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Karen ([personal profile] karen2205) wrote2007-07-25 09:20 pm

Flood water

Am I right in thinking that flood water could be drunk if it was filtered and then purified with water purifying tablets/solution?

I'm shocked that bottled water isn't suitable for babies. You'd have thought at least one manufacturer of bottled water would bottle water with sufficiently low trace elements that it could be used for babies.

I'm not surprised at people hoarding water/taking more than their 'fair' share. Water is such a essential resource that people are going to fight about it if they've not got enough. Human nature, the survival instinct and all that. The time to be stockpiling water is at some point when there is no imminent danger of its loss.

[identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
As regards drinking flood water - yes, it could, if you don't have access to a source of heat to boil it.

Some bottled waters are safe - Chiltern Hills, for instance, is basically taken from the same source as tap water in Hertfordshire (i.e. artesian wells in the chalk). And there's one bottled water produced by Coca-Cola that is just bottled tap water! But rather than issuing a long list of which bottled waters would be safe and which wouldn't, it's simpler to just say "don't use bottled water to make up baby formula". In theory if you put it through a good quality water filter such as Brita it would filter out the harmful minerals. It's one of those situations where I'm heartily glad I breasteed though.

[identity profile] topbit.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
With Added Benzine!
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Re: water filters

[identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow super speedy spam!

Re: water filters

[identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Scientifically inaccurate spam at that. Shampoo science at its worst.

[identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Evian and Highland Spring are other brands.

[identity profile] jojomojo.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, I thought Dasani got withdrawn in the UK once they found out about that whole bottled-tap-water thing ;-)

[identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I've seen it for sale in some places (mostly railway stations) - but yes, it did stir up a bit of controversy at the time. I just couldn't remember its name!

[identity profile] evath.livejournal.com 2007-07-26 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
i'm fairly sure the newspapers saying it would kill you hurt sales. Not sure how they made tap water unfit for sale though...
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[identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com 2007-07-26 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Some shops get hold of it: imported from France, where it actually is mineral water from an artesian source.
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[personal profile] lovingboth 2007-07-26 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Stuff sold as 'table water' - most of the supermarkets have some 'own brand' version - is tap water. Dasani just happened to be picked on.