Why do "we" drink tap water? (issues, adult, parent)
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Why would a city treat its water if it wasn't intended for consumption? And most bottled water in North America is from city treated tap water, from the 2 companies that have a monopoly on bottled water: Coke and Pepsi (I.e. The conglomerates that own Coke & Pepsi).
I wonder if the original post was done by someone with an Axe to grind?
If you google "Dangers of Bottled water" you will find some interesting stuff.
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7 Reasons To Never Drink Bottled Water Again
2. Most bottled water is glorified tap water at 10,000 times the cost.
The label on your bottled water may depict a peaceful mountain stream, but that doesn't mean the water inside is pure and pristine.
Only some bottled water comes from springs or groundwater sources. It turns out that approximately 25% of bottled water is sourced from ... the tap. Sure, some companies filter or radiate the tap water with ultraviolet light before selling it to you at several thousand times the cost of municipal tap water. (Examples include Aquafina, Dasani, and many other brands.)
Moreover, studies show that bottled water samples can contain phthalates, mold, microbes, benzene, trihalomethanes, even arsenic. And only recently did the FDA start regulating bottled water for E. Coli, thanks to advocacy by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Where I live, Davenport Ia, the city gets it's water from the Mississippi River. Days ago, about 10 miles upstream, Leclaire, IA, home to those American Picker garbage picker guys, accidentally released 17,000 gallons of untreated raw sewage into the Mississippi river. I'll drink my bottled water, and fill up every single landfill on earth before I subject my kids to raw sewage water. And on top of that, the local news said if you smell chlorine in your tap water it's ok, it's just because blah blah blah blah. No, I won't drink water with the tap, EVER. Nor will I drink or give my kids stuff laced with fluoride, from the tap, look at the Harvard study and others. Tap water s no good, and I select my bottled water carefully. I haven't drank out of tap since 2005. And I also made my children's bottles with fluoride free bottled water. Why do you care so much who drinks bottled water? If you want to drink out of a nasty azz faucet then do it, good for you. I'll drink out of my bottles, they all up in the 5 gyres anyway.
Public tap water coming out of your faucet is tested, and required to meet state and federal safety regulations and standards. Bottled water is not, water bottlers can put anything they want in those bottles and it is not subject to any health or safety regulations or inspections, or even labeling standards.
When you turn on your faucet, you know what you are getting, When you open a bottle, you do not.
By the way, the purest water you can get is rain water, that has never touched the ground nor been collected in a container. It tastes awful, because that nice refreshing flavor that we associate with water comes from its impurities.
By the way, I've drunk tapwater in about 120 countries, and only been sick a couple of times, possibly but not necessarily from the water. The only places I do not drink tapwater are in small low-lying third-world towns subject to frequent flooding or high water, where public water can be subjected to waste backup. It is safe to drink water straight out of the Amazon River
What I've learned from this thread is that too many people don't know the square root of **** concerning the mechanics of today's water treatment protocols, regulations and requirements or what's considered safe drinking water. Or why we have an infinitesimal number of water borne diseases in this country.
Public tap water coming out of your faucet is tested, and required to meet state and federal safety regulations and standards. Bottled water is not, water bottlers can put anything they want in those bottles and it is not subject to any health or safety regulations or inspections, or even labeling standards.
When you turn on your faucet, you know what you are getting, When you open a bottle, you do not.
By the way, the purest water you can get is rain water, that has never touched the ground nor been collected in a container. It tastes awful, because that nice refreshing flavor that we associate with water comes from its impurities.
I have to disagree.
We get our cleanest water tests when the water comes from water bearing sand.
Public tap water coming out of your faucet is tested, and required to meet state and federal safety regulations and standards. Bottled water is not, water bottlers can put anything they want in those bottles and it is not subject to any health or safety regulations or inspections, or even labeling standards.
When you turn on your faucet, you know what you are getting, When you open a bottle, you do not.
By the way, the purest water you can get is rain water, that has never touched the ground nor been collected in a container. It tastes awful, because that nice refreshing flavor that we associate with water comes from its impurities.
In all due respect, considering the pollutants floating around in our air, can rain water actually be pure?
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. No, I won't drink water with the tap, EVER. Nor will I drink or give my kids stuff laced with fluoride, from the tap, look at the Harvard study and others. Tap water s no good, and I select my bottled water carefully. I haven't drank out of tap since 2005. And I also made my children's bottles with fluoride free bottled water. Why do you care so much who drinks bottled water? If you want to drink out of a nasty azz faucet then do it
, good for you. I'll drink out of my bottles, they all up in the 5 gyres anyway.
