Did you know? bottled water facts...

I don't normally post random threads but i just can't stop thining out this.....

I was listening to 774 the other day. I know, turning into my mother! :rolleyes:

Anyway, they had a guy on who stated the following;

It takes 2L of water and 250ml of oil to make 1L of bottled water. :o

AND 80% of plastic water bottles are NOT recylclable. :o I guess i am naive, but i pressumed most of them were recylable. Should look a little closes i guess.:redface:

I couldn't believe it, In a country with relatively pristin water, i realised i have been sucked in. So i am off the bottled water, just ordered the family a sigg water bottle each. Can't wait to get them. :dance:

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In a country with relatively pristin water:dance:

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Shame about the fluoride. (google fluoride IQ, fluoride poison etc etc)

When we buy our own place we will be getting a reverse osmossis filter - then we will drink the tap water!

We're on a farm with tank water Kitten, so i don't pay alot of attention to that issue, although i know i should! There are alot of things i should really pay more attention too!
ETA- i was just doing a bit fo reading and apparently alot of bottled water begins as tap water anyway! :rolleyes:

We use a britta filter and reusable water bottles (or glasses at home lol). It costs about 5c for a glass of water and it tastes great.
On the occasions that I drink bottled water it tastes just like tap water to me. Funnily enough tap water needs to meet standards regarding chemicals in the water but bottled/mineral water doesn't so some bottled waters might have more yuck in them.
I'm not too stressed about flouride. I grew up without it and my teeth are putting my dentist's children through school (probably paying for holidays to the Swiss alps too :doh: )

wow didnt know that!
They know how to market it well hey! I think some bottled water tastes awfull, especially mt franklin it taste like plastic. We have some at work which is from Fiji and it has 98% silica and its really nice and smooth!

We have the SIGG bottles. Mine is a cool but doesnt hold much water so am constantly refilling!

i buy bottled water cos we live in the sticks, and the water is foul out here! seriously foul!

we buy the 15L dispenser bottles, and recyle them through the delivery company. we buy bottled water when out, and then recycle the bottle when it's empty - the bottles have to be pretty much knackered before they're turfed to the recyle bin.

i also have a HUGELY sensitive stomach, and i find i get ill with tap water (or tank water) - everything we use for cooking is filtered through the kettle filter first - it's slow, but i'd rather not have the upset tummy!

wasn't there a thing about this on 60 mins about 2 months ago? it turned me off buying bottled water big time.

We have a rainwater tank and drink tap water, which I boil and let cool down to drink.

we;re did you buy your sigg bottle from Ange?

Most bottled water is just filtered tap water anyway so just a waste of money really.

That is until your town decides to make the tap water a huge percentage of bore water and even after going through the Brita filter you can taste how gross it is. I might just be swapping to bottled water but will keep my eyes open for recyclable containers.

We have always been buying the casks of spring water but recently decided to just boil tap water and put it in a jug in the fridge. I can tell you that it tastes so much better! We boil the kettle all the time to fill up baby bottles anyway. Plus boiling kills any impurities and filters it better than anything else I think.

Yeha we have a 7L britta bench top filter which i use at home, but if i was out and about without a drink, i would never hesitate to grab a bottle of water. Have re-thunk that now!

An online climbing store Maz, was the best price, will find the details for ya......

In country NSW we have the most DISCUSTING water you can imagine. I grew up on Melbourne tap water and LOVED it but the water here is just not drinkable. I am tempted to get one of those filters that go on the tap but for the moment buying bottled water just seems the easier option!

We are on tank water now. We do filter it through a bench top system as the gutters on the house are a bit cruddy, so just want to be safe. We do buy bottle when we are out and about, just so slack at remembering to fill bottles.

Had no issue with fluoride when we were on town water in Melbourne, it was only just introduced to our last town. It is the one thing I don't like about tank water, the lack of fluoride.

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An online climbing store Maz, was the best price, will find the details for ya......

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Me too Ange?

Boiling water! Who woulda thunk Danni! I had a giggle at you and your dentist's children Chlo, I think that fluoride has its good points. But if you wanted to know that your water was pure...sometimes the simplest answer is right on the kitchen bench hey...

I got a sigg bottle for Mother's day... love it!!

We have been on britta filtered water for a few years now. Tastes better to us! :)

It's called cliffhanger, based in Melbourne. A search should lead you there.

Missed this the first time 'round... very interesting!

Very interesting! I can't believe that most people can't see how insane it is to pay that much for water. I've always thought it was a bit of a crock. However, if I'm stuck out somewhere without a drink, I will buy water before anything else, so I guess I'm glad I have the choice. But I try to take my own drink of water with me most places.

