07-28-2007, 03:59 PM
[quote IronMac]A lot of people here talk about taste and variance in quality but let's get serious. How many people, over the past few decades, have actually died from drinking poor water? C'mon, not everyone drinks bottled water, there must be a lot more people who do not drink bottled and they're not dropping like flies are they?
Just poor excuses to spend money on something that, in the end, harms the environment. If you're so concerned about the quality of your local water supply, go to your municipal government and demand that they hike taxes in order to improve the water supply.
I've been in a couple hundred cities in the past month. Do you really expect me to go to each that had poor water quality and ask that they hike it?
I doubt very many people have died directly as a cause of poor water quality in the US, but there have been many problems that are caused by it. When I was in elementary school, the well was polluted from having the septic system above the well, and from being right next to a cement plant. No one died drinking the water, but some of the problems that could occur within five years included various forms of cancer, sterility, birth defects... The well had been contaminated for years before they tested it. I didn't like the taste or smell of the water, so I wouldn't drink it.
Also take into account the rate of problems like cancer is increasing. We need to stay as healthy as we can, and drinking clean water is one way to do that.
Just poor excuses to spend money on something that, in the end, harms the environment. If you're so concerned about the quality of your local water supply, go to your municipal government and demand that they hike taxes in order to improve the water supply.
I've been in a couple hundred cities in the past month. Do you really expect me to go to each that had poor water quality and ask that they hike it?
I doubt very many people have died directly as a cause of poor water quality in the US, but there have been many problems that are caused by it. When I was in elementary school, the well was polluted from having the septic system above the well, and from being right next to a cement plant. No one died drinking the water, but some of the problems that could occur within five years included various forms of cancer, sterility, birth defects... The well had been contaminated for years before they tested it. I didn't like the taste or smell of the water, so I wouldn't drink it.
Also take into account the rate of problems like cancer is increasing. We need to stay as healthy as we can, and drinking clean water is one way to do that.