is tap water bad for me now?

carzony

Is it true tap water is bad for you? I heard something about fluoride in it or something.. If so what the **** are you supposed to drink? :mad:

Anyone

carzony wrote: »

If so what the **** are you supposed to drink? :mad:

Beer.

hidinginthebush

No, you'll be fine. There are stricter regulations on tap water than bottled water.

edit: though there's a pretty extensive thread on fluoride in water on AH if you're looking to get hysterical over it.

Sugar saturated drinks.

The whale meat trade will kick off the economy along with the extra taxes planned

seamus

The water the comes into your toilet is cleaner than bottled water. Drink the tap water and stop listening to hysterical idiots on facebook.

Unless you live in Galway. Those poor bastards always seem to be on boil notice.

There's a similar piece of nonsense going around facebook at the moment claiming that microwaved water is less "watery" than water heated on a pan.

Quick tip: Anything you hear on Facebook which purports to be science, probably isn't. Actually, anything you see online which purports to be science has good chance of being the exact opposite.

Rubeter

seamus wrote: »

There's a similar piece of nonsense going around facebook at the moment claiming that microwaved water is less "watery" than water heated on a pan.

That's true actually, the microwaves dry out the water and for proper hydration you need water that is really wet, otherwise it just disrupts your body's ability to soak it up and makes you thirstier.

kneemos

seamus wrote: »

The water the comes into your toilet is cleaner than bottled water. Drink the tap water and stop listening to hysterical idiots on facebook.

Unless you live in Galway. Those poor bastards always seem to be on boil notice.

There's a similar piece of nonsense going around facebook at the moment claiming that microwaved water is less "watery" than water heated on a pan.

Quick tip: Anything you hear on Facebook which purports to be science, probably isn't. Actually, anything you see online which purports to be science has good chance of being the exact opposite.

Ours had a yellowish brown colour to it since the heavy rain three or four days ago. You're telling me it's cleaner than bottled water?

seamus

kneemos wrote: »

Ours had a yellowish brown colour to it since the heavy rain three or four days ago. You're telling me it's cleaner than bottled water?

Probably. Just because it's a weird colour doesn't mean it's dirty.

donegal.

kneemos wrote: »

Ours had a yellowish brown colour to it since the heavy rain three or four days ago. You're telling me it's cleaner than bottled water?

yes

Capt'n Midnight

hidinginthebush wrote: »

No, you'll be fine. There are stricter regulations on tap water than bottled water.

Acutally the council test water for more impurities than most of the private companies.


It's quite legal to bottle tap water and sell it.

It's also legal to say it's tested daily etc. because the council do that for you and all you have to do is put the results on the label Mg+ etc.

It's only illegal to claim that bottled tap water is "spring water" or "natural mineral water" other names like "still water" are grand and in the UK at least one startup has gone to the Advertising Authority to get that clarified before they literally bottled water coming out of a tap in a portacabin.


Dasani is Coke's attempt at selling tap water. Here and in the UK it had to be rebranded as "Deep river rock" because they actually couldn't bottle tap water , they screwed up and contaminated it with bromates.


Also remember Perrier ? worlds biggest brand of water, that is until they screwed up and contaminated it with benzene or some such

_rebelkid

Tap water is fine. The concentration of the flourous compounds that are put in to water are controlled to less than 0.06ppm, or 0.06mg/l. For them to get to any sizeable level of concentration in your body to warrant any change you'd have to drink and not process more than 100 litres of water a day. So no, tap water isn't dangerous.

kneemos

seamus wrote: »

Probably. Just because it's a weird colour doesn't mean it's dirty.

Because its been treated with chemicals to make it clean?

You try downing a glass of something that looks like urine.

Duggy747

The fluoride in the water is so dangerous that it'll make you vote Fianna Fail, oppose gay rights or something to that effect.

If that doesn't get you then the contrails will.

But if the contrails happen to miss you then the illumaniti will control your sheeple-like mind with mind controlagens that's found in Tayto crisps.

Jester252

I rather drink tap water than some overprice bottle water that been ship in a plastic bottle from god knows where.

Muise...

Duggy747 wrote: »

The fluoride in the water is so dangerous that it'll make you vote Fianna Fail, oppose gay rights or something to that effect.

If that doesn't get you then the contrails will.

But if the contrails happen to miss you then the illumaniti will control your sheeple-like mind with mind controlagens that's found in Tayto crisps.

True. It's scary what a homeopathic-size dose of fluoride does to people.

longhalloween

Rubeter wrote: »

That's true actually, the microwaves dry out the water and for proper hydration you need water that is really wet, otherwise it just disrupts your body's ability to soak it up and makes you thirstier.

If you want to be really healthy, you should carry your own supply of dehydrated water with you. Details on how to make it here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Own-Dehydrated-Water/

tl;dr?

Step 1: Boil water until all the liquid has been evaporated.
Step 2: Pour what's left into a water bottle.

To rehydrate:

Just add water.

old hippy

We filter our tap water here in London. It's also not great for the potatoes. The tap water, that is. Back in Cork, I can keep a bunch of peeled spuds in cold water for best part of a day and they won't turn colour.

