On Monday September 16 1996, Roy J. Tellason of (1:270/615) wrote to Elvis 
Hargrove:
 RJT> I had to keep adding water,  and of course the concentration of the
 RJT> "stuff" that was in the tap water I was using kept getting higher and
 RJT> higher as the water itself was used up.  Turned *BLACK* after a 
ile...
 RJT> I still don't tend to drink all that much tap water even to this day...
Carbon rods in water? Carbon is black, water is the universal solvent, add 
EMF as a catalyst... I don't wonder that it turned black rather quickly.
This is not to say there isn't a lot of garbage in tap water, however. There 
is, and I prefer drinking distilled water, as a result. Bottled water is most 
often just tap water run through a filter. Only the filter manufacturer 
really knows how well it really filters. The bottler just takes their word 
for it! So, I prefer distilled. At least then, most metals are out of it, and 
all organisms no matter how small, are dead from the heat.
RYL,
    Chris
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