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Bottled water worse than tap: lab (very high bacteria count)
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoOne kind of pathogen only; no mention of the heavy chemical innoculation tap water uses to get so "pure".
- hga 16y ago"[H]eavy chemical innoculation" as in the use of chlorine, "the disinfectant that keeps on killing" to the tap and beyond (try doing a search on chlorine ozone cholera peru). At the levels used, I think chlorine is both safe and a perfectly fine trade off all things considered.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSure. But people drink bottled water to avoid things like chlorine. You may call them misguided, but the article naievely neglected this population of consumers.
- hga 16y agoWell, are those bottled water vendors telling their customers "No chlorine but with all the bugs it kills!" ? Or "It's great stuff, but be sure to treat it with a rolling boil for 20 minutes before drinking"? I don't view most of them as misguided so much as misinformed; they're making assumptions that this nicely packaged stuff is clean ... when it often isn't.