I know a guy (friend of a friend) that claims the government puts fluoride in the water as a way to control our minds.

When I seen him posting this sort of stuff on Facebook I was sure he was taking the mick. Was fairly shocked when I found out he's deadly serious and everything is now a conspiracy apparently. Sad thing is there's tons of people agreeing.

Would be quite a smart guy too btw.

AnonoBoy

DON'T LET THE SHEEPLE TELL RUIN YOUR HEALTH. TAP WATER IS THE WORK OF THE ELITE WHO ARE TRYING TO POISON OUR MINDS (for some undisclosed reason). DON'T BE FOOLED INTO THEIR TRAP OF SHEEPLE THINKING.

THE ONLY SAFE WATER IS CONSPIRATRON WATER.

YOU CAN BUY CONSPIRATRON WATER FROM ME FOR 10 EURO A BOTTLE.

DON'T BE A SHEEP. BE SAFE. BE FREE. DRINK CONSPIRATRON.


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Rubeter

longhalloween wrote: »

If you want to be really healthy, you should carry your own supply of dehydrated water with you. Details on how to make it here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Own-Dehydrated-Water/

tl;dr?

Step 1: Boil water until all the liquid has been evaporated.
Step 2: Pour what's left into a water bottle.

To rehydrate:

Just add water.

That's brilliant, one of the comments in the link mentions storing it in a paper envelope, I wonder if there might be a market for it, I genuinely believe in this day and age you could sell a few envelopes of the stuff on-line if you gave it a grandiose name and charged a fortune.

.jacksparrow.

Tap water has birds ****e and all in it.

longhalloween

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Tap water has birds ****e and all in it.

Bottled water has been sitting inside a cave for 700 years.

Rubeter wrote: »

That's brilliant, one of the comments in the link mentions storing it in a paper envelope, I wonder if there might be a market for it, I genuinely believe in this day and age you could sell a few envelopes of the stuff on-line if you gave it a grandiose name and charged a fortune.

Wasn't there a fad of selling bottled air from Kilimanjaro at one stage?

wuzziwig

Just drink you own p1ss. You can survive in the wild and build makeshift boats and kill wild animals and stuff after drinking your own p1ss. I saw it on the TV so I know it's a fact.

wuzziwig

longhalloween wrote: »

Bottled water has been sitting inside a cave for 700 years.

Full of batsh1t.

The Backwards Man

Tap water is safe but it tastes like crap. Give me a clear crisp mouthful from a mountain spring any day.

Rubeter

longhalloween wrote: »

Wasn't there a fad of selling bottled air from Kilimanjaro at one stage?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271690/Bottled-AIR-Chinese-multimillionaire-sells-EIGHT-MILLION-cans-fresh-air-TEN-DAYS-pollution-levels-climb-record-high.html

Not quite that pure African stuff but still.
$$$$$$$

bgrizzley

FFS, cmon lads, if it wasnt for the flouride in the water, how the feck would humans have survived for the last 200,000 years?

Capt'n Midnight

Duggy747 wrote: »

But if the contrails happen to miss you then the illumaniti will control your sheeple-like mind with mind controlagens that's found in Tayto crisps.

But contrails contain Barium. And Barium Fluoride is water soluble :eek:



Seriously any Barium in the environment would be participated as Barium Sulphate, \o/ for acid rain , and it's so insoluble it's used in a Barium Meal as the safest way of ingesting a heavy metal to show on on x-rays.

Duggy747

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Seriously any Barium in the environment would be participated as Barium Sulphate, \o/ for acid rain , and it's so insoluble it's used in a Barium Meal as the safest way of ingesting a heavy metal to show on on x-rays.

You don't ingest heavy metal....









YOU LIVE IT!!

\m/ \m/

Maximus Alexander

I think we should all be really wary of dihydrogen monoxide and call for its immediate banning.

Just a couple of alarm bells are that it causes soil erosion, is a major component of acid rain, contributes to global warming, in gaseous form it can cause severe burns and it is regularly detected in cancerous tumours.

Temptamperu

Water? Never drink the stuff. Fish poop in it.

biko

Fluoride in the water isn't half as bad as chemtrails.

Rosier

There was an article somewhere re in the US they are trialling putting antidepressants in the water... thin end of a very large wedge

Water is recycled of course; meds etc can have high levels.

Here am on a private well. Never seen such hard water. Took two new kettles back to Tesco as faulty before I read up and is it the limescale preventing them working after a very short while. They don't sell non automatic kettles any more so I am heating water in the gas or range

Also there is often a smell of sulphur...

Better than mains water however

danniemcq

biko wrote: »

Fluoride in the water isn't half as bad as chemtrails.

remains of chemtrails are dropping into water resevoirs and then seeping into the water supplies.

LoonyLovegood

seamus wrote: »

The water the comes into your toilet is cleaner than bottled water. Drink the tap water and stop listening to hysterical idiots on facebook.

Unless you live in Galway. Those poor bastards always seem to be on boil notice.

There's a similar piece of nonsense going around facebook at the moment claiming that microwaved water is less "watery" than water heated on a pan.

