explains a few things...

Didn´t we have a similar scare a few months ago? Except instead of prozac, it was oestrogen or progesterone in the urine from women on birth control pills that was making its way into the drinking water. It was supposedly reducing the sperm count of all the men in the area. Personally I think it´s just a huge conspiracy set up by a cabal consisiting of the CEOs of Evian, Vittel, Volvic and Perrier <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

lol. I know. I find it amusing that the government for the last couple of months has been pushing &quot;healthy living&quot; extremely hard....including &quot;you must drink 8 pints of water a day to maintain a healthy lifestyle&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Now if one were paranoid....<img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

All water is filtered to a certain extent. Spring water uses the ground to do it, while city water has its methods. Most water drank in the US is recycled water. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

i read somewere about the female hormone in the water system. Apparantly, no bull sh*t here, but some guy who drank massive amounts of water a day started growing breasts! I just couldn´t stop laughing! Wheather it was true or not is a different story all together though. On the subject. It really doesn´t surprise me. The concentration would be very very low though. Besides there is probably a whole load of other stuff in water we don´t know about.

simple fact is, that everything you take during the day, will one way or the other end up in the watersupply, this happens everywhere, no exception. Fact is, the purification procedures are good, but not perfect, the only sure fire way of having perfectly clean water, is to destillize (boil) it, then you know for sure your water is unharmed and p-erfectly pure, just plain H2O. but since that would soon be the end of us (the calcium deposits in the water give us enough Calcium for the bones to grow and to keep the circulation system from destroying itself due to high pressure (Calcium strengthens the structural integrity of the Veighns)) it is highly likely you will find stuff in pour drinking water that really doesn´t belong there.

The BEST water is from a well that is out in the country away from polutions. Crisp and cold. Best drink around. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Note. In the city of Fayetteville, Ga, our watrew system draws half from wells. The minerals are so high, that it literally eats metal. The tub drains , commode handles that are metal have to be replaced twise yearly. Edited by - Finalday on 8/9/2004 5:25:27 PM

I always enjoy reading about whats floating around in my drinking water, but you havent lived untill you have visited a water treatment facillity and find out the amounts of pathogens and pestcides that run off into the water supply. Just one of the many benifits of living in a agricultural dependant community. &quot;I fly like an eagle, and I drink Old Crow.&quot;

geeze fd, and you drink it? O_o

Bah, everything is toxic these days <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

Hehe, thats why we only drink water that is 99.9999% pure <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> (I dont mean from a bottle, I mean having a $3,000 water purifier and sofner. We test it every year or so) Edited by - banjokazooie2000 on 8/10/2004 12:52:24 AM

So that´s why I´ve been so happy lately ? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

oh and here´s another thing the residents of london are drinking water that has passed through around eight ppl in places further up the thames Edited by - Gowserpaul on 8/10/2004 1:03:20 AM

Cheers Gowserpaul, you make my tap water so much more appealing now <img src=smilies/icon_smile_dead.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

That´s one of the reasons why I prefer beer - it says right on the label that they´re using only the &quot;purest water&quot;. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Life is sexually transmitted

Drinking not entirely pure water is actually good for you, I´ve been drinking water from a hole in the ground for years, it was lead to tank in which I´m sure dead birds and bird droppings could be found, a few minths ago, we lived on a farm for a few months, got water from a stream, lots of iron in it, as well as it has been flowing over baboon poo, bok poo and who knows what else <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I rarely get anything worse than a cold, I think its linked with the water, my family rarely get sick as well

On the flip side, you could also be infested with nasties, like tapeworm, round worms, various bugs and mites/tics. I would certainly not advise drinking water without some form of purification, as to be honest, you would be shocked what they find in people these days! You should at least boil the water before drinking it...