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Message 1272541 - Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 13:16:14 UTC

We had the Coca-cola company selling a brand name of water, Daisani I think it was? For about $1.00/half liter. They finally released its contents: tap water. No filter, no declorination, just plain tap water from whatever was handy.

I have a filter on my tap, although it certainly will not help against distillates pcb or most other chemical contamination. And this lovely city has a policy of when a well falls below standards, they pump enough water into it from their other wells to bring it to LEGAL levels. They decided it was much cheaper than drilling a new well.


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Message 1272598 - Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 16:33:57 UTC

Desperate to boost margins, I suppose?
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Message 1272819 - Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 5:51:08 UTC

Texas Tap water is from local lakes. It's not necessarily bad when the lakes are full. However, the last 2 years have seen lake levels drop and a distinct foul taste that is best described and the bottom of the lake.


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Message 1272836 - Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 6:23:42 UTC
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Here in Oz, bottled water is around 50cents/litre dearer than petrol ($2.00/L +). More if you buy a "trendy" brand.

As not to attract the ire of the pedantic I will not attribute this quote to PT Barnum, but, there definitely is "one born every minute".

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Message 1272876 - Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 9:30:49 UTC - in response to Message 1272836.  
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New York had the best Tap water ever. It is piped down from the Catskill mountains 125 miles from the city. It had a distinct, sweet taste. This might have come from the lead pipes used in the 1800's. It came out cold and tasty.

Now I triple filter my water here in Tennessee and it tastes just fine. First I use a water softener which has a rosin core. Next I use the Insinkerator cold water tap from my hot/cold water tea maker. The Insinkerator has a large canister filter as well. This goes into a Pur water pitcher which also has a charcoal filter. Sometimes I use my Sodastream carbonator to make soda water to give the taste of fancy bottled waters.

When I owned a farm with my brothers we had a cistern to gather rain water . It had 350 lbs of charcoal to filter the water as well.
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Message 1273309 - Posted: 20 Aug 2012, 14:36:45 UTC - in response to Message 1273085.  
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One of the biggest problems that we have in London is with "Hard" water, which furrs up pipes and appliances. There are various magnetic devices that you can buy and attach to incoming water pipes, but with various degrees of success.



I would imagine that magnets are about as successful at combating hard water as homeopathy is at combating malaria.

Magnets and their (mis)use.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1273381 - Posted: 20 Aug 2012, 17:09:33 UTC - in response to Message 1273316.  

heh, I grew up out in what used to be the country in Michigan. We had well water and it was very hard. Were talking turn your whites orange hard. Drinking it took some getting used to but for washing clothes we always added Water softners to keep everything from having an orange tinge


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Message 1274013 - Posted: 22 Aug 2012, 16:49:49 UTC - in response to Message 1273434.  

Of course we did. We had a partyline telephone in the house and didn't have a C'Ment swimin' hole.


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