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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004This water sucks
Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! Mike > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > > Mike Water filters can help quite a bit. I reuse water bottles with the sports tops, and fill them up at home. Saves money. But you have to wash the bottle every day! Seriously! I mean it.  SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. I have my dog and cat spoiled and they won't drink tap water anymore either! When ever they here the water cooler go "glug-glug" they come runnin'. Personally, I can't remember the last time I drank tap water - too many chemicals! > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > > Mike > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! We have a reverse osmosis filter on our fridge, for all our drinking, cooking, and ice needs. Compared to that, bottled water sucks. I save bottled water money by filling tap water into gallon jugs and refrigerating them. I have 5 gallons that I rotate. At any given day I am drinking water that had been in the refrigerator for about a week. I find that the taste is good, even though water straight from the tap tastes icky. Why? I'm not sure, but I suspect that gasses, like chlorine, leave the water during the week in the refrigerator. I save many dollars.... > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > > Mike > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > > Mike I find just the opposite. I have never liked bottled water. It seems to have some kind of extra unpleasant taste to it. I will actively seek out tap water, rather than drink bottled water. It seems kind of ridiculous to me to pay for something that comes freely out of my tap. To each his/her own, though, I guess. SignatureJim Marnott 231/194/194 (Hit goal on 22 Nov '03 -- exactly 6 months later) Atkins since 22 May '03 Gym since 1 sept '03 > It seems kind of ridiculous to me to pay for something that comes > freely out of my tap. More accurately, something that comes freely out of someone else's tap. Bottled water is just someone else's tap water - it's not processed or anything. Try buying a bottle of distilled water (look in the pharmacy section) and compare your water to that. Distilled water should have no taste whatsoever. Distilled water tastes terrible. It tastes like rain water. The reason distilled water and rain water taste bad is because neither have any minerals in it. I get the gallons of spring water at Wal-Mart. It is really good like water from a good well. >>It seems kind of ridiculous to me to pay for something that comes >>freely out of my tap. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > and compare your water to that. Distilled water should have no taste > whatsoever. > Distilled water tastes terrible. It tastes like rain water. The reason > distilled water and rain water taste bad is because neither have any > minerals in it. Lack of minerals won't make it taste bad. Minerals add taste, which you get used to. The lack of taste makes the water seem "empty" or devoid of taste, which most people interpret as "tastes bad". But chemically, pure water should trigger no taste buds or olfactory senses at all. Doesn't mean people will like it though ;-) Oh, and rain often has lots of interesting things in it. After all, it's filtering the dust out of the atmosphere. It may not have any taste but it still tastes terrible. >>Distilled water tastes terrible. It tastes like rain water. The reason >>distilled water and rain water taste bad is because neither have any [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Oh, and rain often has lots of interesting things in it. After all, > it's filtering the dust out of the atmosphere. >Distilled water tastes terrible. It tastes like rain water. The reason >distilled water and rain water taste bad is because neither have any >minerals in it. I get the gallons of spring water at Wal-Mart. It is >really good like water from a good well. YMMV I like distilled best. It tastes sweet to me. Yvonne > >Distilled water tastes terrible. It tastes like rain water. The reason > >distilled water and rain water taste bad is because neither have any [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > YMMV > I like distilled best. It tastes sweet to me. I like distilled, too. Spring water tastes bland to me. I don't DO tap water. SignatureSaffire 205/174/125 - 5'2.5" Atkins since 6/14/03 Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333 > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! heh. i'm spoiled. i work for a company that manufactures water purification equipment. i have great water to drink all day long while i'm at work! I bought a couple of whole house water filters and put under my sink and then ran a line from that to my fridge which has another expensive filter. So I got triple filtered water that tastes fine. Tap water has fluoride which you need. PJ . >Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. >Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to >start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > >Mike > Tap water has fluoride which you need. > > PJ This is totally false. You do not need fluoride. In fact, it is a poison. It is good for teeth if you have a problem. I don't drink that crap and have not had a cavity for over 20 years. Curt >Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. >Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to >start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > >Mike We have great tap water here in Hamilton Ontario in the winter. Clear and icy cold right from the tap with absolutely no taste or smell. Tapwater here in the warmer weather is *another* story. I have been actually put off from drinking it by the smell alone. It is a mixture of chlorine and algae. Absolutely gross so I swittch to bottled water then for the most part. unless it smells okay. In the summer I am always doing the sniff test. Depends on where you live. Here in Detroit we have wonderful tap water. In news:dbc800dmqkqp309vf5fsqtvqdhj410bpq3@4ax.com, Mike <weightloss99a@yahoo.com> stated | Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. | Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to | start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! | | Mike > Depends on where you live. Here in Detroit we have wonderful tap water. Really! It must have really improved since the late 50s and 60s when I visited my grandparents. It was just awful! SignatureJean B. Well, I didn't move here until 1979. I'm not sure when they built the present system. In news:4005F35E.8E1BCBE1@rcn.com, Jean B. <jbxyz@rcn.com> stated || Depends on where you live. Here in Detroit we have wonderful tap || water. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] | -- | Jean B. > Well, I didn't move here until 1979. I'm not sure when they built the > present system. I wonder if it is/was the same throughout the city? (My grandparents loved on Ashton Rd.) Anyway, we had to bring Fizzies (ugh) and other things to try to cover up the taste. Ugh. You know it must have been pretty bad if I am remembering it from decades ago!!!! SignatureJean B. Well, now the Detroit system supplies water to most of the suburbs as well as the city so maybe it was a later development. Here's a summary of the history: http://www.dwsd.org/history/water_brief.htm Here's a few paragraphs from the end. The last major technological change came in 1961, when the coal-powered, steam-fed, highlift pumps at Water Works Park were electrified. The Southwest Water Treatment Plant became operational in 1964. It increased Detroit's total system capacity to more than one billion gallons per day. Construction was controlled by the Wayne County Road Commission, after which the plant was transferred to the Department in April through a lease-purchase agreement. In 1966, the BOWC acted on its long-held ambition of establishing a new water intake in Lake Huron. The Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant began pumping water in 1974, increasing system capacity to more than 1.5 billion gallons per day. To deal with the increasing demands of a growing population, the plant was designed with expansion in mind. Currently, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department pumps an average of 675 million gallons per day to more than four million people in 126 communities within its service area. Due to DWSD's pioneering efforts and progressive thinking, citizens of southeastern Michigan will continue to enjoy an economical, abundant supply of the highest quality drinking water in the nation. In news:4006692D.12BD4159@rcn.com, Jean B. <jbxyz@rcn.com> stated || Well, I didn't move here until 1979. I'm not sure when they built || the present system. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] | -- | Jean B. > Well, now the Detroit system supplies water to most of the suburbs as well > as the city so maybe it was a later development. Here's a summary of the [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > southeastern Michigan will continue to enjoy an economical, abundant supply > of the highest quality drinking water in the nation. Well, I'll certainly have to check that out if I ever get there again--and there is genealogical work I could do there. Thanks! SignatureJean B. > Anyone else who drinks bottled water try drinking from the tap again. > Wow I didn't realize how bad tap water tastes. I'm going to have to > start bringing some bottled water to work because This Water Sucks! > > Mike My tap water tastes better than any bottled water I've ever had. Of course, my tap comes directly from my well, which comes directly from the aquifer some 700 ft. below the surface. Love our water at home - like drinking out of a mountain stream (without the giardia and other nasty micro organism risk). In fact, just down the street from us is a spring that someone has installed a pipe. People park there and fill up their gallon containers with MY WATER!!! The nerve! :). Lee |
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