amount of time that the water comes into contact with the teeth is not enough for the flouride to act on the enamel. Not only that, the source of this salt is industrial smokestack waste. We are the only country in the world that has flouridated water.

3. I think the best bottled water is Trinity, the blue stuff, not the gold stuff (this is good for specific medicinal treatment, but not general drinking). I would recommend distilled water for kidney problems with trace minerals added. I don't know why the doctor would recommend Dannon for kidney problems, though, it's just purified tap water.

What's next, BOTTLED AIR?


Hmmm... I have an idea...

I drink tap water, sometimes it tastes of chlorine, but I put cordial in to flavor it.:rolleyes: I should dring it as I am going out with the shire water engineer, he might be insulted if I didn't drink his town water.

actionfigurestepho wrote: Not to be negitive but...

I have kidney disease, which I may have mentioned in another post.

This means my body doesn't filter toxins like it should. The Cleveland Clinic (#6 in the country for this stuff!) told me I should either be using a Brita pitcher or buying bottled water, because there actually is stuff in tap water that can make you sick. It may not be in the water itself, but there can be things in your plumbing that are considered mild toxins to your body.

Now, I do live up on Lake Erie, and I know that it certainly isn't the most sanitary source of water (snort!), so it could totally be a regional thing, but...

I don't know. When the experts at the Clinic tell you to do something, you listen!

For the record, they say Dannon bottled water is the purest.

May not mean anything to those of you with working kidneys, but...just an opinion!


Yes I think it was Cleveland that had the huge outbreak of fecal contamination in their public drinking water supply? It started with infants dying and then the ER's were swamped with very sick people. Many died. After the mystery was solved, it was realized that a sewage treatment plant just upstream from the water plant had a break in one of their main release pipes therefore contaminating the city of Cleveland's water supply. Horrible!

Also, have any of you been to St. Louis? Did you think the water tasted bad? Now I live here, but I have heard we have some of the best water in country???? Something on this was even on the news once, but can't remember anything about it. When I travel outside of St. Louis, the drinking water in other cities repulses me................but doesn't everybody feel that way? I mean are we all just used to our own city's water flavor?