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Blue in a Red State Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:24 PM
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Best/worst bottled water?
I'm an Ozarka Spring Water person. And you?
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Nicholas_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:27 PM
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1. Dont know the name
But I had a bottle of REAL mineral water in Romania once that was so laded with minerals that it was thick as sludg. It tasted like sludge as well.
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pk_du Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:27 PM
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2. I'm with W.C. Fields on this one......water?...never drink the stuff
...fish fuck in it.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:29 PM
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3. I'm against anything that has an after taste...
like Ozarka. I love Evian and Mountain Valley Spring.
Duckie
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Nag Champa Donating Member (271 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:31 PM
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4. Trinity water has my vote for the worst.
Tastes like the first bit out of a garden hose on a hot summer day.

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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:33 PM
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5. I've traveled the world sampling the finest of waters.

...And I'd have to say that Dasani is the worst crap I've ever had. Tastes like plastic and feet.

Among the running for best water: Vittel, Volvic, and Evian.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:03 PM
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17. Oh, I LOVE Volvic!!!
I gotta go up to Canada and get some!!!
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r_u_stuck2 Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:35 PM
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6. Never touch the stuff
"We found high levels of bacterial contamination in commercially bottled mineral water," Klont told Reuters Health.


Overall, 40 percent of all samples showed evidence of contamination with either bacteria or fungi. Bacteria could be grown in lab cultures from 21 samples.


"These findings indicate that the general perception that bottled water is safe and clean is not true," Klont noted.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041101/hl_nm/water_bacteria_dc
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:37 PM
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7. Chernobyl Springs is not very good
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:37 PM
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8. One of the few sensible things Dennis Miller ever said:
"Expensive bottled water is only expensive....once."
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:38 PM
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9. worst is easily taken
Bonaqua: Tap Water bottled by the Coca-Cola-Company. Not even hyper-"purified" like Dasani.

Best is ahrder; frankly I have no idea.
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:40 PM
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10. Badoit avec gas
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:51 PM
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11. evian is naive spelled backward
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:52 PM
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12. Forget bottled water
my little village has the best gravity fed spring water in the world.
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shawmut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 06:57 PM
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13. Swill Bottled Water
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Native Donating Member (885 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:00 PM
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14. Anyone ever tried Voss?
Artesian water from Norway. Bought an $8.00 bottle for a gift, but never had the chance to try it. Supposed to be among the purest waters in the world.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:01 PM
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15. Aquafina tastes bitter, like ear wax.
Edited on Thu Nov-18-04 07:01 PM by SmileyBoy
It doesn't taste like water at all.

The best is Aberfoyle, from Canada.
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Malebolgia Donating Member (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:02 PM
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16. Worst bottled water = bottled water that you pay for.
Seriously now. Who pays for water? Why not drink it out of the faucet for free?
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:18 PM
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18. Fiji. I hate evian
it tastes like tin foil
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:20 PM
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19. I used to love Bourassa (sp?) Canadian
We don't get it here anymore.
I very much dislike Evian
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Nightowl_2004 Donating Member (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:21 PM
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20. ALL of them
Come on? Bottled Water!? Tap water is fine for me.
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:26 PM
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21. Aquafina is the worst because they are manufactured by Altria
which is of course the number one contributor to the Bush campaign.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 08:47 PM
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22. Yuck!
Aquafina is bottled at Pepsi plants using processed municipal water. Another soft drink giant, Coke, has entered the bottled water business with Dasani, a processed municipal water with added minerals.


I'll take some Fiji when I can get it, or Poland Spring (which I'm drinking at the moment).

I never drank bottled water when I lived in NYC, which has some of the finest tap water anywhere. NJ, on the other hand, has dreadful tap water and I can't Stand it!
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