Don't drink the bottled water!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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E. Coli has been found in one major supplier to many stores recently. It seems that that pure spring water might have come from some polluted source. Our drinking water is treated and tastes good so I never saw the need for bottled water. How about you?
 

We have Filter tap on the sink ,with twin cartridges in the cupboard, We Drink a reasonable amount of water and think it tastes just as good as bottled water :):)
 
No bottled water here..

I believe I heard that 14 brands are affected, shows you that they all come from the same source, but prices may be different!!!
 

Seems both PepsiCo and Coke have agreed that they now are both producing & packaging, as well as selling rela9virlrp
 
The recall I think was for spring water. There is also purified bottled water which is probably safer. It's self explanatory-purified.
 
I think that this Bottled Water is mostly a Fad, and a Scam, foisted upon most people with little more than corporate profits in mind. Unless a person has some sound reason to believe that their drinking water has been polluted, this bottled water fad is mostly a waste of money. Occasionally, some municipalities may have a water main break, but they usually tell people to boil their water, etc....and in such a case, bottled water may be useful for a short period of time. Plus, our environment is being littered with millions of trashed water bottles, and the landfills are dotted with huge numbers of these plastic containers. For those who feel the need to engage in this behavior, I think it would be a good idea to have a "deposit" of 10 to 25 cents on each of these bottles...perhaps therefore inducing the people who drink this stuff to save and recycle their bottles.

We are lucky, in that we have an excellent well...with the water filtered through layers of limestone, etc. It has a lot of minerals in it, so we need to have a water softener to keep from plugging up the aerators in the sinks, etc. However, I take a sample up to the state Health Dept. every 2 or 3 years, and invariably they say that they wish that what comes out of the city drinking fountains was half as good as our water.
 
My other house is in a Zone one radon area with high potential for radon in well water.. so I do bottled water when I am there.. even though my well water is sweet and clean.. and very good
 
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I only drink aquafina since I moved to Florida 15 years ago and since developing a constant problems with kidney stones.

Doc says "try Aquafina,lots of it"...no kidney problems since.

36 bottles 19 onc for $4.90 at Sams.
 
"high potential for radon in well water"

Most interesting! Radon is a gas, produced as a product of radioactive decay of other elements, Radium being one. The Radon emitted by a chunk of radium may be seen in a darkened room, as an eerie-looking smoke-like glow emanating from the Radium. Radon was originally called "Radium Emanation" because of this. The Radon glows in the dark, and the glow disappears ass the gas disperses into the surrounding air.

A guess regarding the source of Radon in your well water would be dissolved radioactive salts. If you cared to, distilling of the well water would leave such dissolved material behind, resulting in Radon-free (and, mostly everything-else free) pure water. imp
 
My drinking water comes from the door of my fridge; it's filtered through a replaceable cartridge inside. It comes out pure, COLD and delicious.

I do keep a case of Sparklettes bottled water out in the garage in case of emergencies.

Or regular tap water is VERY good and I sometimes drink that instead.
 
Living in the Thames Valley area here, the water is clean enough but very 'hard' so we use a jug filter for drinking water which softens it and makes it taste a lot better too.
 
The aquifer supplying our water here in the desert is quite hard, and deposit of scaly white alkali despoils our evaporative cooler pads right-quick. So, a guy at a home show pushing water softening came to our house. Water tested at 38 grains hardness, 1700 ppm (parts per million) dissolved solids. Those numbers meant an insufficient amount of understanding, to me, so I investigated further.

Hardness is universally called-out in grains per gallon of the water. 7000 grains = 1 lb. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 lbs., so a gallon of water also weighs 8.3 X 7000 = 58,100 grains per gallon. So hardness 38 gr./ gal. means our water is about 0.06 % dissolved hardness materials which are Calcium and Magnesium compounds. No others are considered in the hardness idea.

Now, figuring in all the other dissolved stuff, including the 38 grains, 1700 ppm is about 0.2%, so .06 divided by 0.2 = 0.3 or, about 1/3. Thus, 2/3 of the total stuff in our water, are compounds other than "hardness", likely some nitrates, other salts, hopefully not Arsenic, Cadmium, etc.! imp
 
We do drink some plain carbonated seltzer water, but other than that we don't drink any of those bottled waters. We have those little Pur water filters on our faucets, and they have been good enough for many years now.
 

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