Tap Water

last SG · 2008-01-10T11:18:38+00:00

coz u canot afford izit. n nw fer the real ting!!! me gonna get the diamond spa shower system next!

ORIGAMIST SG

I thought diamond is stone, got water meh ?

ORIGAMIST SG

Mineral water, as the name implied contain mineral which may not be absord fully by the body. The extras will go through your kidney which will have to work extra hard. Therefore may not be good for the body as a whole. Anyway, how do we know if the mineral bottled is not direct from the tap ?

maurizio13 SG

It's like telling smokers that they will get cancer from smoking, alot of them will shrug it off. I once told my friend that smoking causes cancer, she cited her grandma is a heavy smoker living till 90s. But then again, it depends on how tolerant your body is towards the carcinogen.

But finally, if there happens to be a health concern, would you rather be the person drinking treated water or mineral water.

Because the amounts of carcinogen is in such small quantities, you will not develop any symptoms from short term exposure. However, if you extend the exposure to afew decades, it could be quite substantial.

Most people cannot directly attribute something that doesn't affect them instantly and directly. If you go to a hawker center and eat contaminated food, you get diarrhea, you can attribute the cause to the unclean hawker food. However if you drink something carcinogenic in small quantities, the symptoms don't develop till 30 years later, you will never link the cause of it to the water you drink unless someone in the scientific community tells you so.

I rather err on the safe side, I don't mind paying abit more for my mineral water.

You are entitled to your own opinions.

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Have there been any health-related lawsuits associated with the use of recycled water?

- Panelists are not aware of any health-related lawsuits.
- Volker: Involved in lawsuit filed last year by Great Oaks Water Company against San Joses Recycled Water Project because tests conducted by Montgomery Watson showed that the recycled water exceeded drinking water standards. Montgomery Watson found the recycled water had concentrations of NDMA (a known carcinogen) eight times greater than the EPA standard.
Elevated levels of trihalomethane (THMs) were also discovered. Although the San Jose water was proposed for irrigation and cooling purposes only, it was determined that these constituents were likely to contaminate the groundwater aquifer from which San Jose draws its drinking water supply.

I shouldn't be telling you all this, it's causing me more detriment, because if more people drink mineral water, the price of mineral water is going to go up.

Please continue to drink tap water.

maurizio13 SG

A synthetic compound that is not a VOC but is also of concern with respect to its production during the wastewater treatment process is a specific synthetic compound called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). NDMA is formed during disinfection of wastewater appearing to form as a result of several different reactions that are thought to occur in the chlorine contact phase when treatment plants use chloramines instead of other species of chlorine. NDMA causes cancer in laboratory animals. It is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen, and is classified as a probable human carcinogen. In 1987, NDMA was added to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer. The California DHS has an action level of 0.01 (California DHS 2003).

maurizio13 SG

That's why I drink filtered tap water and mineral water. Very Happy

I only buy Evian and Aqua Panna. You can taste the difference when you put a glass of each side by side to taste.

ORIGAMIST SG

too much of everything is not good ... anyway, there was a newspaper report many years ago. Our Northern neighbour was selling mineral water which was bottled from well water. It was straight from well to bottle without proper filteration - something like that. Then it was also reported that the battery water was just oridinary tap water . ... just for you infor la ... Anyway, I only drink mineral water when I cannot get tap water ..

maurizio13 SG

Thanks.

Sheesh! SG

the problem with bottled water :
- the plastic bottles used, are they clean? free from VOC n other chemicals used in the production?
- most serious problem is pollution, look at the amount of trash plastic bottles around
should ban bottled water

Deino SG

Yes you got read about the taiwanese lady that drank like 7 litres of water per day for 3 months straight and then she goes blind?

ORIGAMIST SG

no leh ... tell me more about it ... she didn't anything else is it ? MAybe that's why no nutrient lor

joyc SG

What type of filter do u use?

Deino SG

It was on the newpaper.....

She thought drinking alot of water is good.....

But how much is alot? She drank like 7 litres of water per day.....If i'm not wrong some commentor said that she drank more than 3 times of the recommended amount.....

They said something about too much water go to the brain and no sodium go to the brain....something liddat

Even if she ate normally i dun think the nutrients could reach the areas where is should becoz of the ratio of water i guess

joyc SG

Agree, Heard a lot n read this before.
It make sense to use filtered water, mineral may b not.
But i've noticed that if i am giving too much pressure on filtered water, my water consumption is low Sad

aHGer^83 SG

actually, tap water in SG is safe enuff to drink.. no need to get too paranoid... Rolling Eyes

when i sick, and my pots n kettles run out of time to boil, i drink tap water....

fairlady_xoxo SG

Gimmick…and probably the fact that its NEwater…and some people are still over-paranoid of this hahaha….

aHGer^83 SG

really??
i been drinking abt 8L per day....

joyc SG

Sometime think that boiled water is a good choice but it's tasteless Sad

joyc SG

hummm

aHGer^83 SG

my bf went for the bull run last yr.. got a btl of NEWater... each of us had 1/2 of it....
i had the runs several times... and my bf had irritated throat....
the signs came 30mins after we consumed the water....
went to doc and confirmed food poisoning for me and infection for my bf...

Deino SG

hahaha....prepare to go blind Twisted Evil

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