Comments on: Blinged Out Water?

By: brenner

brenner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:22:59 +0000

My understanding is that reverse osmosis takes 5 gallons to produce 1 gallon of filtered water.
A better idea is to purchase an “instant hot”. You won’t be dazed or walking into walls waiting for the process. Just a pull of the small lever and 2 seconds it’s hot or cold filtered water.

By: Randy Karp

Randy Karp — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:02:03 +0000

Hi Mark!
I completely agree with your thoughts about the high profile bottled waters. And about the hazards of tap water. While reverse osmosis is certainly a better choice, this process does take the good minerals out with the bad. I beleive the healthiest means of flitration is ceramic. Dalton appears to be the best of the ceramics, produced in the UK and distributed in the U.S. According to the company: “Because a ceramic water filter relies on the old method of distillation, it does not rob the water of its natural minerals like calcium, potassium, and magnesium that are essential for a glowing health.” I’d also like your read on Tersono’s Lotus, which I recommend for cleaning fruits and vegetables and counter tops, based on lab tests I’ve reviewed. “Their claim. to super-oxygenate the water with O3( ozone) to destroy up to 99.99% of microorganisms and toxins that can sometimes find their way into tap water based on lab tests”. This ability however, is short lasting. When time permits, I’d appreciate your thoughts.

By: James

James — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:27:00 +0000

Really, I would disagree with one thing he says. Drinking water that has been through reverse osmosis is bad. I am a plumber, and in the military and work in a water plant some times. to get the proper balance of water, you want the impurities in the water itself, for instance copper, and such. If you were to drink reverse osmosis water, it would taste bland, because of all the missing minerals, also unless you put chlorine into the water, it will be the ideal swarm for bacteria.

On this base, we pump chlorine and fluoride into the water as well, which most people knows that it helps diminish cavities. Proper fluoride levels should be 1.1 mg/L or so to help fight cavities and act as a health boost for the body.

I also like to add part of my job deployed is to make reverse osmosis water, which makes it 99.9% percent pure water and 98%+ percent free of other organic matter, we will make sure it stays purified with proper amounts of chlorine but that is it. And if you were to taste that water, it would likely make you want to use some sort of crystal lite or something because of it being so flavorless without the minerals. I figured I would add my two cents.

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By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:55:52 +0000

I buy large bottles of spring water and avoid tap water whenever possible as my town’s water is fluoridated, and fluoride is in fact more toxic than lead (and only slightly less toxic than arsenic). The fact that breast milk has infinitesimally small levels of fluoride, regardless of what type of water the mother is drinking, means that the mother’s body makes a heck of an effort to keep it out of the body of her baby. If evolution decided it wasn’t good enough for growing infants, then I want no part of it either.

Christopher Bryson wrote an excellent book on the subject called The Fluoride Deception. There’s a documentary piece featuring him available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3y8uwtxrHo

Bling water is ridiculous though, as are many other bottled waters; I agree.

Great blog, Mark.

By: countrygal

countrygal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:46:10 +0000

I can get a gallon of filtered water for 40 cents at my local grocery store…I then use it to refill water bottles that my daughter & her family have conveniently left at my house when they come over (big water buyers!)
I do live in the country & have a well with a water softener attached (we have practically orange water because the iron content is so high)–however, I have also had my well water tested & our aquifer is not the best. It may be 300 feet down but you would be amazed how many farm chemicals, wastes & septic drain fields can leach over the century that this land has been farmed; the land can only filter out so much. If you think the farm chemicals are bad now, you need to research what they used before. I suggest anyone who extolls the purity of their well water to at least get it tested every few years, development draws down the aquifer with some bad consequences. Mark doesn’t preach ignorance, it’s all about knowledge. Ignorance isn’t bliss—it’s just ignorance.

By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:37:51 +0000

Yes those filters are a good plan. Many folks around these parts have a water softener for non-drinking supply and a filter for the non-softened drinking water.

But just think how much better it would taste if filtered into a $55 Swarovski Crystal bottle

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:17:22 +0000

I fill up (5) 24 oz bottles from my home water filtration system which I bought from Amway many years ago. It has a compressed charcoal filter that is replaceable and fits even the oldest filters that they have ever sold. I take these with me in an insulated bag and they are my water supply at work, in the car, and at the gym. It makes the water taste better and removes all of the contaiminents. I don’t like the chlorine taste of smell from the tap. It is one of the worlds best filters and yet it costs me less than $.25 per gallon to use it. My wife supplies her office with it too, from our home filter.

I live in Southern California and reverse osmosis is to wasteful of water resources for me to use. it wastes 2+ gallons of water for every gallon it makes. I used to have one and installed a 500 gallon horse trough to catch the overflow and it filled to over flowing in no time and I still had to deal with the waste water, which I used to water my plants, but it became to labor intensive and I just bought a great filter and left the goldfish to enjoy my horse trough.

By: Mellisa in Montana

Mellisa in Montana — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:02:25 +0000

Well, First I have to say I have never heard of Bling water, but then again I don’t get out (of Montana) much! It sounds to me that the Marketing Deptartment for Bling H20 has about as much taste as the water in the bottle. (oops did I say that out loud? )

Secondly, I’d have to say in the past few years I have really learned some important lessons in life. We have scaled down and live a very simple life without a lot of fluff (ie new cars, clothes, jewelry, expensive vacations, yada yada) And honestly I love it this way.

Our kids are learning the importance of giving back to their church, community and the world by volunteering and donating time and money to charities and world relief organizations.

So honestly, it hurts my heart to see people so lost that they can bring themselves to spend $55 on a bottle of water, when that same $55 would feed and water a family of 5 for a few months in other parts of the world.

We are very blessed to have a water source that comes straight out of the side of a mountain. So obviously I drink “tap” water but needless to say, it is very cold and fresh. I actually have to add a lemon or lime slice to liven it up a bit because it is so tasteless.

However, when we visit friends in town, and they offer a drink from their tap water, I have to say it tastes horrible. Full of chemicals and God knows whatelse. So I do have a habit of carrying refilled bottles of water from home.

I can pretty much smell and taste the difference of city tap water and bottled water. So for me personally, depending on where I was at I would probably go for bottled water even if it is just filtered tap water. But you can bet your sweet bippy I would collapse from dehydration before I shelled out my Georgies for BLING anything!

Sorry folks if I stood on my soap box so long. Just had to get it off my chest.

Yours truly,
Mellisa

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:14:29 +0000

I’m with Marilyn in that I don’t like tap water, especially from my town. The water is ultra hard, and after the water plant ‘cleans’ it, it is unbearable. A reverse osmosis is a very nice thing to have in this town. Since my apt. won’t allow me to install a RO unit, I do buy my drinking water, only 5 gallons for $1. Much better taste than the town water. And no nasty scum when using it for cooking and/or coffee…