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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 07/09/2009 : 15:05:09
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While I am a little peeved at taking away people's rights, I can certainly understand the reasoning behind this Australian town's ban on bottled water. Everything I've heard indicates that it's no better than tap water (often it's just tap water put in a bottle anyway) but costs many times more than gasoline. It needs to be transported which causes pollution, and the bottles themselves need to be manufactured. Then they have to be cleaned up, and in my own personal observations of the world around me bottled water drinkers are just about the worst litterbugs on the planet.
Genuine mineral water from springs is okay with me, but this mania for something that you can bottle yourself is quite foolish IMHO.
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2009 : 16:43:50 [Permalink]
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I live in FL, and the amount of chlorine/chloramine added to the drinking water supply is noticable when I drink tap water.
If you pay attention to what the bottled water you buy says on the label you can avoid getting bottled tap water. Coke/Pepsi sell their water (prepared via reverse osmosis and carbon filtering, same water they use to make Coke/Pepsi).
If I weren't so lazy I guess I could install a filter system on my sink and get water that doesn't taste like a swimming pool.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2009 : 18:32:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
I live in FL, and the amount of chlorine/chloramine added to the drinking water supply is noticable when I drink tap water.
If you pay attention to what the bottled water you buy says on the label you can avoid getting bottled tap water. Coke/Pepsi sell their water (prepared via reverse osmosis and carbon filtering, same water they use to make Coke/Pepsi).
If I weren't so lazy I guess I could install a filter system on my sink and get water that doesn't taste like a swimming pool. |
The building I lived in in Baltimore was sort of old, and the tap water always tasted funny-- something I blamed on older pipes. Or just Baltimore. So I got one of those pitchers with a filter and used that. I was pretty happy with that, even if those refills are ridiculously expensive. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2009 : 18:49:07 [Permalink]
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I could probably just get a couple of filters, one for sediment and one for chlorine, and run the tap water through them. Wouldn't be that hard to do and the filters are inexpensive.
This is inexpensive.
So are the filters.
Shouldn't be too hard to rig that up to a kitchen sink.
Just have to overcome my apathy.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 08:47:44 [Permalink]
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| The water at my office runs a little copper/brown in color and STINKS. We attached a filter to it and that works great. Unfortunately we go through the filters about 4-5X faster than normal. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Another overdue idea
