Bottled Water

Woody n Sue · Guru

Bottled Water

JA2340 · Senior Member

Absolutely ZERO!
Our water is supplied from tanks, we carry water with us in our own (aluminium or glass) bottles wherever we go.
Would NEVER buy bottled water - if for no other reason than that the contents comes from a municipal tap somewhere (albeit filtered) at a mark-up exceeding 1000%.

Link does not resolve - may well be a dodgy site! Tried a couple times, no result, no further interest.

Woody n Sue · Guru

Thats interesting the link works for me ja2340
I very very really buy or drink bottled water too .

Woody

Mike Harding · Guru

Read on in the same article:

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Orb Media performed another study, again commissioning researchers from The State University of New York at Fredonia, testing drinking water from another source: taps. More than 80 percent of the samples collected on five continents tested positive for the presence of plastic.

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So, micro plastic is in bottled water AND tap water - I'm just going to have to stick to beer and hope like hell no one does a test on that!

They also say, from a human health perspective, they have absolutely no idea whether the consumption of micro plastic matters a damn - maybe we just pass it out again, no one knows.

I think a journalist just wanted an easy article with a scare content.

I buy two 1.5lt bottles about once a year from Safeway and keep them in the vehicle as drinking water - I do this because the bottles are a very convenient size and shape for this purpose and their transparent nature means I always know how much is in them. They are refilled from the tap until they wear out. At 90c I reckon it's good value for such a container.

Desert Dweller · Guru

We never buy water in plastic bottles, it's crap. As we travel around, water quality & sources vary. We drink it all.

This scenario improves our gut flora & doesn't do any harm to our health. In fact it enhances our metabolism.

Those that try to lock themselves away from random water sources increase their risk of illness.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

I agree DD. However, remember when we woz kids.

My old man was an itinerant and we moved constantly ... usually at least every six months as he chased work.

I remember many times we moved, and therefore were exposed to different drinking water - either because of different tanks in different towns or because of different town water supplies - it was not unusual to get 'tummy upsets' (diarrhoea to be impolite )

Mum used to boil all water when we first moved in but sometimes even that didn't work.

"Town water" is now so 'purified' and stuff added to 'keep it clean' it is rare to get tummy upsets no matter where we move to. I can't remember the last time I 'found' town water that disagreed with my gut.

Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Sunday 3rd of June 2018 08:07:41 PM

JA2340 · Senior Member

Our tanks water is the only one I can stomach! Not because of the risk of illness, but because it tastes revolting!
I take my own water to work, and the only town water I drink has been heated for coffee!

Woody n Sue · Guru

Mike I hear ya Im sticking to beer too however its probably unexceptable for breakfast when driving shortly there after so will have to stick with water for such morning uses .
Rocky I can remember ( yeah I know not all the time ) as a kid at school throwing ( not me other kids ) dead crows and assorted birds in to the open top rain water tanks and no one got crook from it we musta had cast iron constitutions back then, can ya just imagine the bird poop that was in there as well .
I think Ill stick to my rain water from my roof with the added bonus of bird poop and spray drift from paddocks near and far , filtered by a good coating of dust with perhaps a dash of rust from the old galvanised tin roof for good measure .

Ahhh the flavour theres nothing quite like it

Woody

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I usually only drink the water so the plastic woudn't be a problem then.

Tony Bev · Guru

I read on the internet, (so it may not be correct)

That most bottled water, comes from being pumped out of the ground

If this is true, then perhaps the plastic is coming from the inside of the bottles, which could mean that the bottles are not being flushed out correctly

I buy and use bottled water when on a road trip
I call it my insurance against getting a tummy upset, which would probably spoil the enjoyment of travelling

Possum3 · Guru

Geeze, as a Bush-Kid we would carefully sweep the "sheep pills" away from the edge of the dam with a forearm prior to plunging in the face for a drink - never had any problems. Water bags on the rail of the vehicles actually put a taste to the water that was unique and nice. Still believe the best tasting water comes from my rain-water tank. In the city never drink water (don't like the taste), only ever drink tea. As for coffee, I don't know why something that smells so good is so bloody disgusting.

