10/4    Let's put to rest this popular "bottled water is just expensive
        tap water" lie being perpetuated by greenies and picked up on by
        the government to promote their water systems. Bottled water is
        tap water *THAT HAS BEEN FILTERED*. That last bit is important.
        \_ Who are you arguing with?
           \_ Sierra Club, WWF, Natural Resources Defense Council, FDA, etc.
        \_ The water machines at Lucky's sell filtered UV'ed reverse-osmisis'ed
           water for $0.20/gal with no plastic to throw away.
           p.s. The stages are: 1) Activated Carbon Filter, 2) Micron Filter,
           3) First UV Light, 4) Reverse Osmosis, 5) Post Carbon Filter, 6)
           Second UV Light.
           \_ Or he could even buy his own water filter.
        \_ bay area water quality is pretty good.  you're just wasting your
           money
           \_ You drink it, but let's not pretend it's as good as RO/DI water.
                \_ You cannot begin to imagine how little I care about this.
                   \_ And yet you spent time writing this so you care more
                      than you think you do.
           \_ This is true in at least some areas.  My brother-in-law lives in
              Union City.  He used to get white deposits in cooking pots when
              he heats the pots to dry up the water, and he always blamed the
              water supply.  After replacing the old pipe in the whole house
              house with copper pipes, however, he no longer sees deposits.
              \_ White deposits are just salt.  That's what makes water
                 "hard".  Filtered water is softer, but a home water filter
                 is pretty damn cheap.
                 \_ My point was that the low quality of the water sometimes
                    is not caused by the water supply, but by one's own pipes
                    in the house. -- PP