Quick tip: Anything you hear on Facebook which purports to be science, probably isn't. Actually, anything you see online which purports to be science has good chance of being the exact opposite.

We're off boil notice out in Galway! Although I do filter it, it tastes nasty.

turbot

If you get a good water filter, the water does seem to taste better.

Since I got mine, my eyes seem blue-er, my hair is smoother, my skin is clearer.
I think filtering your water makes you more sweedish.

danniemcq

CTYIgirl wrote: »

We're off boil notice out in Galway! Although I do filter it, it tastes nasty.

years ago when Cryptosperidium (sp?) was rampant down there i was living there and after a fairly serious houseparty there was nothing left to drink and a lot of thirsty people, shops were all closed so no booze or non alcoholic drinks could be got all we had was tap water.

5 including myself drank it, 4 ended up horribly sick (one even ended up with blood.. well you know the rest) me on the other hand, no problem. From that day on i just drank the tap water and never was affected.

Same on Tory Island. was only told probably a year after starting to go out with a girl from the island that tap water wasn't good and you had to use the well water. Every other weekend for a year nearly i was drinking it with no ill effects.

Either I'm invincible or extremely lucky

mickstupp

The tap water where I live regularly smells and tastes of chlorine. It's like a swimming pool. Makes you feel sick unless its filtered. Every couple of months it seems the local council just dump a tonne of it into the supply in one go. It becomes undrinkable for a few weeks. Well... you can drink it, but last time I did I ended up feeling sick for the whole day. Ended up getting one of those Brita filter things and it's much better since then.

kneemos

Prime Time are doing a piece on Fluoride shortly for whom it may concern.

Femme_Fatale

Would boiling not get rid of the tiny bit that's in tap water?

I'm happy to learn about concerns re fluoridation from a rational source, not a bunch of fruitcakes who go on about "sheeple".

PizzamanIRL

What's the story with bottled water being dirty?

genericguy

kneemos wrote: »

Ours had a yellowish brown colour to it since the heavy rain three or four days ago. You're telling me it's cleaner than bottled water?

If its brown, drink it down. If its black, send it back.

MadsL

carzony wrote: »

Is it true tap water is bad for you? I heard something about fluoride in it or something.. If so what the **** are you supposed to drink? :mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owWMk8SQ9Hw

robindch

kneemos wrote: »

Prime Time are doing a piece on Fluoride shortly for whom it may concern.

Will they be speaking with any scientists, or will they only be airing the views of a bunch of clueless, single-issue fruitcakes?

I'm only asking as I heard on facebook that if you drink fluoridated water, yer bum falls off.

Gbear

robindch wrote: »

Will they be speaking with any scientists, or will they only be airing the views of a bunch of untrained, paranoid internet-based fruitcakes?

I heard that if you drink fluoridated water, your bum falls off.

Nononono.

Your bum stays on. It's the rest of your body that falls off.

kneemos

robindch wrote: »

Will they be speaking with any scientists, or will they only be airing the views of a bunch of clueless, single-issue fruitcakes?

I'm only asking as I heard on facebook that if you drink fluoridated water, yer bum falls off.

Not too bothered about fluoride,it's the way it comes out smelling of Chlorine and looking like urine that puts me off.

SimonQuinlank

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

What's the story with bottled water being dirty?

Read on Facebook that if you leave a bottle of water in your car on a warm day,and then drink it your head will explode.Or something along those bullshít hyperbolic lines

Muise...

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I'm happy to learn about concerns re fluoridation from a rational source, not a bunch of fruitcakes who go on about "sheeple".

well, there's your problem right there.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

1. I should be free to choose whether to consume fluoridated water or not.
2. Nothing should be added to our water that doesn't improve it's safety. This should be a principal above anything else.
3. Babies and old people don't benefit from fluoridated water as they don't have teeth.
4. RTE report said regions of the US with fluoridated water have a 50% higher incidence of hip problems than in areas without.
5. It costs 5 million euro per year. Put that money into improved dental health education and funding for dentists to go to schools and provide regular check-ups for all school children.
6. It may never be possible to quantify the adverse effects that fluoride has on certain parts of our brain, on how it may impair certain functions and so on. We know more about the workings of the universe than we do about the human brain.
7. We're one of the only countries in Europe that adds fluoride to our water supply. Since we copy pretty much everything Europe does why have we chosen not to follow suit with this?

I say this as someone who drinks tap water everyday, I use one of those filter jugs but that just gets out small bits of dirt/grit.
I honestly don't understand many people who are so in favour of it thrashing people who are against it as if it's some fringe looney hippy conspiracy crowd who only have issues with it. I kinda picture a type of Professor Frink (Simpsons) sitting there going glouben, nahh, did you realise that it occurs in some regions naturally and dentists say it helps some peoples teeth.
It's our public water supply, if I want the best quality water possible coming out of my tap a dentist wouldn't exactly be the first person I would consult on the matter.

delw

I can't wait to pay for this lovely clean odour free water

MadsL

One thing that has always baffled me however is:


Irish and British water has fluoride and US water does not.
Irish and British teeth lovely primrose shade, American teeth sparkly white.