Posted by Rachel/ORWA on 7/27/07 6:31pm
Msg #202343

Another business opportunity! cha-ching... ;-) ...

Anyone read this article about Pepsi's Aquifina brand of bottled water? In a nutshell, they are soon going to add a label disclosing the fact the water comes from public water sources. If you all will just send me your empty bottles with pre-paid return packaging, I'll be happy to fill them from my spring-fed, chlorine- and flouride-free, might I add, delicious, tap water. All for a nominal fee per bottle. I accept paypal and all major credit cards...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/hl_nm/pepsico_aquafina_dc;_ylt=An75rpzONAWH31nJYzBQlZPq188F

Reply by Rachel/ORWA on 7/27/07 7:10pm
Msg #202352

What!? No takers? I'm shocked. :0 n/m

Reply by Philip Johnson on 7/27/07 8:41pm
Msg #202379

Been to Hood River, I prefer the H2O a bit further west. :) n/m

Reply by Charles_Ca on 7/27/07 7:13pm
Msg #202353

Rachel, do you remember the Perrier debacle?

I really laughed when it was disclosed that Perrier filled their bottle in downtown Paris. Anyway its a little known dirty secret but all these expensinve waters are filter from the tap and then sometimes they add minerals back in to balance the taste. I started bringing water from my wells in Fort Bragg when I realized my dog didn't like the local water here in Orange County. I figure that if fish can't live in it, its just not fit for human consumption.

I have extensive springs on my ranch in FB and the town of Mendocino just South of me has a water shortage. I figured I could ship the water to them since they truck in water and I was a lot closer but I couldn't meet the federal requirements for potable water becasue I didn't have a federally approved source and then I had no chlorination facilities: so they continue to truck it in from a long ways out. Sometimes I think that my dog knows better than our establishment !

Reply by Rachel/ORWA on 7/27/07 7:20pm
Msg #202356

Re: Rachel, do you remember the Perrier debacle?

I don't remember that, but history always repeats itself, doesn't it? I kind of did one of Zee's Bwahahas when I read the article.

The water here really is very good, although my offer was obviously a joke. I confess I still buy bottled when I'm on the road, though. Convenience, I guess.

Reply by John_NorCal on 7/27/07 7:22pm
Msg #202357

The only authentic company that I know of is...

Alhambra. I was up in the Sierra's near Lake Tahoe a few years ago when an Alhambra tanker truck pulled up. He hooked up to a pipe near a rushing stream and proceeded to fill the tanker. I asked him if that was their usual practice and he told me that it was, they filled their tankers then took the water back to be processed for any impurities that might be found.
Made a believer out of me!

Reply by PAW on 7/27/07 10:20pm
Msg #202410

Re: The only authentic company that I know of is...

There are others, I'm sure. I believe Poland Springs is real spring water from Maine. And Zephyrhills water, though not really spring water, is from an underground river that is a tributary to the Crystal River in Florida. The natural filtering by the high limestone content in this area makes the water sparkling clear, albeit a bit high in lime. We always had fun with the companies that try to sell us water softeners and the like. They couldn't improve on the water. The only thing they could do is remove bacteria, if they provided a reverse osmosis processing system. (Which is what the Zephyrhills bottling plant does in huge quantities every day.)

Reply by Rachel/ORWA on 7/27/07 7:38pm
Msg #202364

Oops, forgot the "OT," but probably was obvious... n/m

Reply by janCA on 7/27/07 9:14pm
Msg #202386

I agree with Ben Franklin

As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. Remember, Water = Poop, Wine = Health.

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of sh@#.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.

Reply by NJBare on 7/27/07 9:30pm
Msg #202390

'Cheers to Ben!!!' n/m

Reply by JanetK_CA on 7/27/07 9:39pm
Msg #202391

LOL!!

Time to go pour a glass of red -- lots of good antioxidants, too!! ;>

Seriously, though, you do bring up an interesting point. I think this issue is another example of news misinforming and confusing more than clarifying. What got lost in the coverage I heard - or got glossed over - is that even though much bottled water is "sourced" from a tap, it is often (but not always) purified or filtered before it is bottled. I feel that makes a pretty significant difference.

Personally, I'm with Charles... If it's too dangerous for our fish tanks (if that's what you're into), then I don't want to be drinking it, either. I dislike the taste of our local tap water and I think there are more things in it (especially after it's traveled through who knows what getting to our homes) than we'd probably like to think about on any given day. I'm all for keeping water bottles out of the landfills, too, so I just have my own point-of-use filter and I fill my own bottles! Problem solved...

Reply by PAW on 7/27/07 10:14pm
Msg #202407

Likewise here. I live right next door to the Zephyrhills bottling plant. Their well is next to my well, and we get the water from the same source. They sell it, I get it for free. They bottle it, I swim in it, I cook with it, I water the lawn with it, I even flush the john with it.

I'd be more than happy to fill your bottles for an astronomical fee, since it's NOT public source. PayPal and major credit cards likewise accepted.

Reply by jba/fl on 7/27/07 10:34pm
Msg #202415

Local Wal_-Mart sells water, bottled from Miami Municipa ...

municipal water plant. UGH. That's when I really decided I could drink Orlando's water, plus, no flouride!
Zephyrhills - the best. In the car, but only when on case special, then refill from my tap until the bottles get given away or somehow die.

Reply by Rachel/ORWA on 7/28/07 1:47am
Msg #202435

P.T. Barnum had nothin' on us! ;-) n/m

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 7/27/07 10:41pm
Msg #202418

I save my plastic water bottles

and fill with my Pur filtered water pitcher. Tastes just like the other filtered waters. Pepsi was not misadvertising, their water is "Filtered Water", not spring water. There is a big difference!
It used to be that both Coke and Pepsi on their list of ingredients, the first was "filtered water" (now it just says "water". I figured they started filtering their water so that the Pepsi (or Coke) we buy in Detroit takes the same as the same brand does in CA or NY or TX or FL. It wasn't always that way, both brands tasted different in different parts of the country. Then the way I see it, some executive at one of the big "two" decided that they could just sell the water that they were filtering anyway, leave out the sugar or corn syrup, carbination and flavorings and charge the same money. Bet that guy got a nice bonus!!