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Water study
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30ashopper
SoWal Insider
Bottled water is most definitely not a solution - especially since many "bottled" waters are filled at a municipal tap!
And every gallon of bottled water takes 3 gallons of water to produce! Not to mention oil, transport, garbage etc. Our landfills are overflowing with those GD plastic water bottles!
What if you recycle the container?
Camellia
Beach Fanatic
Plastic water bottles contain a very small percentage of recycable material. Again, I would encourage you to check out the movie website of Tapped. According to the documentary, these plastic bottles are a major contributer to the Texas sized garbage masses floating in the oceans. Their degraded particles outnumber plankton in water samples.
beachmouse
Beach Fanatic
We filter at the tap for drinking water at home, but do like to buy bottled for the work fridge or when we're on the road. (filling a reusable water bottle just doesn't seem to work as well for us outside the house) If you have to buy bottled, both Zephyrhills spring water and Publix's house spring water bottle from Florida springs.
Chip and Dale
Beach Lover
The above statement is absolutely false.
Chip and Dale
Beach Lover
Bottled water is most definitely not a solution - especially since many "bottled" waters are filled at a municipal tap!
And every gallon of bottled water takes 3 gallons of water to produce! Not to mention oil, transport, garbage etc.
FYI... If it's labeled "spring water", it is water from a real spring. If it's from a spring but brought to the surface via a pipe, it will be labeled "artesian water." If it's from a municipal source, it will say so on the label. These are federally regulated terms.
In fact, bottled water companies are regulated as a public supplies not only under the federal safe drinking water act (EPA), but also under all the food and drug regulations (FDA) as well as all the state and local regs that apply. Even New York City has it's own licensing procedure.
So, if a brand ships nationally (or even across a state line), your bottled water is regulated and tested at least as much and almost always much more than your municipality. For national brands, it's quite extreme and redundant, but that's the cost of doing business. In addition, most bottled water plants go through self-imposed NSF inspections--more rigorous than the fed, state and local governments could ever muster.
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Beauty hunter
Beach Fanatic
I wonder what it is that should actually be in water
H2O-2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen
I have no conception of that
Actually, to me, it seems rather amazing
Any scientists out there?
H2O-2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen
I have no conception of that
Actually, to me, it seems rather amazing
Any scientists out there?
Camellia
Beach Fanatic
My understanding is that bottled water rarely crosses state lines, which is how it escapes rigorous testing. However, I admit, my only source of info is from having watched a documentary about bottled water and its myriad negative implications for our bodies and the environment. I would welcome access to the information you have about bottled water regulation and testing so I could read more about it. Please post some links. Thanks.
30A Skunkape
Skunky
Hydrogen bonding, we couldn't have life without it. I don't think there is another substance with greater density in the liquid state than solid state, at least none that I can readily think of.
30ashopper
SoWal Insider
Water is special stuff, and if it weren't so special, we wouldn't be here. Take for example the fact that it expands when frozen, very unique property. If it didn't do that, lakes would freeze solid during cold weather, killing off all life. Oceans would freeze during ice ages, ending life on the planet.