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The story next week will be, “Huge supplies of bottled water found in Newsom’s, Anderson’s kitchens.”
This person has never hit the water bottle. Call me crazy but I drink tap water, although I would drink well water if I could. The house I bought had a well but the owners filled it in about five years before I bought it. I guess that I have been fortunate enough to live places with the water looked clear, did not smell or did not have a taste to it, either that or there is something in my subconscious that tells me bottled water connotes snobbery.
Can’t complain about that.
1) Bottled water does not have to pass the same purity tests that tap water does.
2) Some bottled water is just bottled tap water.
3) Taste tests show that 50% can’t tell the difference, 25% prefer tap and 25% prefer bottled.
When our community water system (at my old house) sold to the Borough Water Authority, we went from mostly spring water to all well water. That was what drove the sale - the state was requiring significant changes in “public” water that essentially favored well water.
That was fine, even though the well water was harder than hard. Then, because the Borough water system was expanding, they added an additional chlorination station out in our area (making 2 on the system). Apparently the law requires them to show a certain level of chlorine in the water at the furthest points from the chlorinator to meet clean water standards. As the system expanded more, they’d increase the amount of chlorine so they could pass at the furthest point - that made the chlorine in our neighborhood really strong. Some days I’d turn on the faucet and the running water would smell like a public pool.
Do you know what they do when people start to complain about the smell and taste of the chlorine? They add ammonia to cut the smell. That’s the point that I started buying bottled water to drink - not only was the taste of public water poor, but they were adding a cocktail of chemicals that I just don’t think can be good for us. The government requirements for safe water has a checklist of what you can’t have in certain amounts, primarily geared toward bacteria and only covering a few chemicals... Luckily, where I live now I have my own well, which we treat with UV as a precaution - it tastes great, makes great coffee, and doesn't leave lime deposits on everything. I rarely buy bottled water now.
It getting hotter but you don’t dare drink bottled water because if you hydrate yourselves it will end up in a landfill. Why get out of bed we will just hurt the earth and ourselves. Sometimes a silly EMO rant just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I went to a conference in Berkeley. I couldn’t drink their tap water. Even the Coke (coming from the machine, not bottle or can) tasted bad because they had to use the tap water.
Is San Fransisco still part of the United States?
Just hearing about this mayor makes me want to grab a whip.
This is good. Now the government officials and agencies who legislate fluoride into the water supply will be forced to drink it themselves.
Fluoride is added to San Francisco’s and Salt Lake City’s water supplies (and 2/3 of US public water supplies), not to purify it, but to prevent tooth decay in tap water drinkers. Modern science shows it is ineffective, harmful to health and a waste of tax dollars.
Fluoride chemicals are silicofluorides - waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry. They are dumped unpurified into the water supply. They are allowed to have trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other contaminants.
See: http://www.nsf.org/business/water_distribution/pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Studies link silicofluorides to children’s higher blood lead levels which, in turn, are linked to higher rates of tooth decay.
The statistics prove that tooth decay is on the rise along with fluoride over dose symptoms - dental fluorosis
So drink up government officials and make sure your kids do, too. If you are buying bottled water at home to protect your family, you should be protecting all constituents by ending water fluoridation.
We’ve always noticed that at public meetings by legislators of health department of officials - only bottled water is served. If they won’t drink the tap water, why should we trust them when they claim it is safe.
For more info:
Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.Org
Now Rocky is Utah’s Mike Bloomberg, as well as being Utah’s Al Gore.
Rocky is also going to change the liquor laws in Utah because people make fun of Utah when they can’t get a drink easily. (I don’t drink and even I know how to get a drink in Utah...)
If the bottle is capped and then discarded. It traps air in the non-biodegradable water bottle for decades. Environmentalist are concerned that the one billion capped water bottles a year could reduce breathable atmosphere by fifty percent by 2050.
-PJ
