The War For Water

Onhell

Onhell

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MODERATOR ACTION: Discussion split from this thread. -Love, Perun
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hmmm, I know exactly what you mean, specially when I go to the supermarket. Do I really need 5 kinds of Milk? Forget milk, five kinds of WATER? Capitalism gone wild, that's what it is, a bunch of crappy choices to fill our empty voids created by leasure time and social isolation... ain't it grand? So I can see how that ad was the straw that broke the camel's back.
 
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I will be damned before I pay money for water.
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Sadly, dude, not everyone in the world has access to safe, clean water for free like we do here. In many places in the USA, Europe, and Asia the water which comes out of the tap (if they even have one) is simply unfit to drink.

Someday when water prices get as high as oil, we Canadians will own this sorry excuse for a planet.
 
Water from the tap isn't free, ever heard of water bills? Next you'll tell me you don't pay for gas or electricity...
 
Paying for water via the tap is different than buying bottled water, however. For instance, at home, we have a potable well in the basement. Mostly potable, anyway. Africa, of course, is a different situation, where they have few sources of drinkable water...
 
Different yes, free no. the biggest difference is that for what you pay for your home water bill (I pay US$12) you can't buy even a tenth of that at the store. a 20oz bottle of watter (1.25pt, 591ml) is US$1.99!!!! and people complain about high gas prices... morons.
 
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Water from the tap isn't free, ever heard of water bills? Next you'll tell me you don't pay for gas or electricity...
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Onhell, the majority of people here outside of densely populated urban areas have private wells, ergo no water bill. And we don't pay for gas either, but mostly because it's not available in this part of the country.
Most homes are heated by furnace oil, electricity or wood.
 
I said water from the tap, ergo water bills. LC said nothing about owning a well until I made the comment you quoted. Having a private well certainly takes care of it but I think it is more of a luxury than having questionable tap water...
 
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In many places in the USA, Europe, and Asia the water which comes out of the tap (if they even have one) is simply unfit to drink.[/quote]
Certainly in the UK just about all the water that comes from a tap is safe to drink and in recent visits to mainland Europe I've found it to be the case also. I will stand corrected if someone can prove me wrong but I thought tap water in Europe, on the whole, is safe to drink.
 
Hmm... when I was living in Hamburg, everybody said that the tap water there is of exceptional quality. I drank it several times, and thought it tasted awful. I felt it had the metallic taste of water pipes combined with the taste of something that had died in it. I only drank it boiled, however, I did not always have the opportunity to boil it. So I rather drank bottled water I bought. I still prefer it. The tap water in the area I live in is alright, but I feel mineral water is superior to it. In contrary to what many people believe, it's not the same as tap water, at least not here.
 
It's exactly the same as tap water here mate (South East England) [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":P\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" /]
 
It's been my experience, Per, that the bigger the city is the worst the water tastes. Their main priority is, of course, to make the water safe. With usage as high as it is in a place like Hamburg, all they can do is dump chlorine and a few peripheral chemicals into it to kill harmful bacteria. There's no way they could treat that much water to taste good (and water can taste very good!) in a cost-effective way.

This is why European water is safe to drink; most of it has been treated. I was talking about drinking directly from a water source without treatment. Most lakes, rivers, and undergroud aquifers are polluted beyond safe limits because of thousands of years of human exploitation.
Due to Canada's tiny population and butt-ass large land area, most of the fesh water here can be consumed directly from the source.

BTW - this is quite an interesting topic; can we have it moved to a seperate thread?
 
It's pretty much like that in Scotland and parts of the Pennines in the north of England. The lakes (or lochs in Scotland) have good pure water.
 
I don't like water... [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/happy.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"^_^\" border=\"0\" alt=\"happy.gif\" /]
...even when it's pure and free ha ha
Have a good week end folks (full of water of course [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":D\" border=\"0\" alt=\"biggrin.gif\" /] )
 
Water is water [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sleep.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"-_-\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sleep.gif\" /]
 
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Having a private well certainly takes care of it but I think it is more of a luxury than having questionable tap water...
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Having a well is a luxury?

In areas of the country which were civilized long before the invention of indoor plumbing, wells are traditional. Everyone has them. Most rural areas on the US East Coast are still well-reliant; you only see city water in big cities like New York.

I would say that running water is a luxury. Wells, by contrast, are old-school.
 
It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again! (Sorry, all that talk about wells...I couldn't resist). I live in Northern Utah very close to the mountains and the water here is great. It's cold, clear, and clean. When I stay with friends or family who live in bigger cities South of me, there's a big difference in the appearance and the taste of the water. It's cloudy, luke warm, and just tastes funky to me. It may seem like water is water, but I can certainly detect a difference.
 
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