Bottled water

sweepyhead

sweepyhead

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Who drinks bottled water? I never do, the tap works for me. This is an interesting article that tells about the industry, and the tactics used to get you to spend a lot on an almost-free resource.

I also brew my own iced tea from tea bags, and make my own soda with a soda maker I won.
 
I've got no choice since our well water is contaminated with more strains of bacteria than another list has happy campers, 10 times the allowable amount of salt, twice the state limit for lead...there is no way the bottled stuff could be worse than what is coming out of our tap, even if it came directly from the plant worker's bladders :laughing: We can't even brush our teeth with the tap water. We tried an inline UV light to kill the bacteria, but the silt clogged it up in no time. :error:
 
I buy bottled water for the kids. Its the only way they will drink water. :scratch: Something about the little bottles I guess. I dont drink it or use it in my coffee or tea.
 
Like Red we have to use bottled water as well. My water softener is older than our house and although we use the best salt our water still has too much sulfur in it and tastes like it smells...like sh%$!
The softener repairs would cost more than the unit so we are waiting to buy a new one when we get school taxes paid.

I miss the clean smell and taste of tap water.
 
:sunny: We have some bottled water for emergencies, but our own tap water tastes as good as the bottled.
 
I drink the tap water here...they built a brand new water treatment plant here and they say we have some of the cleanest tap water in the USA!
 
We drink the tap water but, when we are out we do buy bottled water once in awhile. I use to purchase it all the time but, the water gets expensive!
 
People are catching on that it's a waste o'money. The bottles consume a lot petroleum as well. Frankly, I'm amazed that the bottling companies are able to sell it, which is like selling snow to Eskimos.

Any problems you're having with your water can be filtered out using a tap filter.
 
Any problems you're having with your water can be filtered out using a tap filter
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We've discussed getting one of these. I wasn't sure they would work well with well water and I was afraid they'd be constantly clogged due to sediment and other contaminents. You have a particular brand/kind in mind? I'd appreciate it!
 
sweepyhead said:
Any problems you're having with your water can be filtered out using a tap filter.
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I wish that would work :cry: Tap filters are useless against the high levels of salt, lead, bacteria and arsenic in our water. Carbon filters will make water taste good, but serious contamination is another matter entirely. The only thing that would work for our water is reverse osmosis. It would cost us a several thousand dollars for a reverse osmosis set up which would product about seven gallons a day.
Here is a link which discusses the different options
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/he419.html
We spent over $500 for a professional consult after we dug the new well last year and hit sea water intrusion (previous well failed due to drought) :cry:

here is how that works:

Saltwater intrusion is a process that occurs in virtually all coastal aquifers, where they are in hydraulic continuity with seawater.

It consists in salt water (from the sea) flowing inland in freshwater aquifers. This behaviour is caused by the fact that sea water has a higher density (which is because it carries more solutes) than freshwater. This higher density has the effect that the pressure beneath a column of saltwater is larger than that beneath a column of the same height of freshwater. If these columns were connected at the bottom, then the pressure difference would trigger a flow from the saltwater column to the freshwater column.

The flow of saltwater inland is limited to coastal areas. Inland the freshwater column gets higher and the pressure at the bottom also gets higher. This compensates for the higher density of the saltwater column. Where this happens, saltwater intrusion stops.

The higher water levels inland have another effect: they trigger flow of freshwater seaward. This completes the picture: at the sea-land boundary, at the high part of the aquifer freshwater flows out and in the lower part, saltwater flows in. The saltwater intrusion forms a wedge.

Pumping of fresh water from an aquifer reduces the water pressure and intensifies the effect, drawing salt water into new areas. When freshwater levels drop, saltwater intrusion can proceed inland, reaching the pumped well. Then saltwater, unfit for drinking or irrigation, is produced by the pump. To prevent this, more and more countries adopt extensive monitoring schemes and numerical models to assess how much water can be pumped without causing such effects.
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We use bottled water as it's safer than drinking water out radiation-contaminated Long Island ground. Thank God we're getting out of this hotbed.
 
Just wanted to add that if I lived anywhere where I could drink something other than the city of Southport's offshore sewerage backflowing into my well, I would never drink bottled water. The city water I've drunk in New York, Arizona, Oregon, Canada, Texas etc. has all been great. Now the water out in Coahuila was a BIG mistake.... :pottytrain:
 
We buy distilled water by the gallon. I have goten used to it and now I don't like the taste of anything else.
 
We had a well in VA at the farm. Loved that water. I just moved to CA and the water here is horrible. Been buying cases of Fuji. Not bad but I miss my well :cry:
 
I always drank tap water, but for some reason, the water in my current house's tap grosses me out. My hubby drinks it and my kids, but it tastes acidic to me, I won't drink it. My hubby has even tried tricking me by giving me tap ice water and thinking I wouldn't notice, but I take a sip and I know, yuck :scratch: You are right about CA water being gross!!!!!!!!! CA is so polluted, our water must be too.
 
gorgor said:
We had a well in VA at the farm. Loved that water. I just moved to CA and the water here is horrible. Been buying cases of Fuji. Not bad but I miss my well :cry:
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Ick. So, you mean you like authentic well water? Or do you mean you like well water after it has been processed with salt via a water softener?
 
completelyme said:
gorgor said:
We had a well in VA at the farm. Loved that water. I just moved to CA and the water here is horrible. Been buying cases of Fuji. Not bad but I miss my well :cry:
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Ick. So, you mean you like authentic well water? Or do you mean you like well water after it has been processed with salt via a water softener?
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THe well we have is really deep. When my parents were still alive, the first well went dry. They had to dig another xxx thousand feet down. The water is wonderful. It is filtered but the filtering system is some kind of charcoal system that they put in many years ago. I miss it terribly. Water out here is horrible..

then again, everything is better in VA except not being able to marry.. :laughing:
 
THe well we have is really deep. When my parents were still alive, the first well went dry. They had to dig another xxx thousand feet down. The water is wonderful. It is filtered but the filtering system is some kind of charcoal system that they put in many years ago. I miss it terribly. Water out here is horrible..

then again, everything is better in VA except not being able to marry.. :laughing:
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When our first well went dry we had to have the excavators dig another one as well. I wish we had known about the charcoal filtering system then for I would have spent the extra money to have it installed. I have a charcoal filter on my coffee maker and I have the best tasting coffee ever! I can only imagine how great your water tastes.
 
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