bottled water...

Originally Posted by towny

Credit to Coca Cola for thinking up this scheme, and then having the sheer brass neck to go ahead with it. If the great British public are daft enough to fall for it, then frankly Coke deserve to make a packet exploiting them. It just shows the persuasive power of marketing.

They are being investigated for by the Food Standards Agency for misleading labelling of the product, so it's not entirely stupidity to blame in this instance.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by towny

To be honest the whole bottled water phenomenon confuses me, I never understood what was wrong with using a tap.

I usually filter my water because I don't want the chlorine and fluoride that is put into tap water. On a positive note, we have some of the best tap water in the world (imo) as we can drink it straight from the tap without getting Delhi Belly....something you can't do even in places like Italy!

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by towny

Credit to Coca Cola for thinking up this scheme, and then having the sheer brass neck to go ahead with it. If the great British public are daft enough to fall for it, then frankly Coke deserve to make a packet exploiting them. It just shows the persuasive power of marketing.

To be honest the whole bottled water phenomenon confuses me, I never understood what was wrong with using a tap.

Amazes me that they are allowed to do it in Kent where there are water shortage problems every year now. WOuld it not be better to draw it from a central london spring where the water table is rising or from up north where there is generally more water around?

[iadom]

Originally Posted by danielf

I don't particularly like tap water. It's ok when cold, but when I bring a bottle of tap water into work, I find it has a nasty taste at room temperature. So I drink mineral water (not just bottled water, but mineral water)

Edit: Just read Iananuth's post. Guess who supplies our water

Our tap water is excellent and at the moment it is so cold that it gives you a headache if you drink it to quick.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by towny

To be honest the whole bottled water phenomenon confuses me, I never understood what was wrong with using a tap.

When I used to go to the gym (don't laugh anyone who knows me), I used to take bottled water. Not out of any attempt to be healthy, just conveniance..

Actually, I think the only real difference between bottled water and tap water is the profit margin, and marketing (I wonder if Isotonically balanced water is actually any better for you than normal water)..

[Jerrek]

We have a filter and softener in our basement for all the water. But we don't drink or cook with it. We buy those 4 gallon jugs and have a water dispenser. Nice, fresh distilled water. Tastes ... bland, but sure is healthy without the extra rocks and stones called "minerals" added to spring water.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Jerrek

We have a filter and softener in our basement for all the water. But we don't drink or cook with it. We buy those 4 gallon jugs and have a water dispenser. Nice, fresh distilled water. Tastes ... bland, but sure is healthy without the extra rocks and stones called "minerals" added to spring water.

So do you filter and soften your water just to wash yourself and flush the toilet?

Originally Posted by scastle

When I used to go to the gym (don't laugh anyone who knows me), I used to take bottled water. Not out of any attempt to be healthy, just conveniance..

Actually, I think the only real difference between bottled water and tap water is the profit margin, and marketing (I wonder if Isotonically balanced water is actually any better for you than normal water)..

Isotonic drinks, like the 'sport' drinks, are good if you have lost fluid due to perspiration, or diarrhoea, as they replace some of the lost minerals & give a glucose boost, as well.

Otherwise there is nothing wrong with normal water

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

those of you who drink dasani, just thought i'd bring this to your attention

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...005189,00.html

ive never had a bottle of it... can anyone tell me if it glows like the only fools and horses water? :pp

I noticed that today's paper described it as being filtered 3 times and then further purified by reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis is used in modern lab systems for producing pure water. These systems have a fair number of stages. Speaking from memory, they would start of with a deioniser to get rid of most of the minerals, then there'd be reverse osmosis to highly purify it then probably something like 'polishing' with activated carbon to get rid of any trace organics left.

So I'd say that the water in the bottle is quite pure. However, I also noticed that they had to put back in all the magnesium, sodium, bicarbonate and sulphate that they'd gone to all the trouble to remove to get some taste back into the insipid brew that they'd taken all the trouble to produce!

If you want tap water that has probably had trace heavy metals and (possibly) trace organics taken out of it, then by all means buy it; but I'll guarantee that you're paying an arm and a leg for something not much better than tap water. Probably better to spend your money on a Brita filter or similar.

Nostalgia time When I was a young lad (come back here, you!), we purified water by distillation or, for the luxury version, double distillation. If your water was like liquid chalk, the elements would fur up completely by the end of the first day.

What's wrong with southern water.I like the stuff we get out of Portsdown Hill.All that calcium must be good for good healthy bones and it adds flavour.

[Atomic22]

i buy my water from asda......18 pence for 1.5 litres
tastes just as nice as evian or perrier......

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Atomic22

i buy my water from asda......18 pence for 1.5 litres
tastes just as nice as evian or perrier......

I'm sure it does. Does it have an analysis on the label? If you take everything out, it tastes pretty, well, untasteful.

Originally Posted by Incognitas

What's wrong with southern water.I like the stuff we get out of Portsdown Hill.All that calcium must be good for good healthy bones and it adds flavour.

we have hard water here too - it comes from an aquifer, when we visit my sister in Scotland, where the water is really soft, I find I don't like to drink it, just doesn't taste 'right'.

[iadom]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

Nostalgia time When I was a young lad (come back here, you!), we purified water by distillation or, for the luxury version, double distillation. If your water was like liquid chalk, the elements would fur up completely by the end of the first day.

Memories eh, when I was young and stupid, (now old and much the same) and at school, I remember being in the Science Room, the teacher was distilling some water. I did not notice the hose from the cold tap running into the equipment, all I could see was a bunsen burner under a glass jar, a few strange glass structures and a strong flow of water coming out of the end of a piece of rubber tube.
I asked the teacher why, if such a small amount of water could be turned into a steady flow, why wasn't this process used in the desert. DOH.

[Dave Stones]

our water here comes from severn trent apparently... nice and free