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OT: Best brands of water

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I would have to go with Evian at #1, mostly because of the clean, crisp taste. It also has tasteful minerals added. #2 would go to Fiji, which comes from clouds on the island of Fiji. My #3 choice is honored to Calistoga-as long as it is still, not bubbly.

 

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What are your top choices for water brands?

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Firewater!!

"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak

by icanplaythird on Oct 2, 2008 12:11 AM PDT   0 recs

Aguardiente?

When I was in Cuba, I traveled with Renewable Energy scientists who literally drank that for breakfast.

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by hairball on Oct 2, 2008 8:59 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Suck it, Goofus

I drink beer because I don’t trust our water supply.

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by groug on Oct 2, 2008 4:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You sonofabitch.

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by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 8:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

YOU STEAL EVERYTHING I SAY

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My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Oct 3, 2008 5:29 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This is why I drink so much beer. I don’t trust our water supply!

(Let the record show that my post of this joke is higher up than Walrus or Xanthan’s)

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Oct 2, 2008 4:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You sonofabitch.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Oct 2, 2008 4:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

YOU STEAL EVERYTHING I SAY

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 3, 2008 3:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Costco/Kirkland

Tastes like water, does fine when thirsty.
Didn’t like it at first, but then thought, WTH, water is water.

by DesertFox on Oct 2, 2008 12:14 AM PDT   0 recs

Tap.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.

by groug on Oct 2, 2008 12:26 AM PDT   0 recs

T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tap!

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Oct 2, 2008 12:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Tap plastics?

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by jponry on Oct 2, 2008 5:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The fantastic plastic place!

by rightcenterfielder on Oct 2, 2008 9:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

t-t-t-tap!

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by Takimoto on Oct 2, 2008 7:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I’d hit that.

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by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 7:12 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Watch out, Baron!

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Oct 2, 2008 8:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Little known fact

Tap is my nickname.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 2, 2008 8:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

"Biter" is my call sign

The story involves a strip club in Reno.
It’s slightly embarrassing, but the rule about call signs in aviation communities is you can’t give them to yourself…

Brian Sabean figures that if he buys enough bottles, one of them is bound to have lightning in it.

by jasomack on Oct 2, 2008 2:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Fiji, Crystal Geyser, Aquafina, Dasani

by deuce deuce on Oct 2, 2008 12:29 AM PDT   0 recs

Sorry, bad choices (besides Fiji)

I hate purified water. It tastes “fake”

by GMBrian on Oct 2, 2008 12:32 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

To each his own, I suppose, because Evian is probably my least favorite water for the taste.

by deuce deuce on Oct 2, 2008 12:39 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

wtf is this thread?

Rafael Rodriguez: More tools than Home Depot.

by BrianBokake on Oct 2, 2008 12:30 AM PDT   0 recs

Brita.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Oct 2, 2008 12:36 AM PDT   0 recs

Brita water is better water

"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak

by icanplaythird on Oct 2, 2008 12:43 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

what the hell is wrong with you people????

1. I don’t drink water for the taste. I drink it to stay alive.

2. The tap water in the Bay Area comes from snowmelt in Yosemite, which is “fresher” than any crap that sits in plastic bottles in warehouses for weeks before getting shipped out.

3. Bottled water costs more per gallon than gasoline.

4. “But I recycle the bottles!” Well la-di-da. Think about all the energy that goes into making the bottles, bottling the water, transporting it hundreds of miles (the absolute WORST is fiji water), then transporting the bottles to the recycling plant to be recycled, and repeat. And I highly doubt you are able to recycle every bottle. “Green” my ass.

5. Worried about health risks? Buy a water filter.

6. Speaking of health risks, those chemicals in nalgene bottles that cause cancer were also found in bottled water bottles.

7. Almost 70% of bottled water in the world is consumed in the US. 80% of those bottles end up in landfills.

C’mon now McCoven, this ain’t some tree hugging hippy crap; it’s common sense. I have no idea how bottled water became popular, but it’s completely ridiculous. Buy a kleen kanteen or some crap like that and save the planet and shit.

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by stealth snail on Oct 2, 2008 1:06 AM PDT   0 recs

Dude, chill out and have a Dasani.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Oct 2, 2008 1:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Uh dude, have you ever drank water out of the tap in Arizona? Heavily chlorinated pool water with a hint of urin tastes better. Bottled water is a must, and nothing beats a cheap bottle of kirkland bottled water.

by Fresburg on Oct 2, 2008 7:29 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you are my hero

STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.

by UnleashTheGore on Oct 2, 2008 8:47 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Al Gore disowns your ass.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 1:47 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Exceptions should be made for residents of Davis, CA

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 9:12 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

...and San Jose

SF water is great though.

