On 2013-12-03 17:47:00 +0000, jmcquown said:

> On 12/3/2013 12:40 PM, wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:36:16 AM UTC-8, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/XfPAjUvvnIc
>>
>> The truth about tap water:
>>
>> http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-..._birth-defects
>>
>> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~narten/faq/water-treatment.html
>>
>> But if it's safe for pregnant women to drink, and it's not killing your fish,
>> it's not too bad. But after years of drinking bottled water, drinking, say,
>> Chicago water is like jumping into a swimming pool.
>>
> I dunno about Chicago water. I get an occasional 'water report'. I
> drink tap water. I don't pay for bottled water. The only reason I
> ever had to buy bottled water was when we lived in Bangkok.
>
> Memphis water was from natural aquifers. Just fine and not toxic.
> Here I drink filtered water from the tap. Bottled water is a waste of
> money and everyone thinks it is "healtier". I say BS. Just more
> plastic bottles.

No extra bottles if you subscribe to such as Sparkletts (or any of the
water-suppliers they have absorbed); they pick up their bottles and
drop off new ones.

We drink distilled (now marketed as "purified") water and have it
delivered in 5-gallon jugs. Mineral content from different fresh
sources produces different things. Distilling makes it a little more
consistent.

Setting taste aside, I don't TRUST the people who operate all that mess
from cross-state all the way to my tap, it's just a big black box. I
know I could be a better "consumer" if I read daily reports of their
quarterly content stats. My problem with the "tap water is safe"
thinking is that it is always AFTER a contamination that we are
informed of the problems and/or errors they 1) overlooked, 2) were not
testing for, 3) could never have imagined, 4) they refuse to
acknowledge until 20 years in court.

I've been hearing for at least 2-3 years that fracking has the
potential to pollute the aquifirs from which many municipalities (and
some bottlers!) draw their drinking water. That too doesn't make me
very comfortable as fracking enterprise expands.

Those are my concerns.

I just called Sparkletts to find out exactly where the water comes from
and *how* it is "purified". Giving up on their site, I'm now waiting
for cserve aid on their 800 line.

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