On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:05:03 -0700, "Pearl F. Buck"
> wrote:

> On 12/4/2013 10:51 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:19:13 -0500, "Pete C." >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Jill
> >>
> >> I'm afraid you are absolutely wrong. Bottled water does not contain
> >> chlorine or fluoride, both highly toxic chemicals, nor does it contain
> >> the numerous additional toxic reaction products these two toxins produce
> >> when they contact the decades of sludge in every municipal water system.
> >> Bottled water is absolutely safer than municipal tap water in every
> >> scientifically provable way.
> >
> > You are truly an imbecile... bottled water IS tap water... what a dumb
> > ass.
> >
>
> Not all:
>
> http://www.calistogawater.com/NaturalSource.aspx
>

Arrowhead water comes from springs too.

According to this California is stricter than most states with
enforcement of rules and regulations for bottled water, but it ends by
saying "The long-term solution to our water woes is to fix our tap
water so it is safe for everyone, and tastes and smells good."
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/exesum.asp

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