is tap water bad for me now?

carzony · 07-10-2013 12:21PM #1

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 · 07-10-2013 12:21PM

carzony wrote: »

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

Beer.

hidinginthebush · 07-10-2013 12:22PM

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.

07-10-2013 12:23PM

Sugar saturated drinks.

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

seamus · 07-10-2013 12:27PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:33PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:34PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:35PM

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. · 07-10-2013 12:36PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:41PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:41PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:42PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:43PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:44PM

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

Muise... · 07-10-2013 12:46PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:46PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:48PM

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.

07-10-2013 12:52PM

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 · 07-10-2013 12:54PM

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Rubeter · 07-10-2013 12:55PM

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. · 07-10-2013 12:56PM

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

longhalloween · 07-10-2013 12:58PM

.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 · 07-10-2013 01:01PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:01PM

longhalloween wrote: »

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

Full of batsh1t.

The Backwards Man · 07-10-2013 01:05PM

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

Rubeter · 07-10-2013 01:10PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:16PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:18PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:26PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:33PM

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 · 07-10-2013 01:35PM

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

is tap water bad for me now?

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