Doesn’t know the difference between silicone and silicon? Seems legit.
(ETA Silicone Valley? Is that where breast implants are grown?)
(ETA 2 This is pretty much textbook post hoc ergo propter hoc in action.)
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Yeah, well I’m so cool that I’m going to break open the glowing tritium “exit” sign that I salvaged from a construction site, and mix it with oxygen to make water, then drink that!
(no, absolutely not going to do that. That F-er was supposed to have met it’s half life expiration date back in the 90’s, but shows no signs of darkening… Maybe I should geiger that thing…)
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OK. I stand corrected. Thank you.
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Add Hanford, Washington.
Seriously that place is leaking. Huge superfund.
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That must be why I always preferred drinking from the upstairs bathroom sink in my parents’ house. For whatever reason, that bathroom had a kitchen style sink, so I’d just bend down and stick my mouth under the faucet to drink, resulting in a fairly acute drinking angle. I always knew it tasted better than the kitchen faucet, which I always used a glass for, because my mom would not have approved of sticking my head in the kitchen sink.
I mean, the fact that the kitchen sink had a filter on it had nothing to do with it, i’m sure.
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And to further confuse things, the silicone rubber parts often contain silica in a fumed or precipitated form…
It’s a horrible indictment of our general culture, let alone our educational system, that woo like this can take in so many people.
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We have multiple springs around town as well. Water coming from under a rock can be perfecly germ-free if it’s coming from a calcium carbone based rock…it’s a natural filter. However, the “spring” also can be seepage from pastures thorugh soil…not so good. I’m glad your town test the springs, that makes all the difference.
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Oh it’s a silly-con alright!
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Dasani starts with tap water, then strips out any and all residual toxic chemicals and stray microorganisms (which many municipal tap-water supplies contain in quantities too low to violate fed/state drinking-water laws).
In doing so, they also strip out all the mineral content, so the purified water is flavored with selected minerals to keep it from tasting ‘flat.’
My own municipal tap water, f’rex, contains higher levels of arsenic, bromate, and tetrachloroethylene than recommended by the “Public Health Goals” (PHGs - the levels below which public-health officials expect no medical effects) , but still within levels allowed by the drinking-water standards.
Mostly, residuals don’t worry me much, but I don’t like arsenic in my drinking water.
The allowed level of arsenic is more than three orders of magnitude(!) above the PHG, because arsenic is a natural contaminant (from watershed and aquifer rocks), and it’s very difficult and costly to remove.
Basically, you’d have to turn the entire water supply into Dasani.
So the arsenic standard is set so high that it can cause frank neurological-development problems, especially in infants and children. (And the Bush EPA tried to hike it up even higher, but was thwarted by an EPA staff rebelllion.)
And while I don’t mind a bit of arsenic while doing laundry or washing up or flushing my toilet or bathing (which is what most water use is), I really don’t want to drink it.
Not even in small amounts.
(‘Small’ as in “three orders of magnitude above the PHG”, which is what we get in our “perfectly safe” tap water.)
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I have to say the more I learn about how the USA works/is run, the happier I am not to live there.
I’m used to living in places where the tap water is perfectly safe to drink even bearing in mind that it’s been filtered through the kidneys of however many million Londoners first.
If it’s not safe to drink, it shouldn’t be coming out of your tap.
The idea that people should buy filtered tap water with added minerals when there is perfectly good water available from their tap or any number of natural mineral waters is either bonkers or a marketer’s stroke of genius.
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I was thinking this is the antihomeopathy. It actually has the stuff in it that’ll kill you, under the guise of a homeopathic water memory type thinking. Ok, let’s just call it poison.
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Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days.
My Little Chickadee (1940)
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But according to tap-water enthusiasts, anti-bottled-water moralists, AND all the local authorities, my tap water is also “perfectly safe to drink.” Because it meets all state and federal standards. And it’s been known to win taste tests.
Some supplies are very clean. Others have a wide range of permitted contaminants, but are still called “perfectly safe” by people unaware that the actual standard is “as safe as we can make it without bankrupting the water utility.”
Which is not at all the same as “perfectly safe.”
Most people aren’t aware of the dangers of perfectly legal levels of arsenic.
Show me actual lab results for your municipal supply, and then I’ll believe it’s MORE “perfectly safe” than my water, but, until then, I remain skeptical.
What are your municipality’s standards for arsenic?
Will those standards prevent problems like this:
Dangerously High Levels of Deadly Arsenic in UK Drinking Water
…?
…or will you just assume your water is “perfectly safe” because it meets the standards (whatever they may be)?
It’s a fair point.
This is less so:
since the article itself (even though clearly shilling for the water sold by the Living-Water Ltd.) states that the research only applies to water drawn directly from wells, etc.
The tests done by the recent British Geological Survey/Health Protection Agency study focused on individuals living in remote areas where drinking water is accessed from ground-water wells or bore holes. Those affected have higher levels of arsenic in their urine, which confirms that they were consuming the toxin. Authors of the study stressed that individuals receiving water from utility companies across the country are not affected, as their supplies are treated.
As for lab results, how’s this measure up? Not for my current residence but for where I used to live in London:
Should I have been buying Dasani? Presumably I would need some test results for Dasani to compare otherwise I’m just taking Coca-Cola’s word for it.
Either way, I think we can agree that treated water is likely to be better than drinking stuff that comes out of the ground without treatment without checking the water quality. 
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Amusingly, since you’re in the UK, by buying Dasani you’d just be drinking filtered tap water from Kent anyway.
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I also have experienced the delights of giardiasis and, if hours of emitting copious foul gases from both ends of one’s digestive tract followed by violent purging appeals to this gentleman, he should open the sewage trap in his front yard. He’ll find any amount of concentrated microbial health-juice.
i deliver water samples from wells and reservoirs for many local water agencies, and a few private ones. the labs that i bring them to also test Dasani, aquafina, crystsl geyser and other bottled brands.
the lab technicians tell me they are mostly all the same when they are tested but they generlly seem to think dasani is one of the cleanest, which i was not expecting.
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