Yep, all boils down to profits. The City of San Antonio told people that if they didn't want to drink the water, buy bottle water.
can rain barrel water be "bad"?
How foolish... then they are faced with the water bottle disposal problem. That is govt! Big or small...
And it may be getting worse in the future.
actually about 85-90% of the bottled water (particularly the cheap brands) contain fluoride--you really have to read the labels--smart water (and its counterpart vitamin water), evian, icelandic, etc. are really the only ones treated by reverse osmosis....and that's the only process that will remove fluoride (its a small ion).
If they don't care about the quality of the drinking water (and now they pour chloramides, etc. into the mix, so I know that they don't)--I really doubt they give a hoot (to put it mildly) about plastic water disposal problems either.
I still buy bottled water for work, etc, but I buy smart water or icelandic now, if I do.
Debbie
I drink vitamin water a lot.
I do too--it tastes like the kool-aid we drank as kids.
;)
It sure does!
I'm wondering if during the summer when there's no rain to fill the tank, I could fill it with city water, let it set, and hopefully the chlorine would dissipate. Wouldn't be as good as rainwater, but better than pouring fresh city water on plants.
chlorine actually dissipates pretty quick--if Austin's adding chloramides (and I imagine they are) that won't
well, I may just try it...
And what effect would chloramides have on plants?
I'd be much more concerned about the effects of chloramines and chloramides on myself than the plants....google is a wonderful tool