On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:07:03 GMT, jay > wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:48:59 GMT, Lou Decruss wrote:
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>> How does your state or country deal with this? Do you buy bottles of
>> water? Do you at least recycle them?
>>
>> Here's an article from today's Chicago Tribune. Some silly stuff
>> he
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>> http://tinyurl.com/27vmgf
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>> Lou <----off the rant now
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>The bottled water industry are huge group of thieves. Gasoline is a real
>value in comparison. Some of this "spring" water is bottled straight from
>the tap in the arm pits of Houston, Texas. lol

One of the original water bottlers in Chicago was Hinkley and Schmidt.
They filtered and "enhanced" the water, but it originally came from
Lake Michigan just like our tap water. People in the suburbs bought
it because their water wasn't as good. Now most suburbs have Chicago
water and there isn't a need, but they still buy the stuff. When the
piping was done the suburbs were loaded with water softeners on
garbage day. Now Hinkley and Schmidt gets their water from a spring
(supposedly) about 35 miles west, outside of a city called Elgin.
They are now called Hinkley Springs. The water was better when they
got it from the same source most logical Chicagoans get theirs from:
The tap.

Lou