Wendell, post: 324779, member: 1 wrote: We have good water but we still run it through a Pur pitcher for drinking purposes.
Santiam River water for the folks in Salem, if I am not mistaken.
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Here? Absolutely not! I'll use it for showers and teeth brushing but won't gulp it down, it's classified as non-potable. There are pallets everywhere stacked with bottled water. In the States, it depends. In an aquatic chem course I learned there are some compounds that you just can't get out except maybe through reverse osmosis (very expensive). I lived in New Orleans and there is a reason for the highest GI cancer rate in the country; so I got used to bottled water that came from better water taps. When at home in western Colorado, the water is awesome! Our water is the winter's snow melt with nothing but critters doing their thing in it before my tap - no agricultural runoff. Drink it from the tap all the time. Paden, you need to tell all those people with water bottles in the hot truck about the seriously bad compounds that the plastic imparts to the water when it's exposed to the sun. So all those stacks of water I must use for my consumption here at work are probably more toxic then the camp's tap water that is filtered via reverse osmosis but delivered through a non-sanitized system:-S
I carry bottled water to the field, just because it's convenient. Around the house/office I carry a large coffee mug that I drop ice in and run it full of tap water from the well. When I'm working in the yard I'll grab the hose and drink from it. It hasn't made me sick yet.
The new scam around here though is this purification crowd out of Raleigh. They tack a plastic vial to your mailbox with a card about a free water test. You put your well water in there and send it in and they'll test the water "free of charge". If there are problems they'll let you know and come out and "help" (Sell) you a remedy to fix it. I've been drinking from my well since 2004 and it hasn't killed me yet so I have declined the free water test. My brother-in-law has his tested regularly and has all sorts of things to treat his nasty water. Mind you, he never had a problem the ten years before he started testing his water and nobody on the same block has problems.
That reminds me of the phone calls I used to receive from the "magic stuff" people attempting to sell me stuff to poor down the drain. It would enter the septic tank and lateral system, then "POOOOOF" everything but pure water would magically leave that system and extend the life of my septic system.
Ehhemmmmm don't you mean pour? [SARCASM]GOTCHA!!!![/SARCASM]
DANG THAT WAS FUN!!!!
Holy Cow, post: 324843, member: 50 wrote: That reminds me of the phone calls I used to receive from the "magic stuff" people attempting to sell me stuff to poor down the drain. It would enter the septic tank and lateral system, then "POOOOOF" everything but pure water would magically leave that system and extend the life of my septic system.
Ehemmmmm- don't you mean " pour"?[SARCASM]GOTCHA!![/SARCASM]
DANG that was fun!!!!
Rassin' frassin' spellin' police are everywhere. All I have to do is look at a mirror and I see one of 'em.
I'm so happy I could make someone else happy today.
IMO Lewis Black nails it. Every time, no matter the subject.
Yes, I drink municipal water. It's well water, filtered and chlorinated. Yes, it tastes chlorinated- so, we have a gallon glass jug in the refrigerator, after sitting overnight the chlorine taste is gone. Just a splash goes nicely with whiskey, or whisky.
SWMBO used to buy bottled water by the case, but after she couldn't tell Poland Spring from the jug water in a taste test, she's backed off on those purchases.
SS
paden cash, post: 324766, member: 20 wrote: I just realized I'm the only one I know that drinks tap water. My smarty-pants-kids-with-the-MBA will be more than happy to explain why my health is at risk for doing so, too. And the grandkids watch in some sort of disbelief as a grab my best "jelly-jar-glass" out of the cabinet and swill myself a good glassful. They're too young to tell Grandpa he's doing it wrong...
And my wife, bless her heart, is respectful. She doesn't say anything, but watches me as I drink with her pursed lips and a slight scowl...like I'm fixing to spit it out because of its horrible taste. Gimme a friggin' break!
None of the crews keep a water-jug in the trucks. The backroom has several of them stacked up next to the screwed up rods, tripods and dirty old Schonstedt cases. We buy cases of bottled water and the fridge in the break room is full of them. This time of year the guys grab as many bottles as they need in the morning and carry on. I do take three or four myself when I'm headed to the field, but just because there's no water jug in the truck. The other day at the office I was a little parched and in the break room I just grabbed one of the many coffee cups that populate the ever present dish drain rack next to the sink. I filled it from the tap and gulped down a good little hit. One of my lesser-ranked and youngest employee watched me and said, "There's cold water in the fridge", like if given the choice, I'd prefer the bottled. "I'm good" I told him. He told me he can't stand tap water. I can't believe he thinks he can tell the difference. I dropped the conversation. The mental shortcomings of some of my employees is a deep and dark place where you don't want to spend much time....
