Same.ELITE-UK wrote:
Tap water where i live is almost perfect IMO, i dont buy bottled water unless im on some sort of trip.
charcoal filters are pretty ineffective at removing anything thats actually unhealthy. mostly they just pull out stuff that makes the water taste bad. no idea what they do with flux though.trex1210 wrote:
As a plumber myself I well tell you 1 good reason why BOTTLED wated is most likely better to drink than TAP water. Tap water come straight from pipes, most likely copper pipes. When a plumber puts the pips together with solder they do 2 things. 1:clean pipe with sand cloth 2:apply and ACID paste called flux. Now you may think so what it well get washed through eventually. HELL NO! flux is very high in acid and it does not leave the pipe! Try this, on the end of the faucet unscrew where the water comes out. There should be a grate type thing block all the shit from going through but it doesnt block everything.Bert10099 wrote:
What is so great about it? I ask you bottled water enthusiasts, how is it better than tap water?
Now, I'm not talking about the convenience of the bottle, and carrying it around. I'm talking about the water itself. Some people refuse to drink tap water.
I remember this conversation I had with a co-worker. She asked if we had any bottled water. I told her no. She then told me, "Well, I don't want to drink this toilet water." What? Toilet water? I asked her what she meant. She said that she didn't want the tap water, since it could have gone to a toilet. Well, tough shit for you lady, tap water is tap water, whether it goes to your toilet, to your shower, or to your faucet and into your body. It's still clean, healthy, and is no better or worse than bottled water.
Bottled water is a waste of money, and I always lol when I see some idiot throwing away $50 on tons of gallon jugs of expensive "purified, reverse osmosis cleansed, added minerals for taste" bullshit water.
Tap water FTW.
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7933/wateruw3.jpg
Anyway my point is that tap water has alot of small nasty shit that doesnt get filtered out and bottled water does get filtered with charcol type filter I believe. So if you get a brita water filter or some other brand then just use that for tap water. Thats my reason why I prefer bottled water over tap water.
dude we live off that in my school lolRoc18 wrote:
I actually think the bottle is an incentive to buy bottled water. And does anyone else take the eco friendly shaped bottles and turn them into rockets by twisting it?
When it comes to water supply, I am quite happy to live in a country where they have strikt regulations for even the littlest things.KILLSWITCH wrote:
Every other country I've been to bar Germany has water that tastes like shit straight from the tap,
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There is most likely a law requiring an experation date on every food-like stuff.irishtop wrote:
i have many shitloads of crates of bottled water, and bought them for when a hurricane shows up. i think the dumbest thing i have ever seen on a bottle is an experation date and it read : Jan 14 3021. fail.
Bingo.Sydney wrote:
tastes like shit.
Jesus what brand was that?irishtop wrote:
i have many shitloads of crates of bottled water, and bought them for when a hurricane shows up. i think the dumbest thing i have ever seen on a bottle is an experation date and it read : Jan 14 3021. fail.
Surely the point of the flux is as a cleaning agent and it will react with any oxidised metal in the pipes giving a final product of water and salt - which aren't too bad - and that's for older flux compounds. More modern flux compounds are non-acidic, non-toxic and free of all these nasty things.trex1210 wrote:
As a plumber myself I well tell you 1 good reason why BOTTLED wated is most likely better to drink than TAP water. Tap water come straight from pipes, most likely copper pipes. When a plumber puts the pips together with solder they do 2 things. 1:clean pipe with sand cloth 2:apply and ACID paste called flux. Now you may think so what it well get washed through eventually. HELL NO! flux is very high in acid and it does not leave the pipe! Try this, on the end of the faucet unscrew where the water comes out. There should be a grate type thing block all the shit from going through but it doesnt block everything.Bert10099 wrote:
What is so great about it? I ask you bottled water enthusiasts, how is it better than tap water?
Now, I'm not talking about the convenience of the bottle, and carrying it around. I'm talking about the water itself. Some people refuse to drink tap water.
I remember this conversation I had with a co-worker. She asked if we had any bottled water. I told her no. She then told me, "Well, I don't want to drink this toilet water." What? Toilet water? I asked her what she meant. She said that she didn't want the tap water, since it could have gone to a toilet. Well, tough shit for you lady, tap water is tap water, whether it goes to your toilet, to your shower, or to your faucet and into your body. It's still clean, healthy, and is no better or worse than bottled water.
Bottled water is a waste of money, and I always lol when I see some idiot throwing away $50 on tons of gallon jugs of expensive "purified, reverse osmosis cleansed, added minerals for taste" bullshit water.
Tap water FTW.
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7933/wateruw3.jpg
Anyway my point is that tap water has alot of small nasty shit that doesnt get filtered out and bottled water does get filtered with charcol type filter I believe. So if you get a brita water filter or some other brand then just use that for tap water. Thats my reason why I prefer bottled water over tap water.
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where do you live?DoctaStrangelove wrote:
I fill up old bottles with tap-water.
Cheaper and cleaner!*
*My town has like the cleanest tap water ever. srsly, you can drank the water from the source without any filtration and even safely eat the fish that live in the source without needing to cook them.
its what I doDoctaStrangelove wrote:
I fill up old bottles with tap-water.
He is from the US, we both live in the EU - so I am not surprised.rh27 wrote:
Jesus what brand was that?irishtop wrote:
i have many shitloads of crates of bottled water, and bought them for when a hurricane shows up. i think the dumbest thing i have ever seen on a bottle is an experation date and it read : Jan 14 3021. fail.
Both Evian and Volvic have expiration dates that end within 2-3 years, always.
