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- fernB, on 10/10/2007, -10/+160wow so the ingredient in water is water... AMAZING
- Caruthers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+102I knew it.
Now if I could only prove that the ginger ale at the coffee shop is just Coke and Sprite mixed together. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+84Seriously, get a $15 water filter at Walmart, I use a Pur. Put it on your tap. Get a jug of some sort and fill it up every night with filtered water, put it in the fridge. Chilled, great tasting water. After a few months of that, normal tap water will taste nasty, but bottled water won't taste particularly better than what you're used to.
Why people lug cases of bottled water into their house is beyond me... a cheap filter gives you as the same quality water for much less money and hassle. - realclark, on 10/10/2007, -4/+59coke is a competitor to pepsi????.....wow thanks for the update!!
- NsinU8, on 10/10/2007, -4/+57They have never denied that fact. It was always marked on the bottle. Every brand of bottled water not marked natural spring water is just filtered water. The FDA says that the source has to be a "natural spring" in order to advertise the brand as such. Nonetheless.... Filtered Mississippi water? No thanks!
- SlappyMc, on 10/10/2007, -14/+57The geniuses behind evian water named it that because the people that buy bottled water are naive. Or so they say.
- nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Sir, please keep your voice down.
- FadieZ, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Penn & Teller: *****
http://video.google.ca/url?docid=6769966377964903559&esrc=sr2&ev=v&q=penn%2Bteller%*****%2Bwater&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXfPAjUvvnIc&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D6769966377964903559%26q%3Dpenn%2Bteller%*****%2Bwater%26total%3D23%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D1&usg=AL29H209OfJxFJT-P8SkJTAULCcXi4Spiw - MrBabyMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Coke's equivalent is Dasani, and who knows, it may be tap water too!
- frisbeeman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Not so much
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/evian.asp - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17They never pretended to be spring water. You didn't know that it was tap water?
- archlich, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14They were always labeled as having municipal water. I'm surprised this many people didn't know...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14filtered water is fine. Better than drinking spring water with a certain percentage of "nitrates" in it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Buy a pur or brita filter.
- santaliqueur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Or, unless your town has deemed the water unfit for consumption, drink it out of the tap. I assume the water is cleaner now than it was 20 years ago before all these "water purifier" products started arriving, and somehow nobody got sick from drinking (safe) tap water.
- justsomedigger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12ive got a bottle in front of me.. - "Aquafina, Pure water - perfect taste, Purified Drinking water. All bottled waters are not the same, Aquafinas state of the art Hydro-7 purification system consistently removes substances most other bottled waters leave in. So the only thing you taste in your water...is water. Aquafina pure water. Perfect Taste. Every time.
nowhere on the bottle does it claim to be spring water or anything of the sort.. personally i dont mind that its purified tap water.. aquafina is much cheaper and tastes just as good as any other bottled water.. - DiggzDE, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Cough....http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Surprise_Pepsi_s_Aquafina_bottled_water_is_from_a_Public_Water_Source... cough....
Man. This damn cough... - emjaymj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Why does it matter? The process of reverse osmosis is VERY thorough. Too thorough even, to the point where they end up needed to replace the minerals taken out. Using water from springs in the Alps or glaciers in the arctic would be a waste of resources and money, because after reverse osmosis, the end product is going to be the EXACT same thing.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9great. now the secret's out.
- Vashinred, on 10/10/2007, -15/+23Was Submitted already, Bury please.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Surprise_Pepsi_s_Aquafina_bottled_water_is_from_a_Public_Water_Source - Niten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I think a lot of people realize there's absolutely no health benefit to filtering their tap water, but do it anyway for the taste.
I drink straight tap water myself, but I suppose I may have it better than some; my city's water comes from the Floridian aquifer and from local springs, so it tastes pretty good to begin with. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Penn and Teller hammered this topic. They fed people water from the same hose over and over, told em it was glacier water from wherever, and the people loved it. http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/05/bottled-water-is-*****.html
- eaasness, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Tuesday is Soylent Green Day!
- Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10This is such a dupe its not even funny. Theres an article on the same thing in the TOP TEN!
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Wow, what kind of municipal water system do you have in your country?? They don't clean it of pesticides, industrial chemicals, it tastes bad, needs filtering or bottles? Where do you live? Ethiopia?? Over here, tap water taste great and you would have a hard time finding someone who could tell the difference... I guess we're just lucky then.
