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Let's have a discussion on water. How do you prefer to drink water?
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No.6665
If I'm sweating I prefer refrigerated water, otherwise I drink it at room temperature. Sometimes I put cucumber or lemon slices in my water.
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No.6667
commiefornia here , i drink spring water + occasionally reverse osmosis water
tap water is absolutely disgusting
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No.6670
>>6647
>2015
>not mixing your hydrogen and oxygen together right before you drink it
super-pleb
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No.6773
>>6670
Look at this guy. He's so rich he can run a fusion reactor at a net loss just to have fresh water.
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No.6775
>>458
>hot springs AK
Hot springs is okay, but there is better out there.
They actually give annual taste awards for tap water with Big Sky Montana winning this year. Though Louisville Kentucky has the title with 3 of them.
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No.6815
>>6773
>fusion reactor
>not using half your utility budget to electrolyze bottled water and recombine it immediately afterward.
It's like you don't afraid of water contaminants.
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No.6823
>>6670
I prefer chilled water, so I allow it to combine, then remove the excess residual heat energy.
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No.6851
My favorite water is from a backwoods stream in the middle of nowhere. I prefer to drink straight from the source, but at the risk of getting my ass blown out by giardia I use a charcoal gravity filter.
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No.6930
Do those brita things even do anything useful? I guess I should get one since it's better than nothing.
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No.6965
>>6930
It's a stack filter with activated charcoal. So, sort of.
It takes out a lot of particles (there shouldn't be many), and any reactive crap binds with the charcoal.
The best reason to get a Brita type filter is to run cheap vodka through it. If you're not going to do that, for whatever reason, they're only slightly less useful.
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No.7001
Who the absolute dick brought this thread back…
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No.7018
>>6965
I live in a shitty place where they chlorinate the water, so I consider the Brita to be pretty damn useful considering I can never seem to get over the fucking taste.
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No.7021
>>1929
It's not just for your teeth… Fluoride is needed for calcium binding in your bones
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No.7040
I prefer to gather a huge gallon or so and drink it throughout the day. If not I'm usually refilling the same cup 11 times. This comes from the tap of course, sometimes it tastes awful, but I drink it anyway.
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No.7041
>>7040
Right with you.
I went to a convenience store and admired their selection of thermally insulated soda cups. They had them in a convenient half gallon size.
Darn things seem to keep the water cold with just a little ice for a bit more than 5 hours.
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No.7065
Lindsay, California here.
Our water is delicious, but deemed "unpottable". Not because there's anything wrong with it, but because the same lines that run to houses also run to the fields and trees, so they can't put any additives into it.
I typically fill a plastic jug halfway, put it on its side, and freeze it overnight. In the morning, I fill it the rest of the way up and take it with me so I have cold water all day.
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No.9766
always trying to find springwater that doesn't have much fluoride content. I hate fluoride.
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No.12017
>>6642
You would be surprised how much truth there is to Anons statement.
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No.12018
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No.12019
>>12017
Good fucking god I made that post back in 2015 and it still has a (You) next to it, wtf 8chan?
True, though, fluoride in water tastes like shit.
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No.12020
I can only drink cold water. If I drink roomtemp water I get nauseous.
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No.12022
>not drinking it straight from the spigot
lot of plebs in this thread
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No.12024
Does anyone know why people drink Evian water?
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No.12025
>>3198
+1
also essentia and Icelandic glacia is pretty good.
At home I have a Pur filter system on my faucet and fill all my jugs and Deer Park containers with it.
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No.12026
>>6641
>it's the fluoride
>not the rampant usury
lel, okay. Either way, well water is the cleanest water I have ever had. I feel bad for anyone who hasn't had the chance to experience the joy of well water.
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No.12031
>>12022
>implying Swedish tap water isn't filled with estrogen in an attempt to make everyone gay
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No.12054
>>12026
I'm with you man, I grew up on delicious well water. Then I moved to a big city with the worst water I've ever had and now I'm a slave to bottled water.
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No.12055
Turns out that %80+ of tap water has plastic microfibers, mostly municipal water, but even some well water tested had plastic microfibers.
The plastic microfibers, when ingested give us a direct dose of xenoestrogens. This will only get worse as the plastic continues to break down into smaller particles, when it's on the nanoscale it will be able to penetrate cells directly, which will resume in numerous forms of cancer.
The plastic they're just now finding may only be the result of plastic waste produced back in the 60's and 70's, with the volume of plastic produced and disposed of these days, it will be magnitudes worse 20-30 years from now, since plastic is even being found when testing the AIR.
No filter can completely eliminate plastic from water or air. Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
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No.12252
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No.12260
>>12252
they look OK I guess? Any good filter will be steel to start, I'm planning on getting an RO system, I'm not sure if that's the best route but if anyone has any reason why I shouldn't that isn't parroted by a water filter salesman let me know.
