Maybe drinking water from the tank is safer.

[TitanMike]

https://news-yahoo-com.cdn.ampprojec...150410025.html

In reading this report it appears that bottled water regulations are not what we all think.

Even when contamination is found much of the bottled product is already consumed during to delays or just plain inaction.

[D W]

I've never put much stock in "bottled water" myself. To start with, it's 1000% overpriced and you have no idea where the water comes from. A long standing saying about the big distributor of bottled water EVIAN:

EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE!

[Librarianocnj]

I always use Crystal Geyser water. It’s bottled at several natural springs all around the country. Available at Dollar Tree. I also like that it had a screw top.

[NJKris]

The water from my FW tank is the BEST Jerry, the best!!! Yes, I drink the water!!!! I kind of want to force others who have some irrational fear of drinking campground water to do so. Maybe trick them into it somehow. Put it in a commercial water bottle when they visit my camp, and go "Ahaaa!!! You're drinking CAMPGROUND WATER!!" lol.

[TitanMike]

Originally Posted by Librarianocnj

I always use Crystal Geyser water. It’s bottled at several natural springs all around the country. Available at Dollar Tree. I also like that it had a screw top.

Feel free to drink whatever you like.

The point of the article was that there is essentially NO EFFECTIVE regulation of the bottled water industry. Even water from "natural springs" can contain harmful ingredients leached from the surrounding elements.

Note the known carcinogens found in one bottled water that supposedly came from natural sources.

Where I live a large bottling company (big name brand) wanted to set up a plant in a large city nearby. They wanted to draw millions of gallons from the city water supply. Reason? The city water was sourced up in the nearby mountains from snow and glacier melt. No doubt they figured they could advertise the "glacier melt" part on their labels.

What I'm sure they wouldn't advertise that it first had to run down through a wilderness area (with all those animals doing what animals do in the woods), was then collected in a large lake (with fish doing what fish do in the water) and then treated through the city water plant.

In short their bottled water would be exactly the same as what comes out of the local taps ------------- EXCEPT ------- the local tap water is tested and if any contamination makes it into the distribution lines the users get notified as soon as it's detected and testing occurs frequently.

Not so with bottled water and the most likely source of contamination just might be those nice looking bottles with screw caps that have been exposed to who knows what while waiting to be filled.

Drink up

[frank4711]

Making me thirsty

[Jfkmk]

Safest thing to do is stick with a strong IPA.

[gastan]

Originally Posted by TitanMike

The point of the article was that there is essentially NO EFFECTIVE regulation of the bottled water industry.

In short their bottled water would be exactly the same as what comes out of the local taps ------------- EXCEPT ------- the local tap water is tested and if any contamination makes it into the distribution lines the users get notified as soon as it's detected and testing occurs frequently.

Not so with bottled water and the most likely source of contamination just might be those nice looking bottles with screw caps that have been exposed to who knows what while waiting to be filled.

1. No regulation is a good thing according to some people.

2. If the local water bureau finds problems and notifies users, I would assume that would include the bottling plant and they would take appropriate/necessary action.

3. Guess we need to stop drinking anything that comes in a nice looking bottle - water, beer, wine, soda, coffee .......

All my comments aside, I also don't think bottled water is a good idea and rarely - very, very rarely - will indulge in it.

[bikendan]

Bottled water is the biggest scam in the world and one of the largest world polluters.
There has been numerous studies that shows in public taste tests, that most preferred the city water to the bottled water. The majority of the public couldn't taste any difference.

[frank4711]

Yep it is a crap shoot out there .... consumer beware ... know what you are buying and that applies to food and water ... we have a well that I send thru a big carbon filter and the water is good ... I buy bottle water for kids and grand kids they get what they want it is a paw paw deal ... I drink campground and tank water and I drank a lot of hose water late fifties and sixties

[mdstudey]

Originally Posted by bikendan

Bottled water is the biggest scam in the world and one of the largest world polluters.
There has been numerous studies that shows in public taste tests, that most preferred the city water to the bottled water. The majority of the public couldn't taste any difference.

