Why anybody drinks bottled water is beyond me. I mean it tastes a little better than tap but tap has chemicals I need such as fluoride in it.
I have a 1 liter bottle of Everest bottle here at work. I keep refilling it with our filtered water, I don't really feel like spending all that money on bottle water.
Reuse Your Water Bottle? Better Think Twice Doctor Compares Water In Used Bottle To Lake Water UPDATED: 8:18 a.m. EST November 11, 2003 Health experts tell consumers to drink water and lots of it, and grabbing a bottle of water is quick and easy. But rather than throw the bottle out, have you refilled a water bottle again and again? Experts say refilling the bottle may be hazardous to your health. Volunteers at a Michigan gym were willing to give up their reused water bottles for lab testing. "It looks clean to me, but I'm sure you're going to find some stuff in there," said Tiffanie Barackman, an aerobics instructor. One volunteer was extra confident about her bottle being clean. She said she washed it often with scalding hot water. Do you reuse water bottles?Yes, all the timeYes, now and thenNo, never The bottles tested for bacteria at Paragon Labs in Livonia, Mich. Three out of the four bottles tested contained enough bacteria to make a person sick, according to Dr. Frank McGeorge, of Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. "This would be no different than drinking lake water," McGeorge said about one bottle. "Just imagine filling your bottle at the beach." When bacteria are measured, it is usually done in counts. A brand-new bottle of water should have a bacteria count of less than one. In Michigan, public swimming pools should have bacteria counts of less than 200. In the test, one of the volunteers' bottles had a bacteria count of 500, and another tested at 4,600. Although these amounts of bacteria aren't enough to kill you, McGeorge said they could certainly cause stomach aches, vomiting or diarrhea. McGeorge said that many of the commercial water bottles have ridges and that it is very difficult to get those ridge areas clean. A bacteria group called coliforms were found in one bottle. Although the bacteria is not disease-causing itself, it does serve as an indicator of the presence of bacteria like e. coli and fecal coliforms, according to the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The volunteers were surprised at the amount of bacteria lurking in each bottle. Although her bottle wasn't clinically sterile, the safest bottle belonged to our volunteer who washed her reused bottle with scalding water. "I'm shocked that it's that clean, but I'm pretty impressed with myself," she said. Experts say if you insist on reusing your bottle, make sure you wash it thoroughly with hot soapy water after every use, and let it dry before you refill it. .
Lil Pun: Your teeth can use flouride to help clean them, but your body does NOT like it. That is why flourinated mouthwash is NOT to be swallowed. But, tap water not only has flouride, but literally thousands upon thousands of tiny particles that get past filtration and aren't destroyed with chlorine or flouride including microbial organisms unaffected by those chemicals. I worked at Ozarka and watched them put the local tap through their reverse osmosis system for their bottled drinking water. You would not believe the crap that is filtered out of the tap water. We have an RO system in our kitchen. When the filters are changed every six months, they are black and slimy, all from filtering tap water. If Dasani is run through a typical RO system, no one should complain. That thing wipes out 99.999% of everything in tap water. Now, if you REALLY want purification, get distilled water. Not only is it sent through the reverse osmosis process, but it is usually boiled and NOTHING (i.e. mineral salts, etc.) is added for flavor.
ya think brita takes care of most of the tap water crap?? i'm with you...the taste of tap water tells me all i need to know...and it freaks me out!!!
It absolutely does NOT. Britta just removes the smell and some of the larger particles. It is not an adequate filter if you want to "purify" your water. Ozarka offers RO systems for $25/month. It's worth it to me.
anyone watch "Unwrapped" on the Food Channel? They had this one segment on Penta water and how its purified, it was pretty cool. oh they also had a thing with straw making too http://www.pentawater.com/index.php
Bottled water is so expensive, especially the brand-name kind (though it seems to taste pretty good). The water out here is extremely hard, so we've started going to the water machines and filling up gallon jugs for 30 cents each. Otherwise, you can just buy a new jug for 50 cents or something at the grocery. I wonder if some people buy the fancy stuff once and then keep the bottle around, filling it with tap water or whatever, just to look good and make people think they're drinking bottled water. My water bottle is meant to be reused; it's insulated and has a shoulder strap.
max, yeah, that's pretty much me. But I thought Jeff told you about the yelling already. You're starting to turn into SamFisher/Spectreman or something like that. Watch yourself.
I imagine you'd enjoy that wouldn't you, to have a copy of me to neutralize me -- however, had you paid attention to season 2, you'd realize that already happened. There can be only one.
Hey, I tried. Season 2 was pretty good, as my exploits go. And besides, how do you know that you aren't really the bad Spectreman? Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Okay, as for relevance to the thread, you earthlings are foolishly polluting too much of your water supply. That is really the main reason a few Space Apes are out to destroy you. We honestly like your planet and want to protect all the water.
"Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water? Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water? On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason. Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water? "You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."
