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Thread ID: 141781 2016-02-24 00:36:00 Do You Buy Bottled Water? Why? Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1416447 2016-02-27 08:31:00 One of the questions I asked that no one has answered - what did everyone do before there was such a thing as bottled water?

A lot of people (not me) used to buy water purifiers and fillers to remove the chorine. I think that is where it all started.
Digby (677)
1416448 2016-02-28 01:56:00 And most people don't know they knew about lead and toxicity.
They also used clay.

Apparently the issue wasn't the pipes but cookware, especially when used with acidic ingredients.

So say the researchers.....

Did you see the prank where these guys plumbed up the guys house with beer, then they had a party. I am not religious but I would be shouting there is a god as the beer flows from taps
prefect (6291)
1416449 2016-02-28 02:02:00 I once worked for a service station in Perth. They sold bottled drinking water & distilled water. Both came from the tap. mzee (3324)
1416450 2016-02-28 08:54:00 I once worked for a service station in Perth. They sold bottled drinking water & distilled water. Both came from the tap.

I too, worked in a service station where we put "distilled water" in their batteries. There were some who would not have anything else but distilled water in their battery, so we did not tell them that the "distilled water" came out of the tap. Their batteries worked just fine.
Roscoe (6288)
1416451 2016-02-28 18:14:00 Now that one is bad. Drinking water from the tap is one thing, lying to customers and putting tap water in a battery is another. The impurities in tap water degrade the performance of batteries and shorten their life, there is a very good reason to use distilled water in them. Tap water will work, but it is not Ideal. Either way that's fraud, distilled water is not the same as tap water or drinking water (ever tried distilled water, it's horrible).

Way back in post office days and the early years of Telecom they had their own distillers and water storage tanks for the large lead acid battery banks in some large exchanges, if tap water was fine they'd never have gone to the trouble and expense. Now of course they just use sealed gel cells.
dugimodo (138)
1416452 2016-02-28 18:39:00 Did you see the prank where these guys plumbed up the guys house with beer

Yep.
Not so good for washing the clothes and taking a shower though.....
pctek (84)
1416453 2016-02-28 21:29:00 I dont know if its just me but when I see people sipping from them I feel like smashing their face in.The usual reasoned response we've come to expect. Tony (4941)
1416454 2016-02-28 23:01:00 The usual reasoned response we've come to expect.

We can't all be would be saints.
Cicero (40)
1416455 2016-02-29 01:05:00 We can't all be would be saints.I know - it's a real burden... Tony (4941)
1416456 2016-02-29 05:58:00 Most people buy bottled beer because it isn't piped to your taps like water is.It was cheaper in Vietnam to buy a bottle of beer than bottled water in restaurants.

Mind you, this was the same restaurant that offered sparrows on the menu. :eek:
Jen (38)
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