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Very interesting Cynthia
Unfortunately around here, the infrastructure is old and inadequate and no money supposedly to improve it. Our tap water often looks rusty and always tastes bad. Many have installed expensive filtering systems, us included and that does make a big difference. If I'm out and about and thirsty however, I buy bottled water. Maybe I'll go for juice now instead. It is appalling how many countries lack this most basic necessity. Look forward to reading more.
posted by
Katray2
on August 11, 2005 at 7:54 AM
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MayB, I would have liked to
have seen their faces if you had mentioned that fact to them...
posted by
Cynthia
on August 7, 2005 at 12:40 PM
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Cynthia, I was sitting in a talk yesterday where two environmental writers were speaking and I looked around at all the plastic bottles everyone carried. Mine contained filtered tap water.
I don't see the point in buying still water unless there is no choice but I still like to have sparkling mineral water with lemon. That's because I often have that instead of wine particularly during the day
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:35 AM
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Whacky, We just started to do that too...
posted by
Cynthia
on August 7, 2005 at 8:02 AM
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Isisye, love your blogging
nom de plume. Thanks for the comment.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 7, 2005 at 8:02 AM
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Maj, If I lived in your part of the country
I'd probably stick to the bottled water.
Thanks for the advice on the shallow wells...I'll mention it to the folks who are running this program.
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Cynthia
on August 7, 2005 at 7:58 AM
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betty, so did I...
posted by
Cynthia
on August 7, 2005 at 7:55 AM
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I sometimes buy bottled water then
rinse the bottle and refill it to take in the car. On hot days I take a frozen bottle of water and enjoy it as it melts.
posted by
Whacky
on August 7, 2005 at 12:22 AM
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Cynthia,
This was a good read, and eye-opening. I might do the same, although generally I just use tap water and filter it through a Brita.
Have you ever seen the documentary "The Corporation"? Interesting stuff in there about water, too.
posted by
myrrhage_
on August 6, 2005 at 8:54 PM
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And remember Perrier vintage (sic) 1990...eau de benzine.
posted by
majroj
on August 6, 2005 at 8:49 PM
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Our water company let us know about a colliform "spike"..five months later.
You can smell chlorine, sometimes, and coming from the edge of the California Delta, it has molybdinum, which imparts a flavor all its opwn and is not entirely removed by Britta filters...although they do remove most chlorine, so the water then has no bacteriostatic properties and needs to be drunk up.
I used to love the flavor of the fluoridated battled water. Wonder why it doesn't taste as good anymore?
Hey, when you talk to these shallow wellers, remind them that maintenance and the ability to drill down to ever deeper aquifers is almost as important as getting that life-saving stuff up right now, and much more expensive. If they dig the wells, then build around these wells, without a means of expanding and deepening them, the resulting communities become traps in a couple decades' time.
posted by
majroj
on August 6, 2005 at 8:46 PM
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Wow
I always assumed bottled was safer and better.
posted by
bettyboop1967
on August 6, 2005 at 10:32 AM
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