Post by Tumbleweed on Jun 17, 2012 14:55:57 GMT -6
When I moved to this house, my source of tap water came from the Missouri and Platte rivers. In my old home, it was well water. The difference in taste and smell was drastic. Some times, in the summer, the water at my current home, smelled so bad you really didn't even want to take a shower in it. So from day one, we taste tested different bottled waters and settled on one that just tasted good not really doing any research on it. We continued to cook with tap water and I made my coffee from tap water but other than that, we drank bottled water. Because the tap water was so nasty, I often gave our pets bottled water too although not consistently. A few years back out water utilities announced the water was no longer safe for small animals. (Like mice, birds and fish). Even though they say it is "safe" for humans and bigger animals like cats and dogs I sure wasn't convinced so my two cats and my Mom's birds strictly got bottled water.
A few years back my wonderful niece purchased a water filter system as a gift to us and we used this for a couple years until I slacked off and didn't order a new filter. We just went back to bottled as the cost was equivalent.
Now I guess I had a lot of faith in the "taste test" of my bottled water choice because I never really did research on it until recently when I decided to compare our tap water with other cities. Come to find out our tap water was one of the worst out of 100 of the larger cities tested ranking almost last at 94th. Wow, that is really bad water!
www.healthiertalk.com/cities-best-worst-tap-water-2527
You can do a little research on exactly what they are finding in your water here:
www.ewg.org/tap-water/whats-in-yourwater
So next came research on my bottled water choice. Initially, I found some alarming information that our bottled water contain far too much arsenic at one point in time. I can't remember the year now but that same report had a notation they immediately took care of the issue and recent tests show no arsenic whatsoever. Other than that one incident, I believe it is one of the better waters out there although I'd have to dig up reports on other bottled waters and put it in a data base to really know for sure. But compared to my tap water it is 100 times better. In case you are wonder what bottled water I speak of, it is Crystal Geyser. A interesting fact posted on their web site is that Crystal Geyser water is the only American water allowed to be exported into France.
www.crystalgeyserasw.com/quality.html
No, I'm not getting paid to say this. It is really the water I prefer and one of the reasons is that it tasted much like the well water I drank as a kid on our farm which was just about as pure as water can be. When I was a kid, farmers farmed the old fashioned way using few chemicals, alternated crops, and farmed smartly. (Sadly, this same well water is no longer drinkable due to farmers spraying chemicals like it is going out of style.)
I want to encourage you to find out what is in your tap water and if it is anywhere as bad as ours, you may want to look into a filtering system or go the route of bottled water, making sure you research the bottled water first.
So now, I'm using bottled water for about everything except I have no choice but to shower in it but I wonder how much of the bad stuff is absorbed through the skin.
On a side note, my Mom got cancer many years ago and I remember, when she came to stay with me while she underwent cancer treatment, a doctor saying, "My gosh we are getting a lot cancer patients from Hastings. Something has to be going on there!" Just out of curiousity, just today, I looked up Hastings water test results. They had 7 violations. I have no doubt my Mom's cancer was related to the water in that city. I suspected it back then and I still do and reading this report confirms it in my mind.
A few years back my wonderful niece purchased a water filter system as a gift to us and we used this for a couple years until I slacked off and didn't order a new filter. We just went back to bottled as the cost was equivalent.
Now I guess I had a lot of faith in the "taste test" of my bottled water choice because I never really did research on it until recently when I decided to compare our tap water with other cities. Come to find out our tap water was one of the worst out of 100 of the larger cities tested ranking almost last at 94th. Wow, that is really bad water!
www.healthiertalk.com/cities-best-worst-tap-water-2527
You can do a little research on exactly what they are finding in your water here:
www.ewg.org/tap-water/whats-in-yourwater
So next came research on my bottled water choice. Initially, I found some alarming information that our bottled water contain far too much arsenic at one point in time. I can't remember the year now but that same report had a notation they immediately took care of the issue and recent tests show no arsenic whatsoever. Other than that one incident, I believe it is one of the better waters out there although I'd have to dig up reports on other bottled waters and put it in a data base to really know for sure. But compared to my tap water it is 100 times better. In case you are wonder what bottled water I speak of, it is Crystal Geyser. A interesting fact posted on their web site is that Crystal Geyser water is the only American water allowed to be exported into France.
www.crystalgeyserasw.com/quality.html
No, I'm not getting paid to say this. It is really the water I prefer and one of the reasons is that it tasted much like the well water I drank as a kid on our farm which was just about as pure as water can be. When I was a kid, farmers farmed the old fashioned way using few chemicals, alternated crops, and farmed smartly. (Sadly, this same well water is no longer drinkable due to farmers spraying chemicals like it is going out of style.)
I want to encourage you to find out what is in your tap water and if it is anywhere as bad as ours, you may want to look into a filtering system or go the route of bottled water, making sure you research the bottled water first.
So now, I'm using bottled water for about everything except I have no choice but to shower in it but I wonder how much of the bad stuff is absorbed through the skin.
On a side note, my Mom got cancer many years ago and I remember, when she came to stay with me while she underwent cancer treatment, a doctor saying, "My gosh we are getting a lot cancer patients from Hastings. Something has to be going on there!" Just out of curiousity, just today, I looked up Hastings water test results. They had 7 violations. I have no doubt my Mom's cancer was related to the water in that city. I suspected it back then and I still do and reading this report confirms it in my mind.