I have a reverse osmosis filter in the basement, connected to the municipal water, with a tap in the kitchen. Only use that for drinking water, coffee, tea, etc. No chlorine or mineral deposits. Great flavour.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:09 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I mostly drink tap water when I'm not drinking coffee. A touch of lemon > helps to kill the metallic taste from chlorination. > > I only buy bottled water under two circumstances: > > 1. During long distance travel via automobile my refilled water bottles > sometimes run out. If there's no convenient way to refill them with safe > water, I'll buy bottled water when I stop for gas. > > 2. I still use distilled water from the grocery store to fill my steam iron. > > I recycle the bottles, but usually I'll refill a bottle several times > before doing so. > > > On 5/25/2015 4:54 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >> I filter our water at home and at the office, and we fill water >> bottles with the filtered water. It is just fine. If one is so >> inclined, one can add a drop of flavor to the water. >> >> When we visited Switzerland, I was amused to see the locals filling >> empty Perrier and Evian bottles with local tap water from the public >> fountains. >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel J. >>>> Matyola >>>> Sent: 25 May 2015 21:23 >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> Subject: PESO: Food for Thought >>>> >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18027589 >>>> >>> >>> I agree - don't buy bottled water, unless you're in the wilds of Ethiopia >>> or >>> similar. >>> >>> A few years ago I was in a taxi in France which went past a >>> water-bottling >>> plant (this one: >>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%C3%A9zac_%28eau_min%C3%A9rale%29). The >>> taxi >>> driver told me that the water comes out of the ground naturally >>> carbonated, >>> but for health and safety reasons they have to take all the bubbles out, >>> clean the water, then put all the bubbles back in again. I now have a >>> picture in my mind of billions of bubbles, each in their own tiny little >>> pigeonhole waiting to put back in the water, with tweezers. >>> >>> Similarly, when I asked at a nearby brewery where they get their water >>> from, >>> they told me "the Thames" (meaning the Thames Water Authority - tap >>> water, >>> in other words). But they clean it and then program into it the specific >>> mineral composition of the source they want to imitate when making >>> particular styles of beer. >>> >>> Who'd 'a thought? >>> >>> B >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