Bottled warter is my biggest tree-huggin violation though.
I love the Pellegrino…and most sparking waters.

They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long

by bgunn on Oct 2, 2008 10:09 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

When I lived in SJ..

I’d drink the water all the time. Now, where I live I’m not drinking but that’s because it’s a little tiny town with terrible piping probably. So just to be safe I have to drink beer.

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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 11:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Our Founding Fathers — the drunk bastards — salute you.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 1:48 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My building is 100 years old any you can practically chew the tap water. NO THANKS.

by satyricrash on Oct 2, 2008 10:14 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

O.C. water is colored

and smells bad, especially Anaheim. But, then I moved and my tap water is what people pay for in bottles. So, I bathe in your bottled water, NICE.

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by igotnothing on Oct 2, 2008 10:41 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes

This is a good example of why we are doomed. The way we have been operating is unsustainable. Technology is not going to save us. People need to change their behavior, and it is obvious that many people aren’t willing to do that. Even doing the smallest things for the environment seems to be to much ask some people if it means any sort of inconvenience to them. The world will survive, but the people on it will have only themselves to blame if they don’t.

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by marklar on Oct 2, 2008 10:49 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

amen brotha

I’ll save a spot for you on my spaceship (VW camper van) when shit REALLY hits the fan

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by stealth snail on Oct 2, 2008 10:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

“The world will survive, but the people cockroaches on it will have only themselves to blame if they don’t make use of the plastic bottle flotilla in the Pacific, and turn it into a navy to defeat the humans.”

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 1:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I already said tap.

I demand you exclude me from “you people”

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by groug on Oct 2, 2008 11:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

We accept you

One of us! One of us!

by Evan on Oct 2, 2008 11:44 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

These virtual embraces are kind of icky.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 1:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

All very true, except quite a lot of water bottles are NOT recyclable. Hell of a lot of waste.

San Francisco – gets Hetchy Hetchy water – very pure water source – snow melt
East Bay – ebmud – snowmelt again from Pardee

the rest of you are out of luck

by timmeh on Oct 3, 2008 4:52 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Down here in Santa Cruz...

…we drink mostly Santa Cruz mountain rainfall, which sounds good, until you realize how many people live up in the Santa Cruz mountains with decrepit septic systems.

However, a Brita on-tap filter makes the cleaned-up water quite pleasant to drink.

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by EliminateMe on Oct 3, 2008 2:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Actually the snow melt advantage only has to do with the cost of treatment. The cleaner the source the less treatment thus less cost of the water.

by timmeh on Oct 4, 2008 3:10 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I used to buy those big ass jugs of spring water for 80 cents because the college town I was in had really hard water.

SO CRISP

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Oct 2, 2008 5:15 AM PDT   0 recs

Does anyone like to look at the label on the back of bottled water like I do? I once saw this bottle of AMAZONIAN SO FRESH WATER OMG or something and it came from a Tennessee municipal water source.

lol.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Oct 2, 2008 5:27 AM PDT   0 recs

Those are the great ones… where you read on the fine print “bottled from a municipal source.” So basically they take tap water run through some sorta Brita filter on steroids and put it in a bottle. Absolutely brilliant.

Coming soon to a store near you: Air in a can!

by Merope on Oct 2, 2008 6:00 AM PDT   0 recs

steroids!
some sorta Brita filter on steroids

There is no proof that putting a Brita Filter on steroids can help you hit homeruns, identify pitches, or eliminate certain substances from your bottle of water, better than a regular Brita Filter without steroids. Brita filter was already a legend and Hall of Fame household item before Coca-Cola and Miller Brewing pumped it up on steroids. Can we drop the subject of steroids!?!? PLEASE?!

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by kennv on Oct 2, 2008 7:10 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

that’s exactly what they do, they filter tap water once or twice and add some minerals back in for taste.

If you have ever had very pure water – distilled/deionized – tastes flat

by timmeh on Oct 3, 2008 4:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

F*ckin' water snob

Who the f*ck asks about what brand of water to drink? We’re fortunate to be able to drink disease-free water.

What you should be asking is:

How can I get clean water to those people who don’t have access to any?

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by SoFa King Mike on Oct 2, 2008 7:39 AM PDT   0 recs

Bottled water really is the most amazing product ever. I get the portability or the convince of having water but why not just buy a bottle to fill up when you get the chance?

