Posted on 04/18/2011 8:37:21 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Hmmm, change the label lettering color from black to green, double the price and sell it as environmentally sound water to the gullible.
You may applaud.
EVIAN is backwards for what ?
LOL! The amount of ignorance about US municipal water systems, water treatment and regulation is just stunning.
A whole lot of superstitious mumbo-jumbo and next to zero factual content.
Yeah, and don’t ask me how I know. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life explaining this stuff to people who are too lazy to read the little brochures your municipal providers send you with this info.
I’ll just say the US municipal water industry is probably the most regulated industry in the world. Ordinary tap water is the safest stuff you can consume.
A lot of bottled water is just tap water. Check out the Penn & Teller BS episode on it. They set up a fake high-end restaurant supposedly featuring the best fancy “glacier melted” etc. waters from all over the world. The customers oohed and aahed over the taste and compared the differences, and talked about how much better it was than tap.
But in the end every bottle was filled from the garden hose out back.
“I’ll just say the US municipal water industry is probably the most regulated industry in the world.”
Indeed! I have been the chief operator of a small public water system for almost 30 years. The standards, regulations and testing are very stringent. And we’re closely monitored by the Public Utilities Commission and the dreaded EPA.
There definitely is a lot of BS being pushed around out there. Our water is wonderful, and exceeds all standards, yet we have softener, and filter salesman come out and tell people the water is awful! Many years ago, before the EPA, the Dept. of Health told us we have one of the best waters in the state. 250 foot deep wells. We chlorinate as minimally as possible. Our mains are concrete-lined. No lead service lines. No lead solder in the system.
There you go. That’s what I’m saying. I just retired from 30+ years in the municipal water racket and I did everything from field grunt to top management. The amount of bullshit that gets thrown around as ‘fact’ is ridiculous.
As far as I know, the last people to use lead pipes were the Romans. I’ve never in my life even seen a lead pipe let alone installed one. The last leaded joints in water systems were probably installed in the early 60’s. After that, all rubber.
The idea that asbestos cement pipes are some sort of health hazard is beyond stupid. Water-borne asbestos fibers are no health risk whatsoever.
The science and engineering are solid, the field materials proven beyond question, the disinfection regimes the best in the world.
yep... good post.. “there is a sucker born every minute” (PT Barnum.)
>>>Get a reverse osmosis system for home, that’s what we have. We have a little spicket at the kitchen sync and that’s the only water we drink.
You’re making your own “bottled” water... because they do the same thing you’re doing with the stuff in the bottles. A few suppliers then put back a few of the minerals the reverse osmosis takes out “for taste”.
Most bottled water is not reverse osmosis. Besides, much of it sits around in hot warehouses leaching the chemicals from the plastic into the water. Have you ever really looked into bottled water, I don’t think so, much of it is just tap water, maybe run through a very lame filtering system once. Creating reverse osmosis water takes a lot of time, and much of the water is discarded in the process.
Bob,
The Cleveland water system used to use lead service lines. I’ve worked on some of them. Thing is, they were so “mineraled” up on the inside, that it was no longer possible for any lead to leach into the water. You’d cut one open, and it was like lookin’ at a marble with a hole in the center! Do you play a Tele, by any chance? My license plates read Tele1.
That is amazing information. I stand corrected. I’ve worked on piping going all the way back to the early 1900’s and never saw any lead. I’ve seen redwood but never lead.
Sounds like calcium likes lead - the one saving grace. That must be some old, old pipe you worked on.
Yep, the Fender Telecaster - the first and still the best. I’ve owned many over the years and still have three.
I’d say these suburbs of Cleveland were mostly built in the late Forties to Early Fifties. Little bungalows, on tiny lots. Detached garages.
Best guitar ever! I have four, including one that’s been converted to a squareneck lapsteel. Yup! Teles and Shobuds for me!
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