Re: Bottled water IS tap water!

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> Of course we need water. I suppose the best we can do is provide

the cleanest water available. It seems that in a polluted World,.....

Even in labs, manufacturing semiconductors or drugs, water cleanliness

has an element of compromise. Nothing will be perfect and someone will

always complain about something.

My rant today is folks who thing " spring water " is some pure

unadulterated nectar of the gods. Spring water is at best the same

purity as the local streams and rivers. There is no magical filtering

that occurs.

I was in a deep cave in GA one time mapping passages miles from the

entrance. I spent several hours, in my wetsuit, in an underground

river. On leaving the cave about 24 hours after entering I took a

bath in the spring where the water exited the cave.

A group of people, carrying water bottles, approached the spring as I

was leaving. They were all excited about getting their " ultrapure

water of the gods " . I couldn't bring myself to tell them that the

spring pool had just been my bath tub. This also neglects the time I

was in the cave, the quarry in the neighborhood, and the farm animals

that also share the drainage basin.