water drinkers discuss the bottled water you like

[kastein]

Here is something for the tap water lovers. I like my tap water in my BPA rich Nalgene. Here is a link to what is on the inside of any cast iron water main (pre 60's). Some of the water lines in the distribution system I work on are MUCH worst then this. Tuberculars FTW

http://www.judo-online.at/judo/CA/Themen/Plumbing_infrastructure/The_problem.php

Don't worry this is post filtration and Chlorinated.

I've seen worse, when the water mains on my street were replaced I took a sample of the sludge from the inside of the old pipe - 18" pipe had approximately 1.5" to 2" layer of a rather cool looking black, brown, red, bright orange, and grey banded sludge. It was all neat bumpy nodules and stuff on the inner surface. Slightly oily to the touch, smelled like diesel fuel, and stained my fingers like nothing else... Looked like an earth tone geode.

:dunno: I figure the fact that it came out of the water must mean the water got cleaner in the process... bottoms up!

 

[Matthew Currie]

I drink only genuine Eau de Robinet. Accept no substitutes.

 

[97XJ2]

Of course my Nalgene's have the BPA's I'm not that paranoid. Last summer I supervised a crew working with old Asbestos water main. In these parts your water main is cast (and it's looked like that in that article or worse), asbestos, or of course PVC. I grew up on hard water so its not an issue, though I can't stand the taste of soft water, and I get frustrated trying to shower with it as the soap goes nowhere.

Most of the water I drink these days comes from the tap, or brown bottles since beer is mostly water anyway.

 

[JNickel101]

Y'all know that fancy Evian water is Paris tap water, right?

And I think Dasani (or maybe Aquafina) was forced to change their label because it is actually just "filtered" San Antonio tap water.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

a lot of them are plain old tap water, unfiltered.

 

[xDUMPTRUCKx]

a lot of them are plain old tap water, unfiltered.

i dont believe this.


proof.


lets see it.


theres a pretty big taste difference.

 

[Matthew Currie]

i dont believe this.


proof.


lets see it.


theres a pretty big taste difference.

Both Dasani and Aquafina are filtered municipal water the same as the Coke and Pepsi plants use for soft drinks. So are at least some of the gallon-jug waters. From what I've read about 60 percent of the bottled water sold in the US is filtered water from public sources. Basically you could get the same water from any tap in a city with a good water supply, if you put it through a Brita pitcher or the like, and probably don't need the pitcher at all in NYC and a few other cities famous for their water, but of course you need to know whether the city you're in has a good water supply.

I think most "spring water" comes from something at least resembling springs, though of course there are always a few bad apples and exceptions. You can look up the various nasty test results and exposés on the web, but some I saw were 10 years old, so not much use today.

There are some federal standards that regulate what you can claim on the label, and qualify what is meant by spring and well water, etc. I doubt many companies would put out municipal water without at least rudimentary filtering. They wouldn't sell much if you could see sediment in the jug or if it stank of chlorine.

If you want to find out what's in what water, here's one place, although it appears that the sources listed are all provided by the manufacturers, so some are not present, and some are a bit coy about just how much processing they do. But the ones that bottle straight from the spring will be sure to tell you that with pride:

http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/frontbottlers.do

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

read the bottle. I think dasani has it on the label, or used to. Aquafina was supposed to be required to write that its source was a city water supply, alhough I think they got out of it. Some of the companies get by with saying spring water because the bottling plant is in a town that uses a spring or aquifier for its source, even though they take it out of the tap.

Of course there could be a big taste difference. I did not say that it was tap water bottled from your tap. If you are closer to the ocean and have a supply near there it will probably taste much different than in another location. Here I think the tap water tastes a little worse than it did in Raleigh.

 

[kastein]

I never expected this thread to be taken seriously :dunno:

I find it amusing that this thread has stayed almost 100% on topic.

 

[MahnkenVille]

We have good tap water in CNY. We just chill it (no fancy Brita pitcher) and I've probably had about 8 nalgenes, with and without BPA.

I find it funny that people will buy bottled water when right next to a water fountain.

 

[kastein]

^ X2. Drinking Worcester tap water out of a mason jar right now...

What I like about winter is that I don't even need to chill the water, I just fill up my glass/jar/whatever after doing the dishes and it's ice cold water from the mains.

 

[xDUMPTRUCKx]

I never expected this thread to be taken seriously :dunno:

I find it amusing that this thread has stayed almost 100% on topic.

looks like your douchebaggery backfired, thats what you get for having 4k posts in like 4 months.

 

[MaxxXJ]

its all about the smart water... i havent found a smoother tasting water... its like the grey goose of water =) and i drink tap water filtered by my pur water filter...

 

[themangeraaad]

I drink tap water on a regular basis, though I do buy a bottle of the flavored aquafina at lunch most days.

I figure it's either a bottle of flavor water or a soda, so I might as well be healthier and get the flavor water. Then I refill that bottle for the rest of the day anytime I want a drink and for my drive home.

 

[kastein]

looks like your douchebaggery backfired, thats what you get for having 4k posts in like 4 months.

:spin1:

I get bored at work (while my test code is happily running on monitor #2) and post in mod/oem tech... helping people. As opposed to you, who just goes around "s**tting on threads" that you don't like

have fun feeling self righteous! :wave:

 

[AJTorris]

My wife likes Voss. The best water i had was straight from a stream up in the high country!!!

 

[joe_peters]

:spin1:

I get bored at work (while my test code is happily running on monitor #2) and post in mod/oem tech... helping people. As opposed to you, who just goes around "s**tting on threads" that you don't like

have fun feeling self righteous! :wave:

Are you dissing the social forum trolls? :cheers:

 

[Darky]

:spin1:

I get bored at work (while my test code is happily running on monitor #2) and post in mod/oem tech... helping people. As opposed to you, who just goes around "s**tting on threads" that you don't like

have fun feeling self righteous! :wave:

Watch out, he'll "unleash the dogs" on you...

 

[Darky]

its all about the smart water... i havent found a smoother tasting water... its like the grey goose of water =) and i drink tap water filtered by my pur water filter...

I hate the taste of smart water. Fiji, Arrowhead, Crystal Geyser, they all taste good.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

i drink from a bucket that collects rain water outside my cabin in the woods, like a man.

you sissies and your bottles...