Bottled water being tap water

animaal

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

It often is!

Dasani, sold in the USA by Coca Cola, is basically tap water thats's been filtered/processed.

There's plenty of speculation that Riverrock is the same in this part of the world. It's not spring water, or mineral water anyway.

Slydice

Sugar Free Strayberry Flavour Volvic Water tastes awesome

just sayin...

Mercurius

When I lived in Amsterdam I'd pay 14c for a bottle of water in Albert Heijn, (oddly it was 1.40 just inside the door at the sandwich section, but only 14c inside) which was handy for bringing to the gym.

These days I carry an empty bottle around with me most places and just fill it at source.

orangebud

water in galway is sh1t

Kerry Spring is my choice

JCabot

Bottled water is like pi**ing money down the drain, if theres a problem with you water at home filter it and buy a glass or stainless container to carry it with you.

seamus

I can taste the difference in my tap water at home, but that's chlorine, not flouride. And it's only a very tiny difference. We run it through a filter in the fridge and then it tastes just fine.

I always tell my wife that she's wasting money buying bottled water, but she'll have none of it. She claims that some taste better than others, but it's all psychological.

Ask someone if water tastes different if you drink it from a mug rather than a glass and they'll say it does.

working fool

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

Deep Riverock is like drinking water and sh1t, except they filtered out the water.

Volvic is my choice.

Water you wear ! Lol

Bloke I know swears that stuff is just filtered tap water .
If it dosent say spring water bottled at source ?

Is he wrong ?

cursai

I work in a water factory and I have a weak bladder.

ejmaztec

My understanding is, from some guy who was looking into setting up a bottled water business, that the spring-water has to go through various chemical processes (to get rid of any crap that might be in it) before it can be bottled and sold, so it's not exactly "nature's product".

As long as no-one is sh1tting in your tap-water supply, there's no point buying the bottled stuff.

cloptrop

Naomi00 wrote: »

Ireland has an unusually high rate of Alzheimers. Flouride has been proven to contribute to the disease. You can work that one out..

Lead pipes are supposed to cause it too , can ballygowan or evian guarantee they dont have lead pipes anywhere.

Tap water is evaporated from the sea then precipitated into catchment areas ,, filtered then has a small bit of cleaners /chlorine flouride type stuff , put in.
Its constantly monitored
People who think all these waters are different shouldnt be deemed sane enough to handle their own finances .

alphabeat

http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm


to see original letter from a country, click in left column Country Fluoridation Status China BANNED: "not allowed" Austria REJECTED: "toxic fluorides" NOT added Belgium REJECTED: encourages self-determination – those who want fluoride should get it themselves. Finland STOPPED: "...do not favor or recommend fluoridation of drinking water. There are better ways of providing the fluoride our teeth need." A recent study found ..."no indication of an increasing trend of caries...." Germany STOPPED: A recent study found no evidence of an increasing trend of caries Denmark REJECTED: "...toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies in Denmark." Norway REJECTED: "...drinking water should not be fluoridated" Sweden BANNED: "not allowed". No safety data available! The Netherlands Inevitably, whenever there is a court decision against fluoridation, the dental lobby pushes to have the judgement overturned on a technicality or they try to get the laws changed to legalize it. Their tactics didn't work in the vast majority of Europe. Hungary STOPPED: for technical reasons in the '60s. However, despite technological advances, Hungary remains unfluoridated. Japan REJECTED: "...may cause health problems...." The 0.8 -1.5 mg regulated level is for calcium-fluoride, not the hazardous waste by-product which is added with artificial fluoridation.

stupidusername

seamus wrote: »

I can taste the difference in my tap water at home, but that's chlorine, not flouride. And it's only a very tiny difference. We run it through a filter in the fridge and then it tastes just fine.

I always tell my wife that she's wasting money buying bottled water, but she'll have none of it. She claims that some taste better than others, but it's all psychological.

Ask someone if water tastes different if you drink it from a mug rather than a glass and they'll say it does.

but that's because it does

I had to have an ultrasound once, and for that I had to drink 2 litres of water, I had bottled water - Vitel, not even sure it's around anymore, but after drinking that much of it in a short space of time I could get a horrible taste off it, and said I'd never drink it again.

Fighting Irish

staker wrote: »

U r ine ly joking surely??

