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The Truth About Bottled Drinking Water Industry
I have never, until forced to recently, invested in the scam of bottled drinking water. I believed that recycling the water we think we can’t drink, putting it in plastic bottles (more waste), and making us PAY for it, on top of our already paying for water in many cities and townships, is yet another way to fool us out of our hard-earned money. I drank tap water at hundreds of different homes throughout Northern California. In my own homes, I took it straight from the tap, cooked with it, brushed my teeth with it and showered in it, and made Jello and ice cubes with it. And nothing ever happened.
There is a slew of discussions about contaminants in tap water. Okay, so high levels of bacteria are found in a select city, bacteria that slips through the elaborate filtering systems and impacts—in one case, for example—400,000 residents. But there is also the bottled drinking water company that is found to have just bottled tap water after filtering it and then calling it fresh-from-the-mountaintop bottled drinking water. My logic (again, up until two months ago) went something like this:
1) If some bacteria is so microscopically small that it “eludes” filtering systems, that water will still be bad for us…and we are paying for it!
2) If water in municipal systems is supposedly so harmful (or could be at any time), and if residents flock to the stores to buy bottled drinking water, what happens when they shower—and the crap gets in eyes, in pores, and in small increments that would build up, in the mouths of those same people buying bottled drinking water? What about the ice cubes? The teeth brushing? Duh. Of all the people insisting (or trying to insist) that I drink their bottled drinking water instead of getting a glass of ice water from their freezers and taps, none have I seen use the bottled drinking water for cooking, baking, ice cube tray filling, teeth-brushing, or bathing or showering.
3) Isn’t there something to think about the bottled drinking water company that labels its bottled drinking water with a word that spelled backwards (in English and French) reads “naïve”? LOL. Though I must concede, of all of the bottled drinking waters, this one really does taste different, good, almost sweet!
I recently moved into a self-contained trailer, for QUIET, for privacy, and for uninterrupted autonomy. The place the trailer sits on and is hooked up to has a complex water and irrigation system, one that oddly enough is powered by electricity (still) but takes from a well. And there are complex filtering systems and special tank treatments I do monthly and bi-annually. But when you turn on the sink, bathroom sink, or shower faucets, the water gives off a noxious smell—like rotten eggs, which I liken to sewage. And though it is treated, I have been advised against drinking it. In this case, given the olfactory response, I have to succumb to buying bottled drinking water. I get it at the dollar store—for a dollar a gallon. And I am mighty resentful, still.
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