The water conundrum

[sunshine_sieben]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in, so mods please feel free to move it. I don't really want to start the whole fluoride debate so i thought, I might find more like-minded people here.

Ok, so they started adding fluoride to our drinking water here in SE QLD about 10 months ago. I am not happy about that for many reasons, starting with the principle that I don't like to be forced to take supplements and adding to that all the possible side-effects of fluoride exposure. Whether or not it is good for my teeth is not even really the issue for me.

Anyway, back to the topic. When they started adding fluoride, I and DD stopped drinking tap water especially because I was pregnant (until then I used to drink filtered tap water). First I bought 15l plastic casks of spring water. But firstly, I was concerned about the extra waste I was creating and secondly, I'm not mad on the plasticky taste I used to detect let alone the possibility of leaching chemicals from the plastic (having said that, my water filter is made from plastic...).

So I discovered Pureau from nobles which comes in a 10l bladder within a cardboard cask. A solution that seemed much better. But then I realised that this is basically demineralised water. Not ideal in my eyes either as I feel that the minerals in our water are desirable.

Ultimately, my plan was to buy a reverse osmosis filter to remove the fluoride from my tap water. But that has the same effect of removing all the good bits along with the bad bits.
Yes, I could add a mineral supplement to my water, but that just doesn't seem like a good solution either.

Bottled water from the supermarket doesn't fulfill my endless list of requirements either, as firstly it creates waste and secondly, it's the plastic thig again!
There has to be a better solution!

I am now considering going back to filtered tap water as i feel like I am just trading one evil for the other.

So, am I the only one who is this pedantic about her water? If there are others, what do you do?

Sasa