Philadelphia tap water regularly wins championship marks among
municipal
water systems for the purity and safety of its water. It derives its
water from the local groundwater of Eastern Pennsylvania, which I
find
delicious. It's delicious when it comes out of a spring and
bottled by
Wissahickon, and it's also delicious when it flows downstream and
comes
out of a Philadelphia citizen's tap.
The only thing you're ever likely to run into with Philly tapwater
is an
occasional chlorine smell, if the system was concerned about an
attractive condition for bacterial contamination. (If the Perrier Co.
experiences a similar potential-contamination condition, it <a> won't
tell you, <b> won't do anything and <c> will charge you more for its
water, without additives, than Coke will for its water with
additives.
More money for marketing hype!)
If you are disturbed by a temporary chlorine smell, chill your
tapwater.
Heating water brings out the chlorine odor dramatically; chilling it
makes the odor go away. Chlorine is not a contaminant; it is a
treatment
agent harmless at low doses.
I am increasingly disturbed by the shameless marketing of the earth's
most basic resource, water. I find in local stores water that has
been
shipped in fossil-fuel-based containers from 8,000 miles from Fiji,
burning fossil fuels all the way. And the end result is a
Philadelphian
drinks water from Fiji instead of water from Philadelphia. What
damaging, earth-hating baloney! Let us all resolve to drink local
water,
starting today. Forget all the silly marketing hype about bottled
water,
wherein private capitalists rely on you to believe them without
checking
a word of their facts, ever, when they disparage municipal water.
-- Tony West
Vivianne T. Nachmias wrote:
> bottled water is usually transported of course using gasoline! to
> faraway, e.g. Maine water to us or the south, Appalachian water
to the
> north, etc. as probably it seems purer if from some far off country
> place... (one guy up north, started a toxic waste dump, and just
put
> it on his meadow, hence it went into the ground water in that
bit of
> country..)
>
> actually PHILA water is very careflly monitored and only might be
> dangerous right after a heavy storm, when the sewer system gets
> overloaded... but it tastes better MUCH after boiling, we find.
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