Not all bottles of water are purified. However, when that is labled on the bottle, it goes through the following process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filtration: The water is sent through filters or membranes whose holes will only let through extremely small particles, typically those smaller than 1 micron. Contaminants larger than 1 micron, including many germs and inorganic solids, can't make it through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distillation: The water is vaporized. Since minerals don't vaporize, all that's left after the vapor recondenses is demineralized water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reverse osmosis: The water is forced through semipermeable membranes not porous enough to let minerals or other contaminants through. For more in-depth information, see How does reverse osmosis work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ozonation: Ozone gas (the same type found in the atmosphere), typically created by subjecting oxygen to electrical current, is an antimicrobial agent -- it kills microorganisms. The water is infused with ozone (03) molecules as a disinfecting process, and the molecules naturally break down and leave the water fairly quickly. As an additional benefit, when the ozone molecules degrade to 02 and molecules, this leaves free oxygen ions to bond with other contaminants like iron and sulfur. When the oxygen bonds to these molecules, it turns them into oxides, which are insoluble. These now-insoluble contaminants are then filtered out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UV-light treatment: Ultraviolet (UV) light is a disinfecting agent -- it kills microorganisms, including bacteria and viruses, although some microorganisms are less affected by it than others. The process uses no chemicals. Instead, the water is subjected to intense UV light inside a chamber. The UV light damages microorganisms at the cellular level, either killing them or causing them to lose the ability to replicate. A virus that can't replicate is harmless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While killing bacteria to make sure you don't get any infectious disease or unwanted bacteria sounds great.. One thing I noticed about this process is that it also takes out the minerals which are good for your body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That just leaves you with plain empty h2o.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

H20 in itself is still reguardless good when it comes to putting liquid in your body.. its a far more wiser choice than putting a soda in the blood stream.. but with a lack of minerals, would it be a good choice to pick?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brain is highly dependent on water for it to be effective and even empty mineral water will produce better results than Dr. Pepper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, would it simpley be better to drink H20 from your sink or from a purfied bottled water?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What excatly are you paying more in a bottle than you are from your sink?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

Just be lucky that you HAVE water to drink. All I gotta say.

No point, its no more better for you than tap water from what I can see.

minerals don't vaporize

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not true. EVERYTHING will vaporize if you get it hot enough, rocks, glass plastic, metal, anything. We just aren't able to get it hot enough. (think sever thousand degrees here.)

I think you can still get sick from drinking clean water. The acids in your stomach don't have anything to attack (in the water) so they start attacking your stomach lining or something.

 

 

 

(but I'm not sure, I saw this tv thing about worms)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I use purified water; maybe the minerals are already in food ?

A lot of bottled water companies like Dasani or Aquafina put trivial amounts of minerals back in for flavor. As far as I know those minerals in the water are only for taste, and the amount is too small to really affect your nutrient intake.

Just drink tap water. I have never heard of anyone getting sick by drinking it (at least in Brisbane, Australia anyway).

Just drink tap water. I have never heard of anyone getting sick by drinking it (at least in Brisbane, Australia anyway).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one has gotten sick from bottled water either, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basically i'm curious if its worth it to buy the bottled water since its mineral free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The water in my sink does just fine..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

Just drink tap water. I have never heard of anyone getting sick by drinking it (at least in Brisbane, Australia anyway).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one has gotten sick from bottled water either, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basically i'm curious if its worth it to buy the bottled water since its mineral free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The water in my sink does just fine..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You'd have to do chemical analyses or find references on the net to see which is better. I just prefer tap though.

^Same.

 

 

 

Juts fill up a bottle, put in fridge, drink later

#care

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why would you need purified water? Just get normal water from the tap or from a normal bottle.

I think its better to drink tap water, because you build up a ressistance to any bugs in that water... or at least thats what i was told :-w

[Genius]How about mixing one with the other?![/Genius]

[Genius]How about mixing one with the other?![/Genius]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't see any problem with that

It depends on whats in your tap water. The tap water in our town, for example, has arsenic in it! I still drink it, but what the hell? :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Places with well water or heavy chlorinated water, though, I wouldn't drink. That's nasty.

i think you just waste money using bought in shop water much more expensive then tap water

As i've already said, if youre worried about not getting enough minerals from purified water, just know that all those minerals ONLY add taste and flavor, and aren't good/bad for you. Water isn't the place to look for nutrition, it's frickin water.

The way I see it only a complete and utter chump would be willing to pay ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã1/ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã1.50 for something that they can get for free. Bottled water is the biggest scam going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water out of the tap is absolutely fine, nobody bothered about it until companies tried to sell bottled water. It reminds me of the 'Only Fools And Horses' episode where Del Boy & Rodney put tap water in bottles and sell it as 'Peckham Spring' water.

Just drink tap water. I have never heard of anyone getting sick by drinking it (at least in Brisbane, Australia anyway).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*cough*Mexico*cough*

Poland Spring > Purified Water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I usually drink Poland Spring which is natural spring water. No mumbo jumbo filtering processes.

Bottled water is probably more dangerous than tap water. For example, dasani (owned by coca cola) was shown to have used extremely unsafe practices in its British marketplace. At least if people start getting sick from tap water, I'm unlikely to be the first one to drop dead. With bottled water, you never know.

I was watching Penn & Teller: BS the other night; they had a bit on bottled water (in the USA) and how 1/3 of it doesn't meet the national standards for it; and they even filled up 4 bottles of "top end bottled water" from a tap and had people in a resturant buying it - most of them were all "better than tap water", even people in the street were picking tap water for "tasting better" even after many of them said that bottled water tasted better, :rofl:

I was watching Penn & Teller: BS the other night; they had a bit on bottled water (in the USA) and how 1/3 of it doesn't meet the national standards for it; and they even filled up 4 bottles of "top end bottled water" from a tap and had people in a resturant buying it - most of them were all "better than tap water", even people in the street were picking tap water for "tasting better" even after many of them said that bottled water tasted better, :rofl:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With a little practice you can actually taste the increased chlorine in tap water, but most people can't tell the difference and the placebo affect accounts for "Mmmm...better than tap water!" when you drink it from a bottle.

 

 

 

Also, some funny stuff here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Spring Water" (with a picture of a lake surrounded by mountains on the label) -- Was actually from an industrial parking lot next to a hazardous waste site.

I have a solution:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mineral water.