I must be lucky to live in Melbourne, I drink water out of the tap all day long ;). LOL at your dentist comments Chloe, so true. Whatever else it is or isn't, fluoride is great for teeth :D If you drink only bottled water, and have no fluoride supplementation, you are almost guaranteed to have dental problems!!!

Our tap water is gross. I have tried boiling, filtering, boiling a second time... not to mention if your out anywhere that wont have happened first. Even our bath water looks a murky yellow when you run it.

We don't have town water where I live so don't have the chemicals. Our water is collected off our roof and is stored in a very very old well unfortunately it is plumbed in a way that it pumps from the bottom where the water is a bit yuk.

We have a separate tank which collects the run off from the wash house (separate from the house) thats our drinking water. Its ok from the tap attached to the well but I still like the dirt filtered.

We have one brita filter in our fridge but have a porcelin (sp?) water filter on the bench and the water that comes from that is sooo good we just clean the filter candles every so often. It retails for around $140 if you go to farmers/country markets you can ususally find one.
I like these better as I always wonder about things growing in the Brita filters even though we replace them regularly.

Interesting - I just emailed DH about SIGG bottles after seeing this thread (I couldnt' remember what they were called when he bought his bottle) and he said he didn't go with SIGG because it isn't truly BPA free, it's just that they don't leach BPA. He ended up going with Klean Kanteen coz it has no BPA in the lining.

But SIGG have such cool designs! LOL. I'd be happy with it tho I think, so long as we're not ingesting any of the BPA. Am thinking of getting them for the kids.

Oh and on the topic of water... we were having neverfail water delivered for a long time... but now we just have a brita filter on the tap. Much cheaper! And can definitely taste the difference between the filtered and straight out of the tap.

We've also used the brita bottles that are like sports bottles with a filter in them. Very useful when out and you need to refill with tap water. Can't say I looked at what plastic it is tho :/

I totally agree with tap water as the most environmentally friendly option. And unless your pipes are really nasty, it's probably a very pure product. I used to drink tap water all the time. I did use a Brita filter, because sometimes our water tasted a little funny (I suspect old pipes) and the filter got rid of that. Then our government decided to put fluoride into the water.

I just HAD to say something about the fluoride is good for teeth issue. Can't help myself.
Firstly, even if it was good for my teeth, I value my brain more than my teeth.
Secondly, someone mentioned something about not growing up with fluoride and now putting their dentist's children through school. DH grew up with fluoride and has really good dental hygiene. I have good dental hygiene, too and grew up without fluoride in the water and without any type of supplementation. My teeth, although I do have a couple of fillings, are in very good nick. So individual siituations don't really mean that much. The statistical difference between fluroide in the drinking water or not only applies to milk teeth and if you compare areas with the same socio-economic status, the difference is an average of only 1/2 filling per mouth. There is NO difference in the state of the adult teeth.
So, I am very upset at the government 'forcing me to do something that is bad for the environment, ie. buy water. I try to make the best choice and buy water in a cask, rather than a bottle. And of course I do check the level of fluoride in the water I buy (you often have to get into contact with the manufacturer) to make sure it does not contain fluoride at similar levels as tap water.
Sorry, getting off my soap box now.
Sasa

Can someone tell me about Sigg bottles please :)
Why are they better than others?

Can someone tell me about Sigg bottles please :)
Why are they better than others?

Nae ... i so agree !!
We have been buying the Brita filters for years & i often wonder about them :rolleyes:
My IL's & SIL have one of those ceramic urns too sitting on their kitchen benchs which i'm sure they bought somewhere near to their country town. The water just tastes so much nicer & the water is cool in it in Summer :D
Would love to buy one but don't have the room on our tiny kitchen bench.

There's a place at Silvan opposite the dam that makes/sells the ceramic water purifiers - I'm getting one for my new kitchen :)

SIGG are great cause they have a very long guarantee and as they are metal, they tend not to break, just dent :) Plus also dual metal so some insulation. There's swiss-made or chinese-made to choose from.

I have a selection of tupperware water bottles, I like the design, easy to hold, and the twist-off end is great for snacks or keys or some coins etc. Plus great colours!

They don't leach chemicals Brontide. We love them in this house, we all have one. It helps us to save money because we always take them with us when we go out!

Thanks for the info re the Sigg bottles.

Here's some good news http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/foru...57#post1878657

we ended up getting a bench top reverse osmossis filter - $500 - never need to buy bottles and worry about flouride again!!

HERE is a small SIGG flash that I bought recently... fits perfectly on the drink holder on my pram... i make sure I fill it up and pop in on the pram before each outing... this has SIGGnificantly cut down the amount of bottled water I've needed to buy when out and about. This one was made in Switzerland... I found a small shop off Bourke St Melb CBD that has a large range of them. Going to get some more as I can afford it.