I Knew It!
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I think what is more disturbing is how long its finally taken you to work that one out!
A sample of water taken from taps within Birmingham's original 1950's Bullring Market was found to taste better than some of the leading French bottled consumer brands.
Go put that in your glass and drink it!
edit; Took me a little time to find a link, but the original proof came from breakfast TV. But here is a Timesonline article;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/sathnam_sanghera/article4459429.ece
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Reminds me of this one:
'Well its from the Thames, you can't get more ancient and natural than that!' -
@tfdesign said:
I think what is more disturbing is how long its finally taken you to work that one out!
lol. I have had my doubts for some time now - I haven't bought bottled water in over a decade.
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Last time I drank bottled water was at Heathrow Airport in September. There is just simply no drinking water at the whole AP. The bastards. I spent a bunch of Pounds there and then when I checked in, they did not allow my bottle in so I had to buy some new there (I was damn thirsty and had to stay there long hours in transit).
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We have a water cooler in our house - the kind that a company delivers big bottles for once every other week - because our local water is absolutely horrible. I think the bottled water company somehow pays our local water agency to poison our water so we are forced to use bottled water.
We're in a HUGE agricultureal region, and I think our water is direct runoff fromt he farmers fields....it is really that bad.
But seriously, those little bottles of water, they don't have to be from an actual "spring" to be called spring water. Most of them are just filtered local water and then they add minerals to them to give them a little bit of taste.
Chris
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Then there was this scam .....
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@unknownuser said:
@tfdesign said:
I think what is more disturbing is how long its finally taken you to work that one out!
lol. I have had my doubts for some time now - I haven't bought bottled water in over a decade.
Don't get me wrong, I still buy bottled water now and then- in certain situations, there is no choice. And of course you can't get sparkling water on tap (that would be funny wouldn't it?), I do have a soft spot for sparkling water!
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Ugh, we have fluoride in our faucet water, I use a 'Brita' filtration system for drinking water, but do buy bottled water when I am out and get thirsty, unless I'm at the pub then it's all beer.
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You were told correctly, we can drink the whole day and still feel sober (wife will disagree) probably a lot better for you than our tap water.
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@solo said:
probably a lot better for you than our tap water.
As it was in the Middle Ages in Britain
@unknownuser said:
a standard ration of beer for monks and nuns during the Middle Ages was one gallon per day
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The new York segment was a bit unfair because the water here tastes good.
They should do the same thing in florida. -
I thought that you could only get orange juice or sea water on tap in Florida?
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Jeff I agree, it does taste good in NYC.
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@tfdesign said:
I thought that you could only get orange juice or sea water on tap in Florida?
nah.. lots of swamp water too.. and the water sort of tastes how the swamps smell.
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@unknownuser said:
@tfdesign said:
I thought that you could only get orange juice or sea water on tap in Florida?
nah.. lots of swamp water too.. and the water sort of tastes how the swamps smell.
I've had bottled mineral water in Germany that tasted like eggs!! It's actually very nice!!
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That's hydrogen sulphide . Very healthy though (but not drinking - in dense amounts, it can be poisonous).
We have a thermal spa based on such water (here is a website but that fat director seems to think he is more important to be featured than the info itself - and the English version of Wikipedia does not say much either). It is nice to bathe in it (but drinking?)
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