Sorry to deviate from Woody's original post, but plastic is a real problem in today's modern world whilst there are babies and young children dying in the Third World due to the lack of a clean water supply. I find it a crying shame that supply of potable water doesn't become a major topic of discussion and seeking a solution a top priority of our welfare assistance.

JA2340 · Senior Member

Possum3 wrote:
Geeze, as a Bush-Kid we would carefully sweep the "sheep pills" away from the edge of the dam with a forearm prior to plunging in the face for a drink - never had any problems. Water bags on the rail of the vehicles actually put a taste to the water that was unique and nice. Still believe the best tasting water comes from my rain-water tank. In the city never drink water (don't like the taste), only ever drink tea. As for coffee, I don't know why something that smells so good is so bloody disgusting.

Sorry to deviate from Woody's original post, but plastic is a real problem in today's modern world whilst there are babies and young children dying in the Third World due to the lack of a clean water supply. I find it a crying shame that supply of potable water doesn't become a major topic of discussion and seeking a solution a top priority of our welfare assistance.

I suspect that it's quite closely related to the "I'm all right, Jack!" attitude - one I hear from the city-centric whingers complaining about the amount of rain they've had - I could do with a bit out here!

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Then they say farmers are always complaining ! I tell ya one thing . If your dying for a drink . Bottled water in plastic bottle is your least concern ! We try to keep them cooled and away from direct sun .,

blaze · Guru

I remember when on extended hunting and fishing trips we never carried water, just drunk from any running water we come across. Mind you this was in tassie
cheers
blaze

fwdoz · Guru

This leads to a question....

if something bad happened as a result of ingesting, does that mean one would need...plastic surgery?

hako · Guru

Local ABC were discussing the recent rescue of the Korean girl up near Tully - they commented that she showed little signs of distress despite having to drink running water from the waterfall for 7 days.
The general population is so brain washed!

Good Luck.

Tony Bev · Guru

A little more to the debate

Perhaps a little more than just plastic to worry about

Below is a news article about contaminated water in a so called remote community location

I estimate that this so called remote community, is about 55 kilometres ot thereabouts from the Stuart Highway

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-19/families-plead-for-action-over-uranium-in-drinking-water/9879748

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Over the years I have lived and worked in a number of countries where drinking water from plastic bottles is far more desirable than drinking from a tap. In Mozambique we used to take the water from the tap boil it, run it through a ceramic drip filter overnight and then only use it to wash our dishes or clean our teeth. Believe me the risk of injesting micro amounts of plastic would be far more palatable than getting Cholera, Dysentary or some other water born disease. Up until April I had been living in both Bahrain and Oman for 9 months where the water comes from desalination plants I never used the bottled water that they supplied and drank straight from the tap as it was very good quality. Since I have returned home to Newcastle drinking water from the tap or in a cup of tea I can still taste Chlorine and our water supply here is supposed to be top quality. I think after I while that you must become used to it so that you don't even taste the chlorine anymore, like you possum I love the smell of coffee brewing but I can't stand the taste.

Cheers

BB

the rocket · Guru

Travel with bottled water. Most cities we use mains and boil.

aussietraveller · Guru

An interesting discussion with regard to water in plastic bottles, this may explain why water in plastic bottles has a use by date stamped on it.
Due to all this concern I have now decided to limit my intake to Beer, I have checked the three different brands in the fridge all glass bottles and no use by date, I think the lack of a use by date means that it is much better for you than water cause the containers of water I have all have use by dates.

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

No use by date from tap either !

blaze · Guru

Aus-Kiwi wrote:
No use by date from tap either !

bit expensive setting up a keg and tap evertime you want a beer

cheers

blaze