From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Plus studies have found that tap water has less of a bacteria count than
bottled.  Must be those hearty foreign germs 

http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/rel-archive/water.htm
In a study published in the March issue of the Archives of Family Medicine,
a journal of the American Medical Association, researchers compared the
bacterial content and fluoride levels of 57 samples of bottled water with
tap water from each of Cleveland's four water treatment plants.

"Only three bottled waters ... had fluoride levels within the range
recommended by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency," according to
James Lalumandier, a CWRU assistant professor of dentistry, and Leona W.
Ayers of OSU's College of Medicine and Public Health. The other 54 bottles
fell short of the recommended range of 0.80 to 1.30 milligrams of fluoride
per liter.

All Cleveland tap water samples, however, were not only within the accepted
range but also scored very near the optimal level of 1.00 milligrams per
liter.

Bacterial counts in the four tap water samples varied only slightly, from
0.2 to 2.7 bacterial colonies per milliliter. In the bottled water,
bacterial counts ranged from less than 0.01 to 4,900 colonies per
milliliter. Six bottled waters had bacteria counts of 1,500 to 4,900
colonies per milliliter.

"One of the reasons people choose to drink bottled water instead of
tap water is because of the perceived purity of bottled water," the
researchers observe, and indeed, 39 samples of bottled water were found to
be purer than the tap water. However, 15 samples of bottled water had
significantly higher bacteria levels than the tap water. Of these 15, the
bacteria counts were more than twice as high as the most contaminated tap
water sample and almost 2,000 times higher than the purest tap water
sample.





"Mark"  wrote in message news:43fe223d$1{at}w3....
> That's not true Monte, I've never bought a bottle of water from any
> country of origin at all, let alone France -- I have a perfectly good tap
> right in the kitchen 
>
> "Monte Davis"  wrote in message
> news:9cvrv1de2n4rr4q8jh2shckq9c7qbscegj{at}4ax.com...
>> "Mark"  wrote:
>>
>>>I've read a lot of "logical" input on it, but I'm not
in the mood for
>>>logic
>>>on this one, it's just a adverse gut feeling that won't go away no matter
>>>what.
>>
>> That gut feeling comes from eagerly swallowing so much guff from your
>> mullahs -- I mean, Republican thought leaders -- over the last five
>> years.
>>
>> As a matter of fact and rational policy, the DPW deal bothers me not
>> at all. Omygawd, Japanese buy Rockefeller Center and MGM -- devious
>> inscrutable Nip-ness will infiltrate our culture! Omygawd, CNOOC bids
>> for Unocal -- oil will stop being a fungible commodity! Omygawd, even
>> 110% Americans are daily tricked into eating yogurt and drinking
>> bottled waters from a  FRENCH company!
>>
>> See, Mark, when people spend years chanting nonsense about "clash of
>> civilizations" and "Islamofascism" and "9/11
changed everything" and
>> "national security justifies anything," they shouldn't
be surprised
>> when it sinks in... even in their own guts.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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