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Originally posted by Tunnel Rat Bottled water is not sold in many of these countries.

as a tourist in China (beijing for me) do NOT buy bottled water except from an actual store.. they refill bottles of water and try to sell them as bottled water.. and the tap water will make you sick..

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Originally posted by Tunnel Rat This shouldn't be surprising to people. Bottled water is nothing more than a perfectly executed marketing campaign by Aquafina, Dasani, etc.; most of which are owned by soft drink manufacturing companies. They are double-dipping into may people's wallets and consumers don't even know it.

Dasani makes me laugh - its whole campaign is that its filtered 5x - OOOOOH, if I ran my tap water through the brita five times, I'd get the exact same thing.

the only bottled water I trust to be worth anything other than tap water is evian.

If you've looked at the lables on the back of bottles of water, you can see the ppm's of some of the free elements that would normaly exist in water. What is usually missing from those lables, meaning its not in the water is Fluoride. Our tap water has fluoride in it, so generally speaking tap water is much better for our teeth than bottled water.

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Bottled water is not sold in many of these countries, which makes it even more silly

Your right about that...I remember seeing a Discovery channel program where they showed people drinking water out of a river only feet from where someone else was doing there laundry and who knows what else.

Wow, lots of misinformation here.

Your Brita filters that you use are pieces of shit. All they really do is remove the taste and smell of chlorine. The bad stuff is pretty much all left in the water. The water doesn't get run through the filter membranes long enough to really do anything.

Dasani water is very heavily filtered using a reverse osmosis system. It is then re-mineralized to have "some" things put back into it. It isn't mineral water, though. Dasani is nothing more than tap water that was very, VERY heavily filtered and then bottled. It's very safe stuff.

Aquafina is the exact same shit as Dasani, but doesn't have minerals re-added to it.

Spring water is pretty much the best stuff for you, aside from real mineral water. It's got all those minerals and whatnot in it, and is usually triple-filtered (run through 3 different types of filters) to remove any biological contaminmants. Then it'll be ozonized (adding ozone to the water to kill anything that may have gotten past the filters). This added ozone dissipates over a period of about 24 hours.

Something of note - Perrier is NOT mineral water anymore. The water they draw from their spring has 475ppm (parts per million) of dissolved solids (minerals and such). By Canadian law, a water cannot be declared mineral water unless it has a dissolved solid content of over 500ppm.

So instead of springing for that super expensive mineral water with like 510ppm, go for the much much cheaper spring water with a content of like 450ppm or something like that. For instance, the Nestle Pure Life spring water I'm drinking right now has a content of 480ppm and isn't even $5 for a case of 24.


Oh yeah, if the name of the water has the word "Springs" in it, it isn't necessarily spring water. Check the label closely, under the name, if it is really genuine spring water, it is required by law to say "NATURAL SPRING WATER" under the name, and then the source it is bottled from.

she certainly doesn't think so....


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I have an artesian well where I live. Delicious water!

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Originally posted by smuncky Glacial Water is the best water i have ever tasted. too bad it costs a lot and u gotta know where to find it

Where I used to live as a kid (Revelstoke, BC) that's all we had; awesome stuff and the best in the World.

I've read studies on centenarians (people who live to be 100) and they figured one link was the access to glacial water. The run-off of essential minerals that the water picked up while coming down the mountian, kept them healther than others who didn't have access to those same minerals in their normal diet.

My wife and I went to a seminar...oh...well over 6-7 yrs ago and they talked about how bottled water actually has less regulations than tap water.
(I know this is true because I know of a guy in Revelstoke that made a mint bottling water right out of the stream and shipped it to Japan for his fortune.)
They tested the water and found that Dasani (Coke) was actually one of the best for treating their water since they use a reverse osmosis process but add minerals back. Believe it or not, you can strip water down too much; they have to add some of the minerals back that your body requires.

For home use, we bought a counter-style, carbon-block based water filter for our tap that we replace every year and man is that thing GROSS when we change it.
I don't drink out the tap EVER unless forced to...

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Today, the bottled water industry is very, very heavily regulated.

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Originally posted by Euphorica I do use a brita filter at home though. Cuts back on the metal/sewer taste that the tap typically has.

Brita is better than nothing but not much better.
Sure it will get rid of the particulates but that's about it.
There's still TONS of stuff in the water you don't see that's worse that what you do see.
Might as well drink out of the tap...

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some tap water can be really fucking discusting!

I prefer fresh,clean bottled water.

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After doing our own water test we found that our drink of choice is:

Fred's Performance Oxygenated Sprint Water

It's a little more expensive than most of the bottled water out there...and sometimes we try other waters for variety but we always come back to Fred's.

Glacial water sounds thirst quenching...but where would we find it and how expensive is it really?

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