*Gets coat*

god i wish boards had http://i.imgur.com/2XT1U.gif

Nothingbetter2d

swallow your toothpaste and mouthwash it makes your poo smell minty





caution doing so may kill you if your stupid enuff.

Fart

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

swallow your toothpaste and mouthwash it makes your poo smell minty





caution doing so may kill you if your stupid enuff.

My stupid enuff?

MellowToast

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Why? It keeps your teeth healthy.

That is why we brush our teeth with it. We then spit it out because toothpaste is not to be swallowed in large doses. I would rather not drink flurode (can't spell to save my life) and then have my stomach dissolve that chemical and out the pipe it goes.

chocksaway

Wonder do the people worried about drinking tap water and the chlorides, flourides etc drink coffee, smoke, take drugs of any description? Anything is toxic/dangerous in a high enough dose. Its been proven that eating too much celery causes cancer. So water is the least of your worries

MellowToast

chocksaway wrote: »

Wonder do the people worried about drinking tap water and the chlorides, flourides etc drink coffee, smoke, take drugs of any description? Anything is toxic/dangerous in a high enough dose. Its been proven that eating too much celery causes cancer. So water is the least of your worries

but you can't live off drugs and food. water can keep you alive by itself for up to a week. it is something that we should all be drinking everyday to stay healthy. so you see why people would be annoyed about getting more than just H20 in their taps

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

brummytom wrote: »

Buy a very cheap bottle of water (do you have home bargains there? 19p a bottle) and just fill it up with tap water. Stick it in the freezer though, water always tastes better cooler.


Bottled water's just a con, and people are idiots. That's why it sells.

Statements like this are silly.

Just because you can't taste the difference in water doesn't make it a con.

If I decide to buy water that's my choice. The water in Dublin tastes like sh!t. We have our own well in my parents place and that water is awesome. Doesn't taste of chemicals and other crap.

chocksaway

MellowToast wrote: »

but you can't live off drugs and food.

Not exactly true. All food contains water. And all water no matter where it comes from contains trace elements. Salts from rocks end up in. It is never pure water that comes out of a tap. And would you really wanna drink pure water, as in distilled deionised water. Cause i've tasted it and its rank! Flourides are tasteless and the chlorides are needed to kill any bugs that get into the supply through damaged pipes etc. No one will know if they take flouride out and it won't really have any effect on anyone but people still won't be drinking pure water

MellowToast

chocksaway wrote: »

Not exactly true. All food contains water. And all water no matter where it comes from contains trace elements. Salts from rocks end up in. It is never pure water that comes out of a tap. And would you really wanna drink pure water, as in distilled deionised water. Cause i've tasted it and its rank! Flourides in are tasteless and the chlorides are needed to kill any bugs that get into the supply through damaged pipes etc. No one will know if they take flouride out and it won't really have any effect on anyone but people still don't be drinking pure water

ah science. I knew some1 would correct me, tell me there is water in food. I'm not an airhead, its just mentioning that took away from my point. And oh my he pulled out "deionised", I liked science as a kid...

If your water doesn't taste nice then buy a filter for your house or just the tap you use most often for drinking water. Buy a couple if your not a moron you can make your own uber filtration system

chocksaway

MellowToast wrote: »

ah science. I knew some1 would correct me, tell me there is water in food. I'm not an airhead, its just mentioning that took away from my point. And oh my he pulled out "deionised", I liked science as a kid...

If your water doesn't taste nice then buy a filter for your house or just the tap you use most often for drinking water. Buy a couple if your not a moron you can make your own uber filtration system

My point is people should be more worried about carcinogens from other sources then a couple of milligrams of flouride in water. Fluorescent lights contain mercury and everyone has been in a room with a broken one at some stage, and everyone knows cigarettes have tar and arsenic and the sun's uv rays cause cancer and yet know one really thinks twice about it.. So again a couple of milligrams of flouride and chloride in water means feck all

Capt'n Midnight

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

Deep Riverock is like drinking water and sh1t, except they filtered out the water.

Volvic is my choice.

It used to be called Desani. CokeCola owned it and was made from tap water until one day they added carcinogens and that was the brand trashed.

So they changed the name , horrible stuff.



Perrier did the same, added carcinogens to water.