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No.12261
>>3517
Same here.
Zephyrhills and Deerpark bottle their shit from springs all over Florida that also supply local water systems. It's hilarious that people around here pay for it.
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No.12264
>>12252
Activated charcoal makes that sizzling sound when first wet. Those pores are literally miles of surface area for chemicals to stick to. Use chemical treated city water so bacteria (not bad) doesn't gum up the pores early.
RO membranes are again miles of surface area wrapped into a tube. AC treated water is forced across the membrane at a constant wash ratio of 1 gallon produced for 5-7 gallons down the drain.
Third option is the zero system, or mixed bed ion exchange resins. These are quickly exhausted, almost gimmicky. Big companies have services to regenerate the expensive material. Resins also smell of fish, but water is nice.
Water softener swaps out Ca and Mg for potassium. The bag of potassium will set off a radiation detector.
UV will sterilize. Ozone will oxidize. Chemicals will neutralize. Flocking agents settle out dirt. This is all done at your city supply.
Backcountry surface water was clean to drink until teh gays introduced giardia, cryptosporidium and other intestinal parasites.
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No.12267
>>12264
I had one of those zero water systems, the water it produced smelled like fish after a while of use, gross. I used the filter for vodka, it was a much better use of it! Made my vodka taste like water nearly, this was a new filter I had left over that was unused so it wasn't watered down vodka.
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No.12748
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No.12749
>>458
New Braunfels has delicious tap water, but it's fluoridated. I drink distilled water. Condering buying a cheap chinese distiller so I can make my own. There's a great distiller make in the USA, but it costs 600 fucking dollars. Chink cheapy from Mao's dollar pound land is 79 bucks.
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No.12751
I pay around 16 cents a liter for bottled.
Ridiculous expensive, I know, but a necessity for drinking and cooking in the truck.
A lot of things that seem sensible completely change when you don't have water and electricity readily available.
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No.12757
my whole family has water filter jugs like that, they're pretty nice. the difference in flavor is noticable right away. i just wish the manufacturers weren't so jewish with the filter sizes. they sell you the jug with one filter size, and when your filter expires you go buy a new one only to find smaller ones. last time i ended up going through 5 supermarkets before i found the kind i was looking for
anyways, i hardly ever drink water as is, i usually make coffee or tea
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No.12773
This is the RO system I plan on getting. I prefer remineralization to make the water slightly alkaline, but the other version of this system has a UV bacteria/virus killer if that’s what you’re more worried about.
Honestly, I feel that the lack of alkaline foods in your diet is a larger culprit to overall negative health than people want to admit, but if you live in Apefrica then you can imagine that nasty pathogens in the water might be your more immediate and pressing concern. I’ve actually done a lot of research into this and I’d recommend either this or the Hydroperfection. I’m actually still on the fence, but since I still can’t buy one since I live in an apt then I have time to do more research.
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No.12774
>>12773
Here is the hydroperfection if you were curious. The cool part of this one is that the unit is modular so you don’t have to clean it out much. When you replace the filters, you’re replacing entire parts of the unit so it doesn’t need to be cleaned like other non modular systems. I would recommend buying it from their website though since you can specify that you want the antimicrobial tubing instead of the standard tubing. Also, you should get a “gapless” faucet for your RO system. I forget if this one if gapless.
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No.12974
<buy fancy meme water that comes in glass bottles
<when it ends , put normal filter water(no gay bombs for me please)in it
<c o n s u m e
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No.12977
I only drink distilled water, and use distilled water to make tea with.
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No.12980
>>12977
i mean as long as you season your food and eat a balanced diet you won't have any real problems. now if you were to drink chemistry grade ultra distilled water as if it were normal water you'd have some issues.
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No.13022
>>12980
Nope. Unless you're on a water fast, the mineral content of your water is inconsequential, unless you seek out extremely high mineral content waters. Swap out any drinking water in a first world country with lab grade DI water, and nothing would happen.
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No.16004
>>1579
kek we add fluoride to water here
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No.16061
My city gets over 100 degrees for four months out of the year. I have a 64 oz growel that is vaccum sealed and I carry that around with me
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No.16085
>>13022
It's not that the mineral content of the water matters, it's that youre drinking pure water that will bind to minerals in your body and then cause you to piss it out. Mineralized water already has minerals attached to the water molecules so it is not going to bind to minerals in your body already.
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No.16099
I drink it filtered in a water cooler.
>>13022
As the other anon said, DI water would fuck you up if you drank it allbthe time because it would electrochemically pull the minerals out of your body. You don't want hard water, but you want some trace mineral content to stabilize your water (unless you think you're gonna get a kidney stone and you're trying to break it up).
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No.16169
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No.16192
>>3198
>>12025
Fuck, I still reuse that bottle.
Now I have a Berkey filter system with fluoride filters.
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No.16416
lots of cold icy water with no plastic. glass is purity
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