Why buy bottled water........premium or otherwise?

[scotgal]

Just thought I would ask???

[Lakitu]

Ethel's gonna give you into trouble! LOL

I don't think it makes a difference for us up here as our water is lovely anyway, but South of the wall the water isn't that great out of a tap......so I'm led to believe anyway.

[scotgal]

I know that hun I was just trying to wind that blatant advertiser up ( see previous thread). Seriously, I will only drink our own water out of a tap and even as a child spending holidays with maiden aunts in Fittie I wouldn't drink the tap water...........preferring instead fizzy pop which they were only too happy to supply!!!

[daniela31]

The water out of the tap here is good too. (Herefordshire). but when I go on Holiday to Devon, the change of water makes me ill, so I always buy bottled to put in my kettle.

[joggerjayne]

Mains tap water is subject to much more stringent testing, and more regulations, than bottled water.

Producers can stick almost anything in a bottle and sell it.

But ... as it said in the Guardian a few weeks ago ... bottles of water have become the comfort dummies of insecure adults. Psychologically, they make you feel better because buying bottled water makes you feel:

(a) healthy, and
(b) affluent.

In reality, all it makes you is:

(c) gullible.

However ... different water in different areas, will have different mineral constituents, and it might take your body some time to adjust to the different minerals.

So, as in Dani's case, it is quite common for locals to drink tap water, while visitors drink bottled water.

[DebbieR]

There is absolutely no reason to drink bottled water. As Jayne says, tap water is stringenly tested at least 3times a day - whilst bottled water need only be tested 3 times a year. So there could be anything in there. Plus, it's more expensive than petrol litre by litre!!

[MGraham]

To answer that question I would ask 'Why drink freshly squeezed Orange juice, when there is concentrate?' Or 'why use fresh veg when you can buy frozen?'

The answer is that whilst bottled water is checked less, it has been filtered through rock and clay for thousands of years and is bottled as soon as it comes out of the ground. It has never met contamination, and crucially has never been through the human body before it is drank by the drinker.

Tap water, whilst looking similar, is devoid of the minerals and purity contained in mineral and spring waters.

Most relevant however is that, due to the fact Tap water has to be heavily chemically cleaned due to its origin (sewers etc..) the drinker is subject to the setbacks when a new type of sbstance is found - such as the traces of birth control, cancer treatment and anti depressant drugs - which cannot be removed by standard chemicals.

So the question should be: what is cleaner - water from a mountain spring, or water chemically altered after 18 recycles through the digestive system?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/test s-for-drugs-in-tap

I hope this helped

[MGraham]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/test s-for-drugs-in-tap

Apologies, here is the link again.

[Doc.Spock.1]

We have spring water which feeds an open well.


Sheep pee in it.


Bottles for us, Asda 15pence.

[Doc.Spock.1]

Not really mcgraham,

think of all the excrement in natural spring water.

Wildlife has to crap somewhere.

[MGraham]

Spring water does not feed an open well, that is called well water which is not classed as Spring Water or Natural Mineral Water.

If Asda were to do such a thing, which is highly doubtful, they would be breaking both Food standards and European food standards.

More to the point, however would sleep climb this well and pee in it?

I suspect you are telling porky pies in order to make your incorrect point, Doc.

[scotgal]

Sorry McGraham ,whoever you are, but I lost the will to live reading your reply but Doc, in my childhood, when we were out playing all day we drank from many a well and we're still here. We also pinched turnips from fields and only gave them a cursory wipe (usually on sleeve) before consuming. Oh ,and we picked tatties and at break time had our mug of tea and jeely piece with our hands never seeing a drop of soap and water.............and we're still here! Ah, those were the days, eh?

[MGraham]

You are confused Doc. Natural Spring Water comes from underground. So if a bird did decide to soil on the surface, there is appox. 5000-1500 years before that soil reached the water having gone through the mud, clay, rock, sand, tufa etc...

I suspect after so long, the damages would have been removed.

However, as you are a Doctor, Spock, I imagine you wouldnt be so naive as to overlook this minor detail.

[barryj23]

Who gives a monkeys if water has been through a humans body?? Oxygen has too and we're not all going round holding our breath. And those vegetables your eating - chances are they contain some carbon from a human...

[MGraham]

Perfect point scotgal. I am a retired university lecturer. I tried to explain the point clearly to explain how there is indeed a difference between Tap water and Natural Mineral Water that is bottled.

Basically, whilst they may look the same they are not actually the same thing.

[MGraham]

Sorry Barry. Humans breathe in Oxygen and breathe out CO2, so oxygen has never been through a human.

Moreover, unless an animal physically dug up and went to the toilet ON your unwashed veg (turnips are grown underground) then chances are the turnip wasnt soiled.

[scotgal]

You're obviously not Dr Hugh Pennington though or you'd have the hygiene police round my door before you could say e.coli. In my defence I would tell m'lud that all this occurred over 50 years ago and there must be a statute of limitation or somethin.

[barryj23]

MGraham you didn't pay attention in your science GCSE lessons did you! Humans don't just breath in oxygen and out carbon dioxide - air is made up of a composition of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and many other gases. The amount ot carbon dioxide that comes out in our breath is only significatly smaller than what goes in, and vice versa for oxygen. Every living thing on the planet is mostly made of carbon - this carbon is then recycled - a dead body will decompose, this carbon will be transferred to the soil, which is then transferred to plants. Feel dirty?

[Ethel]

Oh booo

I thought I could have a good rant.

Can I sue scotgal for chronic disappointment?

[B00]

I look at this pure and simply- I pay water rates, so I'll be damned if I'm going to also pay again to drink the stuff from a shop!

[scotgal]

I'm so sorry Ethel if you thought this was a serious question but that clot was on again advetising his premium bottled water but daniela and I reported him so he's gone now which leaves this thread on it's own. Feel free to rant though...........................get it off your chest hun! You know you'll feel better for it.