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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Tap water. Until it comes out of the faucet in a brown gooey sludge, there is no way in hell that I'm going to pay for bottled water, that I'm 99.9% positive came out of someone else's tap. Biggest marketing coup in history.
Speaking of 99.9%...my parents had thier water supply tested by the State of Pennsylvania several years back. The state wanted to test it as thier water comes from a well sunk into an underground mountain spring that was located by an old man with a dousing rod (true story). They tested it on three seperate occasions, and came up with the same 99.9% pure every time. And it's cold. And, I do mean cold. Growing up, it was quite normal for me to see the faucets frost over when you left the cold water running. Instant ice water from the tap. I was spoiled.
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Same thing happened with the spring that I fill my bottles from. The province claimed the water wasn't safe for drinking because there were no controls on it... animals could die in it, or pollute it in other ways (I'll leave that to your imagination). Yet every year we have it tested, and it comes back perfect every time... no organics, just enough minerals to provide good taste, 0 grains of hardness. Absolutely great water, but because they don't control it, the government wants people not to use it. They had a program of capping springs, believe it or not, until the public outcry stopped it.