My tap water is from a reservoir. That's a fancy French word for 'lake' or 'pond'. And in the spring the lake 'turns' and the water has a distinct odor and flavor. Not repulsive by any means, just distinct. But I chug it anyway. We have a state-of-the-art water treatment plant that made several consulting engineers rich. We pay the operators there to daily sample our water for all sorts of junk from fecal coliform to cryptosporidium to trihalomethanes. They also juice it up with a little fluoride before sending it out for general consumptions. I feel like somebody has at least looked at it!
This bottled water deal is a rip. Their mark-up has to heavenly. I've got visions of "sweat-shops" in a crummy warehouse in Detroit full of illegal immigrants filling water bottles from the crusty pipes...screw the lid on tight and package it up with a pretty picture of a snow covered alpine peak and you're done. I'm not buying it.
I guess drinking tap water has risen to the unhealthy level like consuming sugar-substitutes, nitrate treated meat, or smoking three packs of Camels a day....I'll be a goner in no time. And at my funeral my whole family will shake their heads and whisper among themselves, "We tried to stop him..."
I drink tap water and even water from a garden hose. I very seldom get sick. I don't litter with bottled water.
Always have. I grew up on tap water. For the last 10 years I've been using a Britta. I have never really gotten sick.... knock on wood...
Bottled water can have it's problems too.
Here is a current issue with bottled water in the northeastern portion of the U.S.A.
http://patch.com/connecticut/rockyhill/e-coli-concerns-prompt-massive-bottled-water-recall
I do drink my tap water. Not because I like it particularly. Because I won't buy into that bottled BS either.
When I moved here 8 years ago from NC mountains [well water], I noticed pool-smell of it the first time I turned on the spicket. I don't, but probably wouldn't hurt to, use of a filter either.
I do miss my mountain well water. Super clean - and cold.
E.
I drink municipal tap water. Like others note, the cost of bottled water can be outrageous. The fact that even world renowned bottled water providers like Perrier have sold contaminated water (benzene in the 1990s- look it up) should make us all realize how dependent we are on the attention to detail of others. See: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/10/us/perrier-recalls-its-water-in-us-after-benzene-is-found-in-bottles.html
My utility sends me a nice breakdown of how they process water, what the accepted levels of possible contaminants are and how their treatment performed.
BTW, a friend insisted on only drinking Penta water. It has an 11-step 10-hour purification process. This leads to twelve-pack of one liter bottles costing $35! She had a number of endearing qualities; that was not one of them.
The costs of plastic bottles, transportation and the like (water imported from Fiji!) are wasteful.
My family drinks the "Smart Water" and still hasn't improved their IQ.. I buy bottled for convience but drink tap water all the time or filtered through the refrigerator. Probably the best water in the country.
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My wife is a Bottled water drinker. We have real good tap water here. She even makes coffee out of bottled water. I like to find her 3/4 th empty water bottles and almost fill them with tap water. I have been doing this for almost 6 years and she has never noticed. Our bottled water bil is about $10.00 per week.
Steve Corley, post: 324903, member: 23 wrote: My wife is a Bottled water drinker. We have real good tap water here. She even makes coffee out of bottled water. I like to find her 3/4 th empty water bottles and almost fill them with tap water. I have been doing this for almost 6 years and she has never noticed. Our bottled water bil is about $10.00 per week.
Brave brave man. Give us an update one day when she finds out.
Our tap water happens to be some of the best water in the State. SWMBO and I are anti-bottled water, to the point where we give out water bottle with our logo on them 🙂
I keep an igloo full of water in the work truck, just like the olden days before bottled water.
I'm just spoiled rotten when in comes to water. Comes out of a 200' deep well 100' from the house and aside from a bit of iron in the water, tastes better than anything I've ever purchased in a bottle, and comes out of the tap about a degree above freezing.
The one thing though that always bothered me is how people just take for granted turning on a tap and like magic water comes out. Most folks have no clue where that water came from or how it got there and could hardly care less, until it stops flowing. I had to haul water for everything for years until I had the scratch to sink that well and bury a water line, install a pressure tank, yada, yada. I know exactly where that water comes from and how it got to my tap, and it is a glorious thing! First night I filled that bath tub and took a soak with a six pack which after consuming I proceeded to call all my friends at 3 a.m. to announce the wonderful event! Yep. That went over just as you can imagine. o.O
I usually drink bottled water--Arrowhead, or Ozarka, Ice Mountain or another Nestle brand. If I'm traveling in the US, I may pick up a bottle of Fiji water as a treat. I can't stand Aquafina (Pepsi brand) or Dasani (Coca Cola). I will drink the tap water at my house, but not at work. They're different water districts.
Right out of the tap, except when fishing, then it's right out of the river with a quick steri-pen treatment.