- univerio, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11Dupe.
- Zonghui, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11I don't see what the big deal is. I already knew Aquafina was just regular water that has been purified.
I don't care where it comes from, I drink it because it tastes better than ordinary tap water. It could be from a rusty old rain barrel for all I care. As long as they clean it up and put it in a nice bottle its all the same to me. - pamon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5and starbucks is just plain coffee too
- pipedreambomb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You brush your teeth at noon?
- kaelyiesta, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You mean news from ***** months later. Penn and Teller exposed this a long time ago, who cares if a company finally admits it. Thats just caving to the truth everyone already knows.
- patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dasani doesn't taste like water?
Wow, I must be ***** insane. - horizontaleight, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11digg - stories about tap water, apple, top 10 lists, and ron paul
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I fail to see how this is news...
- MrNewbie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The CBC did a series a while back about how the majority of Montréal doesn't put fluoride in its water, and how rates of tooth decay in those areas are the some of the highest in Canada off of reserves (and that's another issue entirely).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3not really. There's no chlorine, flouride, lead, etc in aquafina.
- Jushooter, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7So true.
- reventlov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another thing you won't get with a filter on your tap: tons of empty bottles! The amount of fossil fuels consumed in manufacturing and distributing bottled water is completely ***** insane, especially for "premium" water. Compared to the amount used by a single pitcher, a tap filter, and re-use, bottled water is downright criminal.
But I can see how people think bottled water is safer and/or better... they're idiots. They're probably stocking up for a big terrorist attack. - ZxieuS, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5this is just Dasani all over again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani check the United Kingdom Section
- varunb007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think it's just as pure as water from any other company due to all their purification stages. No matter where the water comes from, there is gonna be random minerals and junk in there that needs to be filtered out. Filters like Brita do a good job but it just uses one technique for filtering so I doubt you could achieve the level of purity that a company using multiple purification techniques such as osmosis and distillation can achieve. In the end, it's just some sensationalist smearing campaign fueled by people's preconceived perceptions and skepticism in science.
- tjdoom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I know I'll get dugg down for this comment abuse, but PEOPLE - this was on the TOP TEN yesterday!
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Surprise_Pepsi_s_Aquafina_bottled_water_is_from_a_Public_Water_Source - luciferin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Those minerals they add back in.
- earthnuggets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah wow, purified from "public water sources." It's not just straight from someone's kitchen sink. Get over it.
- origclubsoda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did Pepsi ever deny it was filtered tap water? You guys get exited of anything and everything
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"the drink comes from the same source as tap water"
In other news, the sky is blue. - patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2@cdnyny
They say it's biased as hell, but they don't lie. I don't think they would have shown it to THAT many people and not tell us.
Plus, if you're in a fancy restaurant, you're a) gullible enough to fall for that ***** and b) probably too scared to say that they taste the same. - dadadigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Someone can correct me if I'm wrong (and give me sources to prove it), but doesn't Dasani state that it's a product of reverse osmosis filtration? If that's true, then I don't care if it originally comes from a public water supply.
Unless things have changed, RO systems are the most effective way to filter water. I have a unit in my home, and after getting accustomed to it, I can tell when I drink water that isn't RO. Dasani sure tastes like RO to me.
I don't know about Aquafina. I have tried it, but it was a couple of years ago. - snopromise, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Looking at these two articles about the same thing next to each other on the front page. Sigh.
- bbear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So you have no objection to bottled soda? How many barrels of oil did we spend on that? Some of us want to drink water but don't want to carry it around with us all day - a gallon of water is heavy. People who choose water over sugar beverages are making a healthy choice for themselves. A step in the right direction is banning all beverages made with high fructose corn syrup. You should be drinking water.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3while i hate bottled water as much as the next *****, i dont want my city telling me what to drink. Then they would have a monopoly on the water. Do you want your only source of H2O to come from the govt'? Thats how they put the acid in you.
- Nanobe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Misleading title. It's not "just tap water". It's filtered tap water, which in theory is exactly the same as filtered spring water, assuming the filtering process is effective.
That said, regular unfiltered tap water is probably better for you than filtered water in most of the U.S. The impurities don't cause any harm and may even help build your immune system. (Remember that story about how eatings boogers might slightly boost your immune system? Same concept.)
I carry around a large water bottle which I just keep refilling with tap water. Cheap and convenient. -
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