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Sheriff Roland:
Do you buy it? or do you use tap water - at home & in restaurants?

Here in Toronto (& in a some other municipalities in Ontario) it is no longer sold on city property.

I've always drunk the tap stuff myself ... bought my first case this past Christmas for the 12 hour trip up to Timmins. There's still 20 full bottles in the cool room downstairs.

Sheriff Roland:
The Story of EAU

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Story/1414398/story.html

In Canada, where our water is relatively healthy, especially in urban areas, almost 30 per cent of us turn to the bottle as our primary source of water, according to Statistics Canada.

Katie77:
Very interesting article.

Something that was not mentioned, that I have read in various news items, is the fact that if any plastic bottle of water or other drink, is left somewhere in the heat, like in the car, the heat causes a chemical reaction in the plastic which actually seeps unsafe toxins into the contents of the bottle.

When you think about those bottles of water maybe sitting on a truck in the sun before they reach the store, and then maybe sitting in your car in the shopping bag, or if you only drink half, and the other half sits in the bottle in the heat of your car, somewhere along the line there is a chance that these toxins could be in the drink.

For that reason alone, I do not drink water or any other drink from plastic bottles.

injest:

--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on March 22, 2009, 05:34:42 am ---Do you buy it? or do you use tap water - at home & in restaurants?

Here in Toronto (& in a some other municipalities in Ontario) it is no longer sold on city property.

I've always drunk the tap stuff myself ... bought my first case this past Christmas for the 12 hour trip up to Timmins. There's still 20 full bottles in the cool room downstairs.

--- End quote ---

I think buying it for trips is a good thing, well for me, because if water has a 'different' taste I wont drink it. So bottled water helps me not drink too much 'flavored' stuff when we travel. But at home I drink out of the tap, we keep a pitcher of water in the fridge.

I would drink that water, Roland, those toxins will leach out over time even if they are NOT heated...and dont' reuse the bottles.

I know that some places are trying to ban bottle water because of the waste and litter.

Remember when people could walk two blocks without having some drink surgically attached to their hand?

 :P

RouxB:
Santa Barbara CA has some of the worst tap water in the "civilized  ::)" world. And I like it-it tastes like dirt and dirty socks.
I buy bottled water for car trips and then refill the bottle with sock water.

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