An interesting study on Bottled Water from 1999

Some of this marketing is misleading, implying the water comes from pristine sources when it does not. For example, one brand of “spring water” whose label pictured a lake and mountains, actually came from a well in an industrial facility’s parking lot, near a hazardous waste dump, and periodically was contaminated with industrial chemicals at levels above FDA standards.
According to government and industry estimates, about one fourth of bottled water is bottled tap water (and by some accounts, as much as 40 percent is derived from tap water) — sometimes with additional treatment, sometimes not.

I would guess (without looking at the statistics) that the United States has some of the best tap water in the world? Water quality is a big issue in countries dealing with extreme poverty. It’s probably not an issue in the United States in most places.

Like I said, the water in my small college town wasn’t very good, but the town had a lot of infrastructure problems (rapidly outgrowing itself and unable to support the population boom) that I think contributed to the problems.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Oct 2, 2008 7:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Study after study shows municipal water to be cleaner and safer than bottled.

But a slew of studies show the opposite.

Depends on which hucksters are running the tests, I suppose.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 2:00 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Buy a 1 liter Sigg bottle, and fill, then repeat as often as desired. Its the best way to go.

by timmeh on Oct 3, 2008 5:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you can clean your sigg with those tablets for cleaning dentures

by Merope on Oct 3, 2008 6:12 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Unless one’s tap water is truly terrible, bottled water is one of the lamest uses of cash and natural resources I know of.

Gavin Newsome was right to yank all the water coolers out of city offices; Hetch Hetchy water is great.

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Oct 2, 2008 8:00 AM PDT   0 recs

nice i didn't know he did that

I go to Chico State and they are going to stop selling bottled water on campus and build more water fountains. The only reason some school officials resisted was because the school made so much money selling it.

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by stealth snail on Oct 2, 2008 10:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I’ve always forgot to ask, but are the residents of San Francisco aware of how much they are hated by the residents of Moccasin, CA for that deal?

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 10:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

by that I mean the Hetch Hetchy deal.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 10:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I think...

A lot of people hate SF for the Hetch Hetchy deal. I’m sad I never got to see Hetch Hetchy Valley without a lake in it. Perhaps some of the old-timers here have seen it…delorean?

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How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 11:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

We, the indigenous peoples of the High Sierra...

have lost our Hetch Hetchy, and would love to kick San Francisco’s skeevy butt.

However, we are a patient people, and are awaiting the advent of the steel-toed moccasin.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 2:06 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Moccasin, CA..

Home to the OPG!!!!!!

McC Bucks to anyone who knows the OPG.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 11:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I used to live fifteen miles from Moccasin and I have no idea what you are talking about.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 1:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

HA

The Old Priest Grade. The only way to get to Yosemite, unless you’re going around the north and coming in the east side.

Or, as we called it when my dad’s truck broke a water pipe on it, Dead Priest Road.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 1:52 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

oh. Yeah.

New Priest’s Grade isn’t exactly a walk in the park either.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 2, 2008 2:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I love going up the Old Priest Grade

My car does not.

Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.

by thehavenot on Oct 2, 2008 4:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I love going up..

The first part. That’s when you smell the stupid tourist’s brakes burning when they were using their brakes instead of a lower gear.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Oct 2, 2008 8:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

going up isn’t the problem… I despise driving down it.

by Merope on Oct 3, 2008 6:15 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sorry Goofus, but most of the city offices still have water cooler.
In fact for all his talk about getting rid of water coolers if you go to the Mayor’s office you’ll see he still has water cooler.

I’m almost 100% sure that all 11 of the SF Board of Supervisors still have their coolers

by Calvn n Hobbs on Oct 2, 2008 8:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If an office has a water cooler, doesn’t that mean the employees had to pay for it out of their own pockets?

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Oct 4, 2008 9:19 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I learned to drink tap water. It tasted funny to me for a long time, but it’s cool.

In other news, anybody every check out was Evian spells if you spell it backward?

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Oct 2, 2008 8:23 AM PDT   0 recs

I spelled it backward and get "ti"

Ishi-ishi-ka-ka-wa-wa!

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Oct 2, 2008 9:37 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

How many times have I told you

Don’t ka-ka in the wa-wa.

It’s bottled, and sells big in the bay area.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 2:09 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I just get the gallon jugs (heh jugs) at Safeway because they’re $1.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 2, 2008 8:37 AM PDT   0 recs

A tip, directly from the Tap.

by Moggeee on Oct 3, 2008 2:10 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

RIP
Yeah, about time for me to get a little drink of water. Figure this stuff is safe to drink? Huh? Actually I don’t care if it’s safe or not, I drink it anyway. You know why? Cause I’m an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. That’s right, I’m a loyal American and I’m not happy unless I’ve let government and industry poison me a little bit every day. Let me have a few hundred thousand carcinogens here.

- George Carlin

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 2, 2008 8:44 AM PDT   0 recs