WATER, water everywhere but not a drop to drink!. . .Bottled water source revealed. . .

[Don Kiyoti]

[quote M A V I C]I've been in a couple hundred cities in the past month.
Wow! Really? That's something like six different cities every day.

[M A V I C]

[quote IronMac][quote M A V I C]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?
Do you drink bottled water at home then?
No. I drink tap or filtered tap water when I'm home. I read the water reports here. I know what my plumbing is like and where the water comes from. When I'm in a town 200 miles from nowhere and its not even on the map, and the only things around are copper mines, I drink bottled water.

[quote M A V I C]
Are you trying to say that municpal water causes cancer? Why aren't you then insisting that your local authorities increase water taxes as a health issue?
I'm saying, in some cases water - even in municipalities - is not safe to drink. Just because one's in a city, as noted above, doesn't mean the water supply is from the city or that it's safe.

[quote Don Kiyoti][quote M A V I C]I've been in a couple hundred cities in the past month.
Wow! Really? That's something like six different cities every day.
Yep. 6000+ miles and 10 states.

[davester]

[quote M A V I C]I was at one place where I was advised not to drink the tap water. It was okay to shower in, but that's it. The reason being that the water supply came from a cistern that had no quality checks and hadn't been looked at in over a year. The contents largely came from rain water off the roof of the building.

I was at another place where the water upstream was considered so high risk, that swimming wasn't even allowed. So the taps that were fed by the same water were also off-limits.

I've been to hotels where I found out certain parts of the building had plumbing problems which contaminated the tap water.

Sure if you go to a medium or large city, the supply the send out is probably okay. But just because the original supply is safe doesn't mean what comes out of the tap is. You can be in a city and not be getting city water.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're throwing out oddball ad hoc examples of local water sources (i.e. the very kinds of things that get bottled and sold on the shelves), not municipal water supplies. The sources you're talking about could not be legally hooked up to a municipal domestic water system. Nothing you've mentioned has anything to do with the quality of munipal water supplies, which are heavily regulated and monitored for quality. As far as the "certain parts of the building" issue, that seems pretty unlikely...how do you contaminate a pressurized water system in part of a building...and with what? Anyway, the same issue applies to water bottling plants...as has been well documented, many of them have records of introducing contaminants into the water.

[M A V I C]

[quote davester]I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're throwing out oddball ad hoc examples of local water sources (i.e. the very kinds of things that get bottled and sold on the shelves), not municipal water supplies.
The discussion is about tap water, and not limited to only municipal water supplies. The debate has been on tap water vs. bottle water and since a lot of bottled water is purified tap water, if the use of bottled water is warranted. All the examples I'm citing are examples of where I believe the use of bottled water is warranted. And, yes, I have read there reports on the brands of bottled water I buy.

The sources you're talking about could not be legally hooked up to a municipal domestic water system.

True, but just because it's not legal doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Again, the discussion is on tap water quality. Just because the local water tests fine at the source, doesn't mean it's okay when it comes out of the tap.

Nothing you've mentioned has anything to do with the quality of munipal water supplies, which are heavily regulated and monitored for quality.

And as noted by this threads subject, initial post and my other posts, I'm talking mainly about tap water. You're picking a small subset of a water source on this planet. I'm talking about what comes out of the tap.

As far as the "certain parts of the building" issue, that seems pretty unlikely...how do you contaminate a pressurized water system in part of a building...and with what?

Unlikely, sure. But it happens. I don't recall the exact specifics. Something like there had been construction years before and the plumbers messed something up. There was another instance at another hotel where a water main was cracked. The first couple days it didn't smell too good, but then the water started coming out a bit brown.

Anyway, the same issue applies to water bottling plants...as has been well documented, many of them have records of introducing contaminants into the water.

True, but I can control which brands I buy and I have looked at which ones have the best track records.

[norse]

What's up with everyone having a bottle of water glued to their hands all the time? When I was growing up, I wasn't sipping water all the time. When I was thirsty, I went to the faucet or drinking fountain for water.

[IronMac]

[quote norse]What's up with everyone having a bottle of water glued to their hands all the time? When I was growing up, I wasn't sipping water all the time. When I was thirsty, I went to the faucet or drinking fountain for water.
I know, I can't recall ever drinking water except at a local water fountain (which I can't recall anywhere in the neighbourhood aside from the library) and at home.

It's this "got to stay hydrated" craze.

I did a 140 mile or so bike trip three weeks ago with a friend who insisted on staying hydrated. I've done this trip before and didn't drink that much then. In the end, we both ended up feeling pretty "logey", sort of very full yet empty. I think we could have cut back just a tad...heheheh.