tap water versus bottle water

[Cultcha]

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Tap water is OK if you are in a white neighborhood. In a black neighborhood I would drink on the side of caution. Who knows what kind of chemical testing experiments are being done.

[queenb]

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It depends on the type of plastic that the bottle is made of.

Chemicals CAN leach into bottled water from the bottles.

[R_C]

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Published on Thursday, March 4, 2004 by Reuters

Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water
by Trevor Datson

LONDON - It made for great headlines, but the fact that the UK version of Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water comes out of the London public supply should hardly have come as a surprise.

"Coke's in hot water," "Eau dear" and "The real sting" were three good examples of the newspaper headline writer's art, but the only real difference between Dasani and many other bottled waters is that the humble origin of the product is firmly in the spotlight.

Figures from independent beverage research company Canadean show that at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the world are, like Dasani, "purified" waters, rather than "source" waters which originate from a spring.

Most of the supermarket own-label bottled waters consist of treated mains water. They may be dechlorinated, filtered further, purified using ultraviolet light and have minerals either added or subtracted. They may also be carbonated.

In short, they are subjected to many of the same treatments that source waters undergo to satisfy public health requirements after being pumped up from the ground.

But generally speaking, anything that doesn't say "source" or "spring" on the label is just fancy tap water.

So why all the brouhaha over Dasani, a fairly typical product in a rapidly expanding market? The origin of UK Dasani (it's produced all around the world but is always purified rather than source water) came to light when a complaint was made to the British Food Standards Agency over Coke's use of the word "pure" in its Dasani marketing.

In the developing world you usually buy bottled water because it's clean, or because it doesn't taste of chlorine. In the west, it's a "lifestyle choice". Most consumers in developed countries would accept that the water that comes out of their taps is clean enough and quite serviceable for cooking, washing or even drinking.

© Copyright 2004 Reuters Ltd

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cultcha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tap water is OK if you are in a white neighborhood. In a black neighborhood I would drink on the side of caution. Who knows what kind of chemical testing experiments are being done. </div></div>

yeh an what if yuh buy bottled water in a grocery store in a blk neighborhood as well? We've seen where some grocery chains move outdated meat from the yt area to the stores in the blk area before.

[Emperah]

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The best ting anyone can use is distilled water. Your tap water even the best of has fluoride in it, which is not good for us.

[twiney]

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Your tap plus a good filter is better than bottled water ... that being said mi still nah drink florida water.

[Peasie]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Transfer to Health forum </span>

[jah_yout]

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it's more than just a health issue...

those plastic bottles are ruining the oceans, hence the earth

[Ja. Jewel]

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There's so much chlorine in my tap wata in Jamaica that I cannot use it to make coffee in my coffee makers....eventually it deposits so much residue that they are useless!...it's from the chlorine. The best wata IMHO is direct from the source spring water, because it is highly oxigenated plus has minerals, but, even though I'm on a search for a free source of it in Jamaica, I have not as yet succeeded.

I guess the next best thing would be spring wata ( not from the source) or tap water with a good wata purifier....anyone have any suggestions, cause I REALLY want to be drinking some good wata cause mi drink nuff!!

[jah_yout]

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memories- like the corners of my mind...

i remember yout days living in portmore &amp; water company shut off the scheme...
walking miles to get river water &amp; cutting a few canes on the way back..
little did i know i was drinking the best water a human can drink...
water nourished from the sun &amp; rocks enriched with minerals...
i bet pollution reach nuff fresh water sources already...

humanity has to get serious about halting the global pollution...

[sistacaf]

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dahjah

i drink distilled too; (unless i'm somewhere where i can get uncontaminated fresh water from a natural spring, river or some such). homeopath doc tole me it pulls out contamination from the body, especially heavy metals. no idea if that is really true but it sure tastes good, much better than either pipe or spring water. is way too much chlorine in the tap water around here anyhow, so i avoid it

[britisha]

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food for thought on distilled water