Greenie Quiz

[RecycleMichael]

Tulsa charges a flat rate based on meter size then $2.17 per thousand gallons.

If you paid a dollar a bottle for 24 oz bottle of water, that is five dollars a gallon.

If your family of four drank two bottles of water each day at this price, you would pay $584.00 per year.

The city would have charged you 63 cents per year.

[Hawkins]

You can buy Ozarka spring water--the water I boiled on the stove--for $1.19 a gallon.

Substantially less residue than tap water, and I don't believe that this is only minerals we are talking about.

I've seen what heavy water can do to a bathroom sink or tub, and I don't have hard water residue in my sink or tub.

But, I will agree that many brands of bottled water are a joke. Dasani, and Aquafina are tap water with additives or simple carbon filtration.

I always buy water labeled as "spring water" not "drinking water."

"Drinking water," on the label typically means that it is tap water with chemicals and such.

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[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by Hawkins

You can buy Ozarka spring water--the water I boiled on the stove--for $1.19 a gallon.

Substantially less residue than tap water, and I don't believe that this is only minerals we are talking about.

I've seen what heavy water can do to a bathroom sink or tub, and I don't have hard water residue in my sink or tub.

But, I will agree that many brands of bottled water are a joke. Dasani, and Aquafina are tap water with additives or simple carbon filtration.

I always buy water labeled as "spring water" not "drinking water."

"Drinking water," on the label typically means that it is tap water with chemicals and such.

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Buy Ozarka if you feel you must, but a Pur or Brita filter is a far better deal economically.  Your tap water after going through a carbon filter is basically what your Ozarka is.  Go down to an area like Stigler, they only have 20 ppm of hardness in their water.

I'd used the figure of $6 per 1000 gallons of tap water, must've been the commercial rate I was thinking of.  At RM's figure of $2.17 per 1000 gal, a gallon from the tap is only $.002.

I'm going home, but you can work the math on what percent more you are getting ripped off for at $1.19 a gallon for H20 with a few less minerals.  If it makes you feel better, more power to ya, just make sure you recycle the containers.

[cannon_fodder]

I'm also a fan of the "pure spring water" myth.

Spring water is often loaded with heavy metals, sulfur, and other chemicals that dont sound so yummy when you actually look to see what is in the water.

Bottle water, for that matter, isnt considered a food product so it is not monitored by the FDA.  They can filter it as little or as much as they want and add whatever they like as an additive. Yay.

Tulsa city water is damn good.  Only a few weeks during the year (change over to warm weather) is the treatment of the water even noticeable.   However, there are chemicals, so if you're brewing with it you should boil it well first.

[Conan71]

Ever wonder if the national media follows our various rants and observations? []

"Moreover, tests on 1,000 bottles of 103 different brands of bottled water found man-made chemicals, bacteria and arsenic in 22 percent of the bottles."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070405/hl_nm/bottled_water_dc