Stop drinking water from the tap!

originally posted by: DeathSlayer

If you MUST drink tap water please consider boiling it for 10 minutes. Also think about those old water pipes in your home. One swallow of bad water can be life or death especially for children.

Despite what some people here will claim, you are absolutely correct about this point. The quality and age of piping has a large impact on the quality of the water and what is leaching into your water supply. I've lived in two or three houses which would spit out dirt brown tap water every so often. I think that had more to do with bad piping rather than old pipes though. The point is there are many places along the pipe line where problems can arise, and that's before we even get to the issue of all the extra chemicals they put into tap water.

I grew up on tap water but after being on bottled water and tank rain water for several years I could never go back. You develop a more sensitive taste for good quality water and realize just how pathetically bad tap water is. Even the best tap water is usually not great due to the chlorine. There is a massive difference between bottled water and tap water, bottled water is rigorously tested for quality and every drop is properly filtered and sterilized with UV light or other methods that don't require mixing in huge amounts of chemicals like chlorine.

It's also possible to check if the water you're buying contains added fluoride, because the only fluoride you should be ingesting is in the small amount of toothpaste you accidentally swallow while brushing your teeth. And in many nations, a product labeled as bottled spring water also cannot just be water from a tap, it has to be collected from a natural source and/or contain a certain fraction of minerals that are found in spring water. Like you said, tap water is a game of trust, and it's a game I'm not willing to play.

Yes using a plastic bottle once and throwing it away is highly inefficient and wasteful, that's why I get the large 10 litre containers. It's still not a great solution but it's good enough for now, the plastic gets recycled anyway. I do plan to try a tap water filter at some point and see if that works well enough. In my opinion bottled water isn't the true problem, the true con is how society has been led to believe that raising their kids on tap water is perfectly safe and anyone who thinks otherwise must be an idiot.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: DeathSlayer

They should make everyone drink hose water that has been sufficiently warmed by the summer sun.

That happened all to often as a kid.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I am unaware of a single case of COVID-19 being transmitted by tap water! Anywhere on this entire PLANET!

Oddly enough, your chances from getting COVID-19 from bottled water are probably substantially higher.

This is probably true actually, due to the bottles being held and carried during transportation, etc.

Our city water is sanitized with chloromines. I don't drink from the tap. I have a 2 gallon stainless Big Berkey in the garage, equipped with 2 British Berkshire silver impregnated carbon filters. It also has 2 chemical/hormone/drug filters below those. It leaves the calcium in it, but takes everything out, and the water tastes great. I don't want water out of plastic.

It was a great investment, and has saved me lots of money. I highly recommend this unit to you all.

Our off grid cabin property has a 270' deep well at 5000' elevation, and pumps pristine, wonderful tasting water. We power it with a generator

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Or better yet, get a big berkey candlestick filter, 2 buckets and a spigot.

Bottled water - really? If this virus is surviving the water treatment plants, we've got a far, far bigger problem than we think.

Told ya all... The Covid is EVERYWHERE!!!

its in the water... it grows in trees...

Its even Online!!!

Beware... Be scared!!

Full Hazmat suits from here on in people!!!

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I am unaware of a single case of COVID-19 being transmitted by tap water! Anywhere on this entire PLANET!

Oddly enough, your chances from getting COVID-19 from bottled water are probably substantially higher.

I was going to mention that, bottled water is not chlorinated, spring water could support the virus better than chlorinated and fluoridated water could.

a reply to: DeathSlayer

The city dropped Brita water jugs and 4 filters off to about Quarter of the people In my city.
Turns out our pipes are lead.
And rather than replace them, the city bought everyone water filters...idiots.

I still drink the tap water, I just unscrewed the screen cap on the faucet, let it run for about 30 seconds, the guzzle back.

a reply to: visitedbythem

Geez...you were lucky to hit water at that depth being up at that altitude.
I'm up in the mountains and wells are very deep.
I lucked out and have city water across my front lawn.
It'll almost bleach your face off your face though.

originally posted by: rickymouse

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I am unaware of a single case of COVID-19 being transmitted by tap water! Anywhere on this entire PLANET!

Oddly enough, your chances from getting COVID-19 from bottled water are probably substantially higher.

I was going to mention that, bottled water is not chlorinated, spring water could support the virus better than chlorinated and fluoridated water could.

Very true, butt what you left out was both waters were safe, then someone sneezed on the outside of the bottles.

originally posted by: Mandroid7
a reply to: visitedbythem

Geez...you were lucky to hit water at that depth being up at that altitude.
I'm up in the mountains and wells are very deep.
I lucked out and have city water across my front lawn.
It'll almost bleach your face off your face though.

We think we are on a spring. There is a surface spring just down the road. Pristine water

originally posted by: DeathSlayer


My family and I have been drinking and cooking with bottled water since the 90's and I wish I would have started much sooner. My daughter is disabled due to sewer water getting into the drinking water and you be surprised how often this happens.


P.S. Corporations around the world are buying underground water and privatizing it.

DS

You don't think bottled water comes from the Tap - as you say.

Cheaper, better for your health and the environmnet - buy a damn water filter.

originally posted by: visitedbythem

originally posted by: Mandroid7
a reply to: visitedbythem

Geez...you were lucky to hit water at that depth being up at that altitude.
I'm up in the mountains and wells are very deep.
I lucked out and have city water across my front lawn.
It'll almost bleach your face off your face though.

We think we are on a spring. There is a surface spring just down the road. Pristine water

Our well water comes up to four feet of the surface from seventy feet down. The well driller said we were in an underground river. It appears it is the one that fuels multiple springs coming out down by the swamp down on the other side of the road by the ponds. We have good water and if the power goes out for a long time, I can pull apart the pipes in the basement and it will fill a tank and from there I can just use a valve for water. I have an old stainless steel oil hot water heater we took out to use if I need to.

Hmm... I've been drinking water from my tap directly for almost 10 years now, I guess I should get it tested but nothing bad has happened yet. The water goes down a pipe following a path down the mountain in my back yard to fill my raised water tank. It tastes much better than bottled water, and it's free!

I feel back for those old people in historic times that had no option for bottled water though, and no taps!

a reply to: Mandroid7
I've been drinking it better than 40 years and It hasn't killed me yet.