I have to disagree. In New Orleans I ran a few chemical tests on filtered and unfiltered tap water from 4 of the 5 major water districts in the area. One was an artesian well based system and the rest "purified" Mississippi River water.
The three Mississippi River sources showed elevated levels of transition metals (selenium, arsenic, etc.), even after filtering through a brand new, state of 1990 water filter system. The artesian system showed high levels of sulphur, iron and contained very low levels of benzene and an unidentified hydrocarbon (GC signature was too poor to identify). I provided the results to the water districts and changes had allegedly been made. However, I only drink bottled water when the tap water source is the Mississippi or the Biloxi aquifer. > -----Original Message----- > >Makes sense to me: bottled water is HUGELY more expensive that tap water. A >decent filtering water cooler costs about $600 and filters last about 3 >years: it doesn't taste any different than bottled and with the use you >might expect in an office situation it'll pay for itself very quickly. > >To me it sounds like a great idea to save some money (perhaps a lot of >money) without causing any real change in service. > >We switched from a home bubbler (5 gallon bottles delivered) to a tap water >filter/cooler about four years ago and have never looked back. It's much >cheaper in the long run and there's no extra monthly bill, no delivery >hassle and no storage of bottles needed. > >> Mmmmm municipal water... I wonder if they will change the "Earthquake >> Preparedness Guides" which are distributed to Cali residents >> instructing them to save several days of bottled water in case of >> earthquake and rotate them every 6 to 12 months? > >The rotation is exactly why it's easier to bottle tap water for emergency >preparedness - you can buy empty jugs from most home stores. > >I'm pretty sure the ban is for "prepackaged water" not "water in bottles"... >I'd guess you could still put water in bottles. ;^) > >Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237287 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
