Tap, (Faucet), Water or Bottled Water?

Our water comes from a well. We have had the city come in and test it. They say it is safe to drink (but they noted there were some amounts of impurities and minerals that could POSSIBLY be mildly harmful in very long term use). My husband and I have gotten a water purification system added to our water pump for all water used inside the house. At the sink we also installed a good reverse osmosis water filter that we use for drinking water. It removes everything else, even bacteria & virus.
 

Tap water for me in the UK...........but filter it in Spain as it can be a bit heavy on the old tum.
 

Can drinking from water bottles left in hot car be harmful?...or a myth?

[h=4]Myth: Drinking from a plastic water bottle left in a hot car can cause cancer.[/h][h=5]Fact: This rumor falsely claims that dioxins—a group of toxic chemicals associated with an array of health problems, including breast cancer—leach from the heated plastic into the water.[/h]Plastics do not contain dioxins, and the sun's rays are not strong enough to create them, says Michael Trush, PhD, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Urban Environmental Health. Most single-use beverage bottles sold in the United States are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a substance tested extensively for safety. There is some evidence that heat can cause bisphenol A (BPA), a compound that's been shown to have estrogenic effects in animal studies, to leach from plastic bottles into the water. (The "estrogenic effects" are thought to impact cancer risk.) However, most single-use water bottles sold in the United States are made from BPA-free plastic. And there's no proven link to breast cancer in women anyway. To be safe, drink from a reusable plastic bottle labeled "BPA free," or choose water bottles with a "1," "2," "4," or "5" in the recycling symbol on the bottom.


Published November 2011, Prevention
 
We have returned to drinking tap water at home.

We had a jug style filter but it required daily cleaning and we also had to check the filter.

Our club charges us £3.15 for a bottle of sparkling water.

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Meanderer said:
Can drinking from water bottles left in hot car be harmful?...or a myth?

Myth: Drinking from a plastic water bottle left in a hot car can cause cancer.

Fact: This rumor falsely claims that dioxins—a group of toxic chemicals associated with an array of health problems, including breast cancer—leach from the heated plastic into the water.

Plastics do not contain dioxins, and the sun's rays are not strong enough to create them, says Michael Trush, PhD, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Urban Environmental Health. Most single-use beverage bottles sold in the United States are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a substance tested extensively for safety. There is some evidence that heat can cause bisphenol A (BPA), a compound that's been shown to have estrogenic effects in animal studies, to leach from plastic bottles into the water. (The "estrogenic effects" are thought to impact cancer risk.) However, most single-use water bottles sold in the United States are made from BPA-free plastic. And there's no proven link to breast cancer in women anyway. To be safe, drink from a reusable plastic bottle labeled "BPA free," or choose water bottles with a "1," "2," "4," or "5" in the recycling symbol on the bottom.


Published November 2011, Prevention
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I have heard this too, glad to see it is just another myth or scare tactic.
 
We have well water that is heavy with mineral and iron. When we first had our home built and used the well water unfiltered, our dishwasher turned orange inside and my washer and all other water use appliances turned orange. That was the least of the problem. The iron build up ruined a dishwasher, washing machine and water heater after a time. I had to do our white and light colored clothing at the nearest laundromat near 20 miles away. We were so young and weren't aware of good filter systems for pumps, although we had called one up from town and it turned out to be a failure. We then discovered a new local company and he did a much better job fixing up a filter system and as the years went by he was able to upgrade with newer systems and now our water is filtered but has to use a salt type filter system. I don't understand but have been able to wash white clothes and even use whitening agents if need be! Such an improvement. Most people in our neighborhood have the same problem. Only a few lucky ones have naturally clear, clean water systems.
 
Fluoride - Killing Us Softly

See just how toxic Fluoride is, and why it really was added to our water supply. Of course public deception was key in making us love the poison for "tooth health".
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These words of Dr. John Yiamouyiannis may come as a shock to you because, if you’re like most Americans, you have positive associations with fluoride.
You may envision tooth protection, strong bones, and a government that cares about your dental needs.

What you’ve probably never been told is that the fluoride added to drinking water and toothpaste is a crude industrial waste product of the aluminum and fertilizer industries, and a substance toxic enough to be used as rat poison.

How is it that Americans have learned to love an environmental hazard?

This phenomenon can be attributed to a carefully planned marketing program begun even before Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to officially fluoridate its drinking water in 1945.

As a result of this ongoing campaign, nearly two-thirds of the nation has enthusiastically followed Grand Rapids’ example. But this push for fluoridation has less to do with a concern for America’s health than with industry’s penchant to expand at the expense of our nation’s well-being.

The first thing you have to understand about fluoride is that it’s the problem child of industry. Its toxicity was recognized at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when, in the 1850s iron and copper factories discharged it into the air and poisoned plants, animals, and people.

The problem was exacerbated in the 1920s when rapid industrial growth meant massive pollution. Medical writer Joel Griffiths explains that “it was abundantly clear to both industry and government that spectacular U.S. industrial expansion – and the economic and military power and vast profits it promised – would necessitate releasing millions of tons of waste fluoride into the environment.”

Their biggest fear was that “if serious injury to people were established, lawsuits alone could prove devastating to companies, while public outcry could force industry-wide government regulations, billions in pollution-control costs, and even mandatory changes in high-fluoride raw materials and profitable technologies.”

At first, industry could dispose of fluoride legally only in small amounts by selling it to insecticide and rat poison manufacturers.

Then a commercial outlet was devised in the 1930s when a connection was made between water supplies bearing traces of fluoride and lower rates of tooth decay.

Griffiths writes that this was not a scientific breakthrough, but rather part of a “public disinformation campaign” by the aluminum industry “to convince the public that fluoride was safe and good.” Industry’s need prompted Alcoa-funded scientist Gerald J. Cox to announce that “The present trend toward complete removal of fluoride from water may need some reversal.”

Griffiths writes:
“The big news in Cox’s announcement was that this ‘apparently worthless by-product’ had not only been proved safe (in low doses), but actually beneficial; it might reduce cavities in children.

A proposal was in the air to add fluoride to the entire nation’s drinking water. While the dose to each individual would be low, ‘fluoridation’ on a national scale would require the annual addition of hundreds of thousands of tons of fluoride to the country’s drinking water.

“Government and industry – especially Alcoa – strongly supported intentional water fluoridation… [it] made possible a master public relations stroke – one that could keep scientists and the public off fluoride’s case for years to come.

If the leaders of dentistry, medicine, and public health could be persuaded to endorse fluoride in the public’s drinking water, proclaiming to the nation that there was a ‘wide margin of safety,’ how were they going to turn around later and say industry’s fluoride pollution was dangerous?

“As for the public, if fluoride could be introduced as a health enhancing substance that should be added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing it would look like quacks and lunatics….

Full article here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/fluorid...softly/5360397


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Never drink water on an airplane from the tap, including if your coffee or tea was made from tap water and not bottled water.
 
We use tap water, but put it through the filter jug first as we live in a hard water area [Thames Valley.]Then it becomes pleasant to drink.
 

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