I still buy bottled water for when we're on the road (don't always eat in restaurants) and out boating. You've never tasted out tap water here. One thing I don't understand is how the tap water in St. Louis can taste so good, yet on the east side of the river where I live you have to filter it to stand the taste. I've found that the cheapest bottle water tastes the best. The most expensive ones often have a chemical taste.
Jeez -- sorry -- stupid thing posted itself when I was trying to edit a sentence. I wanted to say to Rodd if drawing repetive objects doesn't bother you, then next time you want to annoy the monkeys you could draw shelves of all different canned good and see whether they distinguish among the peas, tuna, and Clamato. Sorry about typos -- I use a teeeny weeny netbook with a keyboard suitable for a rhesus monkey -- which may also explain some posts I'm sure I didn't make!
Guy -- I don't want my water to be smarter than me. What if it doesn't let me drink it? And Rodd - I was tghinking about poor YOU having to DRAW all those bottles. If thatext time you want to annoy tghe monkeys you do
This is actually true and has been in the press several times - people just don't want to hear it. Tap water *is* purified water, so it's perfectly legal to call your bottled tap water "purified." A simple charcoal filter at home will remove the tastes and smells that you dislike from your tap water, and of course you can get a higher end filter if you prefer. A few facts about bottled water from the Sierra Club:
-In the U.S., more than 30 BILLION plastic water bottles end up as garbage or litter
each year.
-It takes 900,000 TONS of plastic to produce all those bottles
-Most don’t get recycled.
-The bottles take up to 1,000 years to decompose
-The withdrawal of large !$%*!$%*!$ of water from
springs and aquifers for bottling has depleted
household wells in rural areas, damaged wetlands,
and degraded lakes.
-It takes 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water.
And again - tap water is far more regulated than bottled water and has been shown many times to be cleaner and SAFER. Not only is there a risk of contaminants in the water itself, but (quoted from the Sierra Club brochure):
In 2000, Consumer Reports found that “eight of
the ten 5-gallon jugs we checked left residues of
the endocrine disrupter, bisphenol A, in the
water.” An expert panel of scientists has concluded
that exposure to extremely low doses of
bisphenol A is strongly linked to diseases such as
breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes, and
to reproductive and neurological development.
There's more...but who really needs more?
Actually Dasani has said it is just purified water. There is one other, maybe it is Evian. I keep it for my earthquake supplies but other than that who cares
