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Old 07-28-2007, 03:46 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
I drink bottled because I don't like the hint of chlorine/flouride in Calgary's municipal water, which, oddly enough, seems more intense when the water is very cold as opposed to when it comes out of the tap. I used to refill my bottles and refrigerate them, but I stopped due to that more noticable chemical undertaste.

I drink Aquafina quite a bit (I like Evian too, but the extra expense doesn't seem justified), and I already knew they used tap water to make it; however, since it is PROCESSED after that, I really don't see what difference that makes. It's not like they are pouring it straight out of the tap into the bottles; I think labelling the bottles as "sourced from municipal water supplies" is less accurate than what is on the bottle right now in front of me, "Demineralized Treated Water".

PS - Aquafina still has a flouride content of .3 ppm, which is about a third of the Calgary water supplies 1 ppm content. So if you're looking for non-flouridated water, spring water is what you want, although if you look on this page http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=521352 you will see that spring water may also contain flouride, which can occur naturally. Reverse osmosis is unable to remove all flouride ions due to their size; there is a nifty chart at http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/infocenter.htm that shows you common contaminants that are filtered out by different filtration processes.
I could give you a taste test, 10 different 'brands' and tap water. You would not be able to figure out which is tap.

So accept you sillyness and stop wasting your money on bottled water.
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