What bottled water is best for consumtion
What bottled water is best for consumtion
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Hi
Sorry for such a base question I am about to ask.
Actually this does not involve work but my own personal life. But the info I gain I could take back to work with me.
I wish to know what is good water to drink. Out of bottles.
Is distilled the best for human consumption
Is reverse osmosis the best for human consumption
Is spring water the best for human consuption?
Thanks
Sorry for such a base question I am about to ask.
Actually this does not involve work but my own personal life. But the info I gain I could take back to work with me.
I wish to know what is good water to drink. Out of bottles.
Is distilled the best for human consumption
Is reverse osmosis the best for human consumption
Is spring water the best for human consuption?
Thanks





RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
Water out of the faucet is just fine for drinking. Cities spend millions of dollars every year ensuring so and proving it to the EPA.
RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
Gary Schreiber, CWS VI
The Purolite Co.
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You might just fill up some reclaimed plastic bottles with water from your home tap. A lot of that water originates from "springs". In most locales in the USA it's as clean as any water you'll get from buying a bottle off the shelf. What's most important, despite the apparent expense in treating it, tapwater is cheaper than bottled, too, fivefold.
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RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
DMcGrath
I am in Ontario Canada and read that there are tests for over a hundered things in municipal source but in bottles water there are only 3 things checked for by the Food and Drug administration.
I get my water from Water Depot where they take municipal water and run it thru RO an thier filters and UV so I get a feeling of security.
Not long a go in a nearby town (Walkerton Ontario) a bunch of people died from bad town water
Then I have a person tell me that there should be minerals in the drinking water and that RO takes out the minerals and the water leeched out my body minerals.
Hard to know what to believe.
Thanks for the comments
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You can consume water as long as it meets the WHO specifications of potable water. There are about 150 parameters but we check about 10 parameters, in industry. The recent issue of fatality in US, as I read in news papers, was due to E-Coli.
Some of the main parameters (but not limited to
Anything that is naturally pure is better. Second comes RO water because it is economic to produce.
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S. Bush
www.water-eg.com
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Here are the regulations and model codes for bottled water.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/botwatr.html
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Remember that your immune system actually benefits from being stressed occassionally. You will build up a natural immunity if you expose yourself.
I travel extensively throughout SE Asia and I drink tap water. My family and friends drink from bottles. I usually suffer less from gastric problems than they do!
If you do live that extra week from spending a mountain of money on Coke or Pepsi bottled water, who cares? If you spent the money on having a good time you would be streets a head. Get a life.
Geoffrey D Stone FIMechE C.Eng;FIEAust CP Eng
www.waterhammer.bigblog.com.au
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Many codes and standards apply to various tests. I am not aware of the mandatory testing reguluations. I have three different gallon bottles of spring water in the kitchen right now. They list the source. Some of the springs are in Texas where I reside. One spring is in Arkansas. The latter likely places it in interstate commerce.
In the US, tap water is very safe. This is not so true internationally. I doubt that tap water is a health problem in Canada.
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Over 3 million people annually die from avoidable water-related diseases. Dirty water from unsanitary conditions is the leading cause of death of children in Asia, and globally claims the life of one child every 30 seconds.
The most important thing insofar as bottled water goes is that the water has been properly disinfected, packaged, adn sealed. It is not going to make much difference whether the water is distilled, been through a reverse osmosis process, or came from a spring.
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S. Bush
www.water-eg.com
RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
RE: What bottled water is best for consumtion
S. Bush
www.water-eg.com
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Your statement is correct, if tooth enamel is exposed to a continuous rinse with distilled water over a period of years. In this application, however, distilled water is only contacting enamel for a matter of seconds before being replaced with saliva.
S. Bush
www.water-eg.com
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http://www.aquaprix.com/LowTDS.pdf
It was interesting for me to note that only distilled water is consumed by personnel on U. S. Naval submarines. The Navy has studied this and feels it is safe.
There are many other interesting facts, as well.
S. Bush
www.water-eg.com
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I've been to Deer Park (TX) which is in the middle of refinery row. I ain't drinkin' Nothin' there!
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-I don't trust TAP water. EPA regulations are designed to allow the treatment we currently have and slowly add tighter regulations, otherwise many municipal water systems would be shutdown, especially in rural areas. Many rural water have some pretty nasty water that can give you cancer and passes current EPA standards.
-Reverse Osmosis does not make pure water. Small non polar molecules can pass through.
-Distillation does not make pure water. Substances with similar boiling points to water will not be removed.
-I try and drink bottled water. If you read the bottle, it tells you how it is processed. Microfiltration does not remove and dissolved materials, just solids. Carbon filtration removes organic contaminants, reverse osmosis removes all ions, and ozonation oxidizes everything. I like RO water with added minerals the best. I think it tastes good.
-Some municipal systems have very good quality water and some don't. Probably the best thing to do is get your water from a variety of sources. This way you won't be continuously exposing yourself to water with contaminants that build up in your body over time. Pretty much all municipal and bottled water is pretty safe from bacteria and virus.