Cutting Water Bottles Out of Our Lives

[Succubus]

Bottled water is the biggest scam ever. I drink from the tap ( and get the side-eye from coworkers when I do that at work) and our local water district mails out reports specifying exactly what's in the water. In fact, a number of bottled water brands simply bottle their water from "municipal sources" - aka tap water.
The kid gets tap water in a reusable bottle in her lunch box.
We take reusable water bottles filled with tap water on hikes and the rare trip out into the world where drinkable water might not be available.
Funny how we humans got on ok for millennia without commercial bottled water, now it seems people will shrivel up and die without it.

-Teresa

Indeed it is, followed closely by the huge marketing success, jug filters. The active component of a typical jug filter is a cartridge containing a few grammes of activated charcoal which will certainly remove chlorine but very little else. As pointed out up thread you can achieve the same results by leaving a jug of water on the bench for half an hour.
As for removing minerals, is this even desirable? Try drinking distilled water or reverse osmosis water, it's absolutely disgusting and as for making tea, forget it. But then of course this is not a problem for our cousins across the pond.

For cultured folk who are into quality beer, Burton On Trent India Pale Ale is the stuff of legend and this is largely due to the water. This applies to all the beers from that region not just IPA. Home brewers who live in soft water regions will usually add Burtonizing Salts to the water to stiffen it up a bit. This is a chart of water quality contents from various regions.
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OMGFG! How can people drink that stuff? People do, after its been beerized that is.