[aldo_14]

I had to steal the title too.........

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/36408.html

Tapwater with added carcinogen - yummy!

[karajorma]

Funny thing is that I think people who buy still mineral water when tap water is available shouldn't breed. Coke apparently thought so too and were putting bromide in the water

The only problem was their use of ozone to further purify the water was turning it into bromate

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]The only problem about using the word 'spunky' over here is it tends to make you think that the water has a high protien/zinc content.
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[an0n]

.......While I'm rather impressed you've memorised the contents of semen: Ewwwww.

[Jiggyhound]

rofl

anyway, glad to see the bottled tap water menace is gone from our shelves , hoorah!

[an0n]

Oh and as always, The Register fails to report the whole story.

Legal levels of Bromates in the EU are 25ppm and in the UK 10ppm. The Dasani had in the region of 19-22ppm.

[mikhael]

Actually, Maeg didn't list all the contents of semen, an0n. If you'd like I can list for your the most common ingredients and the nutritional value if you'd like.

Regardless: there's a difference between bottled purified water and tap water, generally. I don' t know about your tap water, but the tap water we get in my area is chlorinated and flouridated and passed through rusty copper and iron pipes. The end result tastes something like licking a rock. Even purified water like Dasani (or Pepsi's slightly cheaper, but exactly the same product, Aquafina) is better than the tap water.

What I don't get is the percieved difference between spring water and purified water. Purified water has fewer impurities and has to meet higher standards than spring water, yet spring water is considered superior.

[Fineus]

It's the whole "straight from nature" angle. The only problem is that anything that comes straight from nature has issues just the same as anything else. And I really don't think drinking one as opposed to the other will do you any better.

Meh, I don't care.

[an0n]

Penn and Teller's Bull**** did a thing on bottle water like 2-3 weeks back on FX!.

Turns out, people are morons.

They set-up shop in this posh food-place (*can't spell restarurant*) and filled a bunch of plastic bottles with water from this ****ty, dirt-encrusted old hose out back, slapped some labels on them like "Amazonian Pure" and "Glacial Blue". They even put a plastic spider in one of them and told the people it helped to keep the water pure.

Then they trotted them out for like $8/bottle and had people sample them as they would a wine and every single one of the ****ers was like "Yeah, it's softer than the last one. You can definitely taste that arctic coldness."

[Bobboau]

"Coca Cola adds a bromide derivative into water products to meet UK health laws."
something about that statment seems funny

[Rictor]

Anyone fool enough to pay for water deserves whatever they get. Its natural selection, purifying the gene pool.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I have to agree there, but we buy the stuff in large quantities, as our tap water is unsafe to drink.
Lead pipes, see.

[an0n]

Only time I've paid for water was when I've been at college and been too sane to drink the water from the taps in the boys bogs.

And don't even get me started on my old SCHOOL. All the water in the Old Block flowed from a big rain-tank on the roof. It hadn't been cleaned out in like 10 years and when they finally got around to it they found like 6 dead seagulls in it. They quickly placed "Not safe to drink" signs at all the taps.

[Ghostavo]

It hadn't been cleaned out in like 10 years and when they finally got around to it they found like 6 dead seagulls in it.

Did they drown or did the water killed them?

[an0n]

The 'water' probably attacked them.

[Ghostavo]

Minor "Flood" then...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I have to agree there, but we buy the stuff in large quantities, as our tap water is unsafe to drink.
Lead pipes, see.

Unfortunately this was little more than tap water from Sidcup with some bromide added and ozone bubbled through it. They would then mark up the price from the 0.03p they paid for it to 95p.

BTW For those of you not that chemically literate bromide was used in WWII to suppress sexual desire in the troops

Lets not also forget that the high concentrations of calcium in London tap water is actually supposed to be good for the heart and bones. No doubt they removed large amounts of calcium via ion exchange thereby robbing it of one of the benificial properties of the tap water.

@Anon just because the EU have a higher standard than ours doesn't mean that Britain is being overprotective. There are several chemical standards that we have that are much lower than the equivalent EU ones. Standards are set after lots of discussion and compromise so the higher EU standard is probably due to someone on the continent using bromate for something.

[an0n]

I wasn't implying the UK was being over-protective.

I was implying that it won't be long before the EU forces us to lower safety standards to suit their ****ty laws.

[01010]

Apparently the water we get around here (the midlands) is as pure as bottled water anyway, I certainly can't tell the difference.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by 01010
Apparently the water we get around here (the midlands) is as pure as bottled water anyway, I certainly can't tell the difference.

Soft water area. Your water tastes better but isn't as good for you. Funny how that's always the way.