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Re: Bottled Water

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Post by teilo »

What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling.

What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but medicating the entire population is just stupid. There is no way to monitor dosage.

Re: Bottled Water

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Post by jimbobimbo »

Here's another fact about bottled water: it tastes the way water should taste without having to drain a few gallons of tap water. There could be a million reasons why the water in my kitchen tap smells unless drained for a while, but I'll rather go and buy a bucket of Poland Springs to get my tea and coffee right.

Re: Bottled Water

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Post by kscaldef »

jimbobimbo wrote: post #4

Here's another fact about bottled water: it tastes the way water should taste without having to drain a few gallons of tap water. There could be a million reasons why the water in my kitchen tap smells unless drained for a while, but I'll rather go and buy a bucket of Poland Springs to get my tea and coffee right.

Maybe you should consider a plumber. Or at least a Brita filter.

Re: Bottled Water

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Post by tedkimble »

teilo wrote: post #2

What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling. What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but…

Thankfully my municipality does allow me to monitor dosage:

http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/water/about/WaterQuality.htm

For 2009, the highest fluoride levels were 2.06 mg/L and the median level was 0.77 mg/L. So there's at least one data point.

Re: Bottled Water

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Post by sosuke »

teilo wrote: post #2

What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling. What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but…

I have family that doesn't live in a large or even a medium sized town, their water tastes terrible, you put a filter on it (PUR, Brita) and it still tastes bad. They almost have to buy bottled water for drinking. Not everyone lives in a city with good water treatment facilities.

That alone is reason for them to buy bottled water but I'll add your fluoride facts to my conversations in the future.

Re: Bottled Water

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Post by evgen »

teilo wrote: post #2

What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling. What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but…

Anything is poisonous/toxic given the right conditions and dosage. Under the right conditions I can kill you using pure O2. The only thing that is "stupid" is clinging to silly good chemical/bad chemical dichotomies without taking context and dosage into consideration.

Low-dosage flouride in a water supply has been shown over and over again in epidemiological studies to reduce the incidence of oral cavities from 15-40%. There have been no reputable studies to show that there are dangers to this low dose.

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