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And not to mention all of those single use bottles filling up landfills, ditches, lake and even our oceans.



If you keep a clean FW tank you should not have any problems. I have had wells that was pumped out of the ground into a pressure tank and into my house. No filtration or chemicals added and it was the best water ever. Wish I had it again. I can smell the chlorine at times when they do a heavy treatment with out local water.


I will admit that I do have to buy a bottle of water on occasions because of health problems. Other than that it comes straight out of the tap. If I lived in Detroit that would be a whole different issue.

[TitanMike]

Originally Posted by gastan

1. No regulation is a good thing according to some people.

2. If the local water bureau finds problems and notifies users, I would assume that would include the bottling plant and they would take appropriate/necessary action.

3. Guess we need to stop drinking anything that comes in a nice looking bottle - water, beer, wine, soda, coffee .......

All my comments aside, I also don't think bottled water is a good idea and rarely - very, very rarely - will indulge in it.

That's an assumption I certainly wouldn't make myself. WHO at the bottling plant gets the notification? What do they actually do about it? Shutting down production usually means profit losses so it's the last thing they want to do.

As to "notifications" in general, remember that the FBI office in Florida knew about the Stoneman-Douglas High School shooter long BEFORE he acted. The warning(s) just sat on a desk. What makes anyone think the bureaucracy in the average Corporation would act any different?

[BandJCarm]

Read the bottle. The source is usually listed.

[NJKris]

I buy bottle water for kids and grand kids they get what they want

Frank, refill the bottle with tap water, they won't know the difference. Don't let paw paw get pushed around!

[frank4711]

Originally Posted by NJKris

Frank, refill the bottle with tap water, they won't know the difference. Don't let paw paw get pushed around!

Yea well this one is now 2 and she runs the place

[TitanMike]

Originally Posted by NJKris

Frank, refill the bottle with tap water, they won't know the difference. Don't let paw paw get pushed around!

That's exactly what my Daughter did for three kids. Bottles got refilled from the tap and re-used until lost or someone poked a hole in it.

[AbdRahim]

Thanks for the reminder. Just ordered another maleness bottle and carrier. Usually carry my own tap water, for exercise during the summer. I buy one case of bottles on the road and it lasts all summer, even end up bringing some home.

[NJKris]

Spoil 'er too much and before you know it her horns will be scraping the ceiling! Actually perfect candidate for giving any kind of water to, lol, she definitely won't tell the difference! I can't, and I have the nose of a bloodhound. Kind of a curse actually. I was a very picky eater when I was a kid because everything smelled and tasted so strong.

[TitanMike]

Originally Posted by bikendan

Bottled water is the biggest scam in the world and one of the largest world polluters.

Pollution aside I never figured out why so many are willing to pay over a $1.00 a gallon (Nestle sells for $1.37/gallon in 5 gallon jugs) when for the same price you can usually get 1,000 gallons of good water from your tap.

Don't like the chlorine taste, put a filter on either water line or tap itself. Those filters are often rated to filter 10,000 gallons or more. Using a $35 KW-1 filter element (which has a 10,000 gallon life) as an example, that means the cost of water out of the filter only goes up $0.0037 cents per gallon.

In 2012 the bottled water industry made $11.8 billion off the public by charging 2,000 times more than what tap water costs and where most of the bottlers get their water to begin with. And we thought that the Government was the only one that knew how to give us the shaft

[NJKris]

It's a weird phenomenon started by the Seinfeld show, where everyone walked around drinking bottled water. The tap water in NYC was weird I'll admit. I visited my sister in the Bronx when before that show started, and the tap water was cloudy and smelled like YMCA pool water. It was PROBABLY just air mixed in. And I learned that even chlorinated water you can pour and let sit and the chlorine dissipates.