"Nancy2" > wrote in message
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> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>>
>> We've saved glass 4 liter wine bottles over the years and purchase all
>> our water from the Wal-mart vending machine at $.25 per gallon. :-)
>>
>> It's quite pure and quite good.
>>
>> No need to pay a premium price... Most folks use recycled 1 gallon milk
>> bottles, but we prefer to have it in glass. Prevents picking up that
>> "plastic" taste. ;-)
>
> Don't forget to periodically disinfect those containers that you re-use
> over and over for water. Bacteria grows in those things lickety-split.
> I finally recycled my big, 6-gallon container to Goodwill because the
> water was making me sick all the time. Then I found out you have to
> disinfect them every two weeks or every month. Now I just buy cheap
> spring water in bottles, and if I don't have any, I drink tap water.
> Big whoop.

Big whoop, indeed. People should be aware that tap water in the U.S. is FAR
more tightly regulated than bottled water. A survey by Comsumer Reports
found that seven out of ten samples of bottled "spring" water were
contaminated with bacteria. Fortunately most bottled water IS tap water,
including those expensive Dasani (Coca-Cola) and Aquafina (Pepsi) brands.
Tap water is tested daily in nearly every public water supply district.
Bottled water is regulated by the FDA which has many more regulatory
responsibilities, and nowhere near enough inspectors to do a thorough job of
testing bottled waters. Anybody who thinks bottled water is somehow safer
than tap water should note what Evian® spells backwards.

--Rich