Posted on 12/10/2016 6:47:27 AM PST by Macoozie
“This whole bottled water industry—it should not exist and I think that in ten or twenty years it will be it won’t exist or it’ll have major warning labels like cigarettes do today.”
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That’s because a lot of those areas don’t charge enough for water. Tucson water costs about 1/3 of what Detroit water costs. Guess which city companies that need a lot of water will aim towards.
If cities would do a good job of treating the water before it hit our taps there wouldn’t be this industry.
It’s funny how everything is relative. City people complain about city water and people like me on well dream about iron free, mineral free city water. Yeah I can get a softener filter FOR $3,000 DOLLARS!
I buy bottled water for when tap on water is unavailable like camping and boating, hunting etc.
That water I use as the basis for my addiction. (uh, coffee)
We’ve had a well for 30 yrs. & then more people moved out
here and were on wells. Then, when “city water” came in,
they all hooked on. We did not. Now, the sulfur in our
well water has diluted since we’re the only ones on it. -
I’m used to it; but city people make rude noises when they
drink out water. I don’t even offer unless asked any more.
We had it tested several years ago and it tested OK.
The federal excise tax on sparkling wine and Champagne is $3.40/gallon.
The tax on wine that is not carbonated is $0.17/gallon on the first
250,000 gallons a winery produces. It goes to $1.09/gallon on any more than that.
The 20x rate for sparkling was established in 1934 on the premise that only rich people drank wine containing carbon dioxide.
Makes sense.
I’ve had that water. It’s very similar to Chippewa. Good stuff.
There’s ALWAYS another monthly bill!!
Never less bills though.
I do like the Fiji water as an indulgence. But for boating hunting etc I like the resealable cap and overall size.
Boston always has great tap water.The city built what’s called the Quabbin Reservoir 60 miles east of the city in the 1930’s. The water is sent to Boston via aqueducts.
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/18/boston-wins-annual-tap-water-taste-contest/
This is how they did:
Buried Towns
The Quabbin Reservoir was built in the 1930s. It was created by flooding the Swift River Valley, a name given to this area by Europeans whom began settling here in the 1730s. In pre-colonial times a Native American chief named Quabbin lived in the valley. The name Quabbin means ‘many waters’.
The reservoir was built by the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (MDC). Buildings were demolished, topsoil was scrapped off and railroad tracks were torn up. All people living in the valley were forced to sell their homes and leave. In the end, 36 miles of state highway were relocated; many miles of other roads were abandoned; 16 miles of railroad tracks were removed; 8 train stations were demolished; the contents of mills, farms, stores and houses were sold or auctioned, and structures were bulldozed into their foundations; hilltops and mountaintops became islands; and 7500 bodies were removed from old cemeteries and re-interred in Quabbin Park Cemetery in the town of Ware, MA. Once the valley was cleared, It took 7 years for the reservoir to fill.
For the past couple of years I’ve been subscribing to a number of on-line fitness/nutrition letters, and all have had similar negative stories about bottled water. We seldom use it: once in a while on a trip, or during a power outage. While it may be a racket, I sympathize with those who feel they don’t have a viable alternative. Good water was always a problem in rural upstate NY, where I lived for 5 decades. There, the major problem was the prevalence of sulfur water.
I now live in MA, where the major problems are acidity and hardness. The water from our well was destroying hot water heaters about every 2 years until the previous owner bought an acid neutralizer. We had the water tested a year or so after buying the place, and the hardness was off the charts. So we bought a softener/conditioner. There is a total of about $6K worth of treatment equipment in our basement, but the water is now wonderful. Did we pay? Certainly, but at least we don’t have to depend on bottled. I never buy bottled if I can avoid it, and I would never live where I had to accept municipal water either. We now enjoy the best water of my 62 years, and no more fussing with Brita either. I also bought a gasoline/LP generator so I can rely on the well during a power outage. (Now I just need to harden the entire installation against EMP! LOL)
WOW!!!!
So there’s abandoned roads at the bottom of that reservoir in a few areas?
That’s spooky! :)
But VERY COOL story. Thanks
My favorite bottled water is vodka.
Neither is Texas.
“But VERY COOL story. Thanks”
Your welcome!
If it can be said that water has taste, this water has it and it is great. You really WANT to drink it. Too bad most of the towns that the water flows through to get to Boston didn’t want to chip in some money back in the day...they have no access to it even today.
Julia is obviously not very well traveled. I’ll read her report when she goes to Midland, Texas, and drinks some unfiltered tap water. She can follow up with a chaser from Flint, Michigan.
As for SodaStream, well, the Dispys and NeoCons ought to keep them in business.
” but city people make rude noises “
I guess they are not well people.
I’m not addicted to water, I can quit anytime.
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