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Zeno
Citizen
Username: Eratosthenes
Post Number: 80
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 5:30 am: |     |
I noticed a vending machine for this stuff on the way into Home Cheapo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1174127,00.html |
naborly
Citizen
Username: Naborly
Post Number: 315
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:35 pm: | |
Caveat Emptor! |
court07040
Citizen
Username: Court07040
Post Number: 69
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:51 pm: | |
To be fair, soda is pretty much the same - except the water is carbonated and they add syrup. The bottling and transportation costs far exceed the production cost. Save your money and just drink straight from the tap - unless you live in Phoenix, yuck! |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 146
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 4:38 pm: | |
Or drink real spring water, like Poland Spring.
But beware, not every water with Spring in the name is real spring water.
Dasani is made by Coke, what did you expect? |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3530
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 10:39 pm: | |
Dasini is produce by Coke and Pepsi has a brand that the name skips me at this moment.
Both use their soda factories to package the product. Where ever they are, and Pepsi has one near Trenton, they use city water to make the soda pop. To keep it standard, they filter and process the city water to a know standard, then they make the soda.
Recently they have taken that super processed city water, added back some trace elements for taste and bottle it.
That is the bottled water product you are talking about.
In fairness, it is likely better for you than most of the bottled waters, in that it has been processed to a known measurable standard.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
snshirsch
Citizen
Username: Snshirsch
Post Number: 128
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 9:05 am: | |
Pepsi is Aqua-Fina. And it as well is produced from the tap water of the local bottlers. |
kevin
Citizen
Username: Kevin
Post Number: 226
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 9:11 am: | |
Earlster,
Poland spring is a Nestle product -- and doesn't come from the original Maine spring. It is heavily treated groundwater.
http://www.forrelease.com/D20030618/sfw096.P2.06182003161634.13681.html
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clkelley
Citizen
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 184
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 1:38 pm: | |
Eeeew.
Now what do we do - lead in the tap water, yuck in the bottled water.
Guess we all have to start living on beer.
don't panic |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 468
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 1:50 pm: | |
Kevin - I'm so unhappy now. All these years I thought that I was drinking pure spring water! ok - what about Evian? |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2513
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 2:23 pm: | |
Bottled water isn't heavily regulated, if at all. Municipal water is, though you could argue not heavily enough. We got a filter put into our kitchen sink tap from Multipure. It cost $300 with labor. A blind taste test shows it tastes a lot better than tap water. The installer claimed it filters out something like 2,100 chemicals. We have to replace the filter annually for about $50. This is cheaper than bottled water or a filter pitcher, and it works better than the filter pitcher, and it's more convenient.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 469
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 2:26 pm: | |
Tom - we have a similar filter in our kitchen and we use it for cooking and drinking. However, when we go away, I usually get some Poland Spring for the trip. I guess now I'll have to rethink that. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2514
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 2:30 pm: | |
I drink bottled water at times. I wouldn't worry too much. Gauge your worry in proportion to how much of it you drink. That is, you won't drink as much bottled water on trips as you do from your home tap, since you're home more. Actually, I usually drink whatever's handiest.
We buy bottled water to take with us, mostly for the cheap nearly disposable bottles. We refill them with our filtered water. I wish I could buy just the bottles, though.
Remember 20 years ago, we joked that we'd be paying for water in bottles? And then the even funnier joke was that it would be tap water? Careful what you joke about!
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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johnny
Citizen
Username: Johnny
Post Number: 846
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 3:26 pm: | |
Tom-
Bottled water is regulated by the FDA.
Municipal water is regulated by the EPA, quite heavily in fact. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2515
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 3:27 pm: | |
Thanks for the info, johnny. Funny that we use these two waters in much the same ways, but different agencies regulate them.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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clkelley
Citizen
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 185
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 3:48 pm: | |
You shouldn't necessarily trust the regulators though. Have you been following the lead crisis in the Washington DC area? This isn't about lead piping in homes, but lead in the municipal water supply.
The lead is in such high concentrations that it overwhelms home filtration systems. Apparently the EPA guidelines were weak and unenforceable. "Heavily regulated" didn't help the people in DC. Just because we have regulatory agencies, or even regulations, doesn't mean the public is protected.
I might add that I have historically taken Reingold's position - tap water is clean and regulated, go ahead and drink it. I'm not so sure any more. These days I don't trust the regulatory agencies at all. I don't really trust the filtration systems, although I use one.
And I have a serious problem with shipping water in bottles over the Atlantic ocean (although, truth be told I sometimes indulge in Pellegrino in the hot summer months - somehow it is more refreshing than seltzer water, which is somehow more refreshing than non-bubbly water).
don't panic |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 148
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 4:30 pm: | |
Kevin, thanks for the link. I always thought Poland Spring was one of the few genuine spring waters.
clkelly -
There has to be however some good spring water in the US. Shipping it from Europe is just to wastefull for me.
There are many 'Mineral Waters' in europe, Pellegrino is just one of them, to bad they aren't more common around here, too.
Whole Foods sells Gerolsteiner from Germany, again it seems ridiculous to me to ship 'water' for some 6k miles. |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 150
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 5:48 pm: | |
Hmm, looks like there is another side to the story.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/081703/bus_18water.shtml
As usual it will be hard to find out the whole truth, but it looks like I might stick with Poland Spring. |
Ignatius J
Citizen
Username: Ignatius_j
Post Number: 173
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 5:57 pm: | |
My favorite is the label on some no-name brands that say "Bottled at the Source" which could of course be anywhere...like the Gowanus Canal |
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