Bottled Tap Water

[ppb]

Before the Dasani controversy today has anyone else bottled tap water commercially?

[j2buttonsw]

Dasani hardly just sell bottled tap water. According to what I have read, the tap water is filtered, goes through a reverse osmosis process and is then fortified with minerals before being sterilized with ozone.

[Miss Zippy]

Typical example of the media whipping up controversy and getting their facts wrong. Lots of companies sell 'tap water' (as opposed to spring water) which has gone through a highly sophisticated filtration process. Companies such as pureh20 (see pureh20.co.uk) have been selling this kind of 'pure water' for years. The water is expensive because (a) the reverse osmosis filters and cartridges themselves are costly and (b) for every one litre of water the RO process produces, approx 4 litres are wasted (I know this as I have a RO unit at home to produce pure water for my marine aquarium).

[IndieSinger]

Agree with everything said here - the reason it's caused so much "controversy" is because it's the water companies (the ones who supply your home) who are accusing Coca-Cola of making it sound like tap water is unclean. Which... to some extent... is actually true. It's not deadly, but the fact is, this new Dasani is filtered fifteen times. Water from the tap is in no way poisonous, but it's far from pure. Now you could spend a lot of money at home installing various water filters and machinery for the aforementioned reverse osmosis systems, but your water would cost you a damned sight more than 55 pence a bottle.

[incitatus]

i shopuld just point out here that if you drank nothing but "pure" water, which people keep drivelling on about, you would die pretty quickly. There realy isnt muchh difference between dasani and tap water because the "minerals" they put in will be pretty similar to the minerals they took out when they ro'd it. And Im sorry but treating it with ozone seems a little excessive? why are they doing this, exactly? After all that filtration there would be nothing to kill, so the introduction of a corrosive, poisonous gas seems a tad ott.

[archbishop]

Del boy did it but not very successfully.

[incitatus]

and having just done some calcs- we run an 18 megaohm water system here, which is as pure as you can get it. and it costs us 7p a litre to produce. the 4 to 1 figure for litreage is about right. so its 7p plus the price of 5 litres of tap water which comes to about7.5p

[tracymort]

At least the bottled stuff i can drink. The tap water here smells so much of chemicals it makes me feel sick if i try and drink some!

[IndieSinger]

Yeah the fact that Dasani tastes really smooth and lovely is a valid point. Tap water tasted yucky.

[incitatus]

when did we all become such hypochondriac delicate flowers? my granny used to have to wait for the grit from the well to settle before she could make her tea. as far as she was concerned the water board were gods. And i have to say that to me most of the bottled waters (coming as they do in plastic bottles) taste very strongly of polypropylene.

[IndieSinger]

People also died younger in those days.

[incitatus]

my point exactly , i think.

[incitatus]

long life obviously equals far too much time on your hands or possibly borderline obsessive compulsive syndrome.

[ppb]

And in the end - we obsess about 'pure' water and 'clean' environments but we need a little dirt to build up any resistance to any virus that might appear...