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What water do you drink? A lot of bottled water comes from tax supported municipal water sources through water rights loopholes, so you could be paying more jus

What water do you drink? A lot of bottled water comes from tax supported municipal water sources through water rights loopholes, so you could be paying more just to drink similar water. Unfortunately, I feel like this comment encapsulates the current state of the western world in a nutshell: Let’s build a new complex system around bottling plastic, delivery trucks, with competing brands for sale at 10x the price instead of publicly maintained aqueducts and pipes that have been used successfully since Roman times, and advocating for rigorous standards and fixing issues at the source. Bottling water doesn’t scale and has significantly more waste (C02 from trucking diesel exhaust and plastic)

j0hnyl 4y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but for a couple hundred bucks you can get a Berkey filter that very effectively removes things like flouride, etc.
- armitron 4y ago
  Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD https://archive.ph/ixmXD The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in. "We also cut open a pair of Black Berkey filters to see how they are constructed and to look for evidence that, as Berkey marketing claims, they contain “at least” six different filtering elements. We found that though the Berkey filters are larger and denser than filters from Brita and 3M Filtrete, they appear to share their filtration mechanisms: activated charcoal impregnated with an ion-exchange resin."
  - j0hnyl 4y ago
    I've used one for a while and it's amazing. You can taste the difference. You can put water with food coloring/dye through the filter and it will come out clear and delicious. Brita pales in comparison. Granted, I was not aware of the certification stuff and I suppose that could mean some of their claims are misleading, but I've been very happy with their product.
reducesuffering 4y ago
Bottled water is still going to have plastic inside it like the problem in the title. Reminder that humans have only been drinking plastic for the last 100 years of our existence. This could be having far reaching consequences.

j0hnyl 4y ago

Not the person you're replying to, but for a couple hundred bucks you can get a Berkey filter that very effectively removes things like flouride, etc.

armitron 4y ago
Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD https://archive.ph/ixmXD The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in. "We also cut open a pair of Black Berkey filters to see how they are constructed and to look for evidence that, as Berkey marketing claims, they contain “at least” six different filtering elements. We found that though the Berkey filters are larger and denser than filters from Brita and 3M Filtrete, they appear to share their filtration mechanisms: activated charcoal impregnated with an ion-exchange resin."
- j0hnyl 4y ago
  I've used one for a while and it's amazing. You can taste the difference. You can put water with food coloring/dye through the filter and it will come out clear and delicious. Brita pales in comparison. Granted, I was not aware of the certification stuff and I suppose that could mean some of their claims are misleading, but I've been very happy with their product.

reducesuffering 4y ago

Bottled water is still going to have plastic inside it like the problem in the title. Reminder that humans have only been drinking plastic for the last 100 years of our existence. This could be having far reaching consequences.