Sheldon wrote:

Nonsense... wherever did you get that crazy idea? Water softeners add
no sodium, they actually remove existing sodium.

http://home.howstuffworks.com/question99.htm

quote: "The idea behind a water softener is simple.
The calcium and magnesium ions in the water are replaced with sodium ions."

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Stan Horwitz wrote:

Karen wrote:

Kind of like pay phones being replaced by cell phones, bottled water
has replaced the drinking fountain. Our disposable thinking.

Water fountains are pretty wasteful of water -- I doubt that
the user consumes as much as 10% of the water flowing out of one.
At least with a water bottle the user drinks 100% of the water.
(But yes, it's wasteful in other ways.)

We're under water restrictions here where I live.

I guess it depends on where you hang out. I know in Europe, water
fountains are unheard of.

They tend to have water taps instead, especially in Rome or
places once conquered by Rome. The historic Romans were very
proud of their ability to pipe water to every piazza and if you
look closely enough you will find a water outlet in most
of them. If there is no water shortage they might leave the
outlet continuously flowing. Until relatively recently (in a
historic sense) many people would fill up drinking water
containers from such taps.

Steve

Stan Horwitz wrote:

In article
,
Karen wrote:

On May 22, 2:47*am, Stan Horwitz wrote:
The only time I buy bottled water is if I am somewhere where I can't get
a cold drink of water any other way.

You just don't see very many drinking fountains anymore. And, if you
do, the ones you find don't work. It seems like when I was a kid and
if you were thirsty, you'd go get a drink out of the drinking
fountain.

Kind of like pay phones being replaced by cell phones, bottled water
has replaced the drinking fountain. Our disposable thinking.

Our water resources and landfills will be filled with toxicities
beyond return one day soon and we will leave this for our kids to
inherit.

I guess it depends on where you hang out. I know in Europe, water
fountains are unheard of.

I wonder what cultural/political/economic/whatever factors made this so
for Europe.


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Janet Baraclough wrote:

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Stan Horwitz wrote:

I guess it depends on where you hang out. I know in Europe, water
fountains are unheard of.

No.. -in my younger days we certainly used to have lots of drinking
fountains in Britain in public places like parks and school yards but no
longer, and I've also seen them in France .

So *that's* who stole yours!


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