aquafina

[Varney Rae]

..fancy water. It'll be cosco brand kirkland water for me.

[Leviathan]

I've done TDS / conductivity tests on our tap water and bottled water as well as RO/DI water for work. Our tap water is shows about 16ppm of TDS, bottle water and RO/DI water shows pretty close to zero. From what I remember the average around North America is around 200ppm. I've done this for work , fuel cells don't like water with impurities especially conductive impurities.

The funny thing is that its quite possible alot of that bottle crap is bad for you. The standard off the shelf stuff from canadian springs is just RO/DI water. A few engineers here did alot of research on it. To top it all off there is a good chance it isn't good for you as well. Deionized water lacks all minerals, its pure which means that when you drink it, it has the ability to strip the minerals from your body. When you go pee, the minerals go with it.

As far as flouride goes, that is actually added to the tap water for our teeth, as far as how healthy it really is I'm sure there is a lot of research out there. I would be more weary of waters without trace amounts of minerals such as salts. You get sodium and other stuff from those salts, thats why they are there.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by Big Bank Hank

aquafina and evian are the worst for bottled water, having the most most amount of fluoride. there should be no fluoride in water since it is lethal for you, and both have way too much salt. dasani though has no fluoride but is just filtered water, and there was a lawsuit in europe over dasani just bottling tap water. montclair and aberfoyle springs and kirkland have lowest salt and no fluoride at all. I think i know too much about water lol

they put flouride in tap water you numbskull! it helps your teeth.

ps. sodium chloride is salt, not just sodium. go back to school.

[Leviathan]

^who said that salt was sodium?

I was talking about salts in general. I don't know anyone who takes pure sodium since i was under the impression that it is fairly unstable. So my next assumption is that it would come from other things like salt.

I'm not much of a chemist since my back ground is in Electrical Engineering

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

^who said that salt was sodium?

sorry, that was someone in another thread that was discussing this same topic.

but c'mon...those people that are claiming that there is so much salt in aquafina water that it makes you more thirsty. that just seems ridiculous to me.

[Leviathan]

Thats ok I found it amusing too :)

Originally Posted by Sidekick

sorry, that was someone in another thread that was discussing this same topic.

but c'mon...those people that are claiming that there is so much salt in aquafina water that it makes you more thirsty. that just seems ridiculous to me.

[sidekick]

i just bought a big litre of aquafina water yesterday (i like the bottle and refill it and use it as a water bottle) and i noticed that it said this:

dissolved mineral salts <10 p.p.m
flouride 0.03 p.p.m

parts per million people. MILLION. i'm sure the ammount of salt doesn't make you thirsty and i'm willing to bet there's more flouride in toothpaste than in this water.

[stephen_c]

^
that's what i do too.
buy any bottled water,
refill the bottle at the water cooler @work.