CH>  On Monday September 16 1996, Roy J. Tellason of (1:270/615)
 CH> 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...
 CH> Carbon rods in water? Carbon is black, water is the universal 
 CH> solvent, add EMF as a catalyst... I don't wonder that it turned 
 CH> black rather quickly.
We're talking about carbon rods which were yanked out of D size flashlight 
batteries,  maybe a little under a quarter inch in diameter and two inches 
long or so.  I think that if they'd diminished in size all that much I would 
have noticed.  Plus,  before it got to that point the water was rather 
ey...
 CH> This is not to say there isn't a lot of garbage in tap water, 
 CH> however. There is, and I prefer drinking distilled water, as a 
 CH> result. Bottled water is most often just tap water run through 
 CH> a filter. Only the filter manufacturer really knows how well it 
 CH> really filters. The bottler just takes their word for it! 
My father at one point worked for a place that did bottled water in the NYC 
area,  and they used one heck of a filter cartridge.  It took 2 - 3 quarts of 
water just to *wet* the darn thing...
 CH> So, I prefer distilled. At least then, most metals are out of 
 CH> it, and all organisms no matter how small, are dead from the 
 CH> heat.
Properly distilled water shouldn't have any metals or organisms in it.
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