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Default Bottled water... Safer?

On 12/5/2013 6:38 AM, Pete C. wrote:
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> "Pearl F. Buck" wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>

>>
>> With one caveat, bacteria count.
>>
>> Sometimes that can be out of range.

>
> In a municipal water system? Absolutely. Depending on your location in
> the system the analysis of your tap water can be far outside allowable
> standards, something the anti bottled water loons pretend doesn't exist.


Yes.

> Municipal water systems test at the source plant daily, but they only
> test at the extents of the system to a minimal amount to meet annual
> testing requirements. Even those annual testing requirements allow a
> percentage of the samples from the far reaches of the system to exceed
> allowable contaminant levels.
>

True also.