- Bottled, or Tap Water? by showard12
19 y
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Blog: The Bottled Water Scam.
According to a study published in the Archives of Family Medicine (March 2000), you can probably put away your wallet and save your pennies. Tap water is likely to offer you more health benefits and is likely to be more "pure" than most brands of bottled water.
The study, conducted in Ohio, compared the levels of bacteria in 57 samples of bottled water vs. tap-water samples collected from four different water-processing plants. Bacterial counts were measured to determine whether they fell within an acceptable range. Bacterial counts in the bottled water samples ranged from less than 0.01 per milliliter to 4,900 per milliliter, whereas the counts in the tap water samples ranged from 0.2 per milliliter to 2.7 per milliliter, a much tighter and more reliable range.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Health Canada, the public water supply in the North America is one of the safest in the world, although the quality does vary by geographic location. (Your plumbing can also affect the quality, as well as the taste.) More than 90 potential contaminants of water have been identified, and there are “legal acceptable” standards for each. Water plants that don't adhere to these standards are required, by law, to inform their customers of the areas in which they fall short.
Manufacturers of bottled water, unfortunately, are not required to adhere to the same rigorous quality standards. For example, in the U.S., bottled water is not regulated by the EPA but by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although the FDA attempts to follow the EPA's tap-water standards, it is not required to do so, thus allowing a greater range of bacterial contaminants to be present in bottled water, even though the source of many bottled waters is, in fact, tap water!
According to the World Health Organization, "Some substances may prove more difficult to manage in bottled than tap water. This is generally because bottled water is stored for longer periods and at higher temperatures than water distributed in piped distribution systems. Control of materials used in the containers for bottled waters is, therefore, of special concern. In addition, some micro-organisms, which are normally of little or no public health significance, may grow to higher levels in bottled waters."
On the other hand, some bottled water is superior to public tap water and bottled water is necessary when a natural disaster or other emergency strikes and the public water system is damaged.
However, for value, purity, health, and even convenience, a home water ionizer--connected to your public water supply -- is clearly superior to bottled water.
Bottled water is acidic, oxidizing and expensive. Drinking water from your water ionizer is alkaline and anti-oxidant, with no use of disposable plastic, and at a tiny fraction of the cost.
Learn more about Jupiter Water Ionizers
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- ionised water by robbojnr
19 y
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i have been drinking ionised water for a year and my health has declined...
there is a lot of talk about ionised water and from what i have read it doesnt seem to be what its all cracked u-p to be. It is claimed that ionising water is treating it synthetically and that the body doesnt want high leveled -ph water in the system. According to re-ports it maesses up- the gut and the at-p, and that in ja-pan hardly anyone used it anymore.
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- Re: ionised water by showard12
19 y
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I was very interested to read of your experience with ionized water. As a researcher and retailer of water ionizers this is the first time I've ever heard anyone be negative about results. May I suggest that it's possible that the decline in your health may be unrelated to your consumption of alkaline water? Here's why: there is an absolutely vast body of research about the importance of correcting acid imbalance in the body by both eating alkaline forming foods and drinking alkaline water. So first of all, may I refer you to the scientific research, here: http://www.waterionizer.org/site/898596/page/443004 As far as the reports that it is not used in Japan any longer, i wonder where you found those reports, since our current research shows that between 1in5 and 1in 8 Japanese households use water ionizers. Last month alone, 40,000 Jupiter water ionizers were sold in Korea alone.
Our own experience with our customers could be roughly broken into two categories; the appreciative and the extremely enthusiastic. The really enthusiastic ones tend generally to be people with chronic diseases or conditions who found dramatic improvements from drinking ionized water. The reports from the "healthy" are not as dramatic.
One last thing, are you sure that you're drinking the alkaline water and not the acid water from your ionizer? I don't know what kind of ionizer you have, but hopefully it came with a ph test kit. Test the water you're drinking to make sure it's alkaline.
Lastly, perhaps you've read a report criticizing alkaline water based on what I would call "partial" science. If that's the case, you might be interested in looking at this article, "Alkaline Ionized Water and the Skeptics" here: http://www.waterionizer.org/site/898596/page/452400
Stan Howard
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- Re: Bottled, or Tap Water? by soaringideas
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- tap-water samples collected from four different water-processing plants. by White Shark
17 y
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I read this part:
"tap-water samples collected from four different water-processing plants"
I don't really get a chance to drink water collected from a water-processing plant.
From the water-processing plant, until my home, there are miles and miles of tubes.
What I drink comes from tubes, not from water-processing plant, and that is where the problem is.
I would have no problem with drinking water directly from a water-processing plant, but my tap water is separated from a plant by miles and miles of tubes, tubes that may not be as clean and healthy as we would like them to be.
White Shark
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