FlyGirl
Houston
A story about this — 2 years ago
Did you know that many of the bottled waters on the market today are simply tap water pulled from some municipality or another? And did you know that, even though many people drink bottled water thinking it is somehow better for them than tap water, that actually tap water might be healthier because municipalities are governed by more and stricter codes concerning the safety of their water than govern the bottled-water companies? I just learned all this recently and found it very amazing.
Also, did you know that if you go to Rome, there are drinking fountains all over the city that put out some of the best and coldest water I have ever had in my life? Yum! I believe it comes from underground springs. It also might come from the Trevi Fountain where all the tourists have washed their feet. But I’d rather not know if it does.
Go to Rome. Drink water. Forget throwing coins; wash your feet in the Trevi Fountain instead. It’s all good.
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Eliot Landrum
Plano
This is certainly mostly true. However, as a controls engineer, I have visited the water bottling facility in Dallas for a very popular water bottler. While one of their brands does come from tap water, the other brand is actually spring water. Both of them are run through a bacteria filtering, but the tap water is actually stripped down to as pure as water as possible (distilled, basically) and then minerals are injected back in for flavor. I would assume that this is quite common for most bottling facilities. The spring water brand, on the other hand, is just cleaned for bacteria and bottled right away; no minerals are injected and the water is not distilled.
Still, going to Rome is a great idea. :)
Eliot Landrum
Plano
This is certainly mostly true. However, as a controls engineer, I have visited the water bottling facility in Dallas for a very popular water bottler. While one of their brands does come from tap water, the other brand is actually spring water. Both of them are run through a bacteria filtering, but the tap water is actually stripped down to as pure as water as possible (distilled, basically) and then minerals are injected back in for flavor. I would assume that this is quite common for most bottling facilities. The spring water brand, on the other hand, is just cleaned for bacteria and bottled right away; no minerals are injected and the water is not distilled.
Still, going to Rome is a great idea. :)
FlyGirl
Houston
Eureka!
A controls engineer, eh? A man who has the INSIDE SCOOP. OK —I know you hate this, but I have a question that is probably going to sound really stupid to someone in the know such as yourself. When I was a child, I noticed the bottles of distilled water at the supermarket and asked my mom about them. She told me that you can’t drink distilled water; it is only for using in electric irons and things like that. Is there any truth whatsoever to this? My grown-up, educated self says, “No”, but still—to this day, I have never tried to drink from one of those bottles of distilled water. (I have, however, drank from the Amazon River – I don’t recommend it -, from faucets in Brazil, Rome, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, etc., and from public drinking fountains all over the world but NOT —no NEVER from a plastic bottle labeled “distilled water” purchased from my local supermarket. Huh…at least the distilled water would probably not give me dysentery such as I got from drinking from the Amazon…)
FlyGirl
Houston
P.S.
I agree—going to Rome IS a great idea. If only I had $ and time enough.