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Chlorine in Valpre spring water
- Thread starter Quantum Theory
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AntiThesis
Executive Member
Bottled water should be bought only for convenience 
Get bottle, drink, fill with tap. Easy.
I actually can't even watch that P&T Bull**** video, it makes me want to stab people
Water steward. ROFL.
Get bottle, drink, fill with tap. Easy.I actually can't even watch that P&T Bull**** video, it makes me want to stab people
Water steward. ROFL.
Quantum Theory
Executive Member
That scares me more than poisonous water!
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
And you are a chop. I have been to their bottling plant in Paulpietersburg when they were a client of mine.
It is bottled from a "source" similar to a borehole. Quantum I dont recall seeing a point where Chlorine could get in but that was a few years ago and maybe production has changed a bit.
As I said, it could be the method they use to sterilise the bottles, might have nothing to do with the water?
The_Ogre
Honorary Master
I could never understand people who bought water, never.
I drink it from the source, and my source is the tap!
I drink it from the source, and my source is the tap!
Bwaaaaahahahahaha!!!
Try it in some foreign countries and we'll talk again, or even parts of the Eastern Cape. How about Delmas?
LCBXX
Honorary Master
People in "foreign" countries drink their own tap water. If you stay there long enough, so could you. Your body just needs to get accustomed to their flavour of minerals and additives.
porchrat
Honorary Master
FTFY.
There are some things that can occur in water that no matter how long you slug it you aren't going to "get accustomed" to.
Still I have on occasion bought bottled water. Usually when I am desperate and I have forgotten my own trusty water bottle that I carry around. I can't recall that I ever considered it somehow safer or cleaner than tap water though.
LCBXX
Honorary Master
Allright, perhaps I did not need to generalise it as much as I did.
What I meant was that if you fly to the US today, land and travel to New York and drink water from the tap, you will probably get the squirts. After a while, you will grow accustomed to it and your body will make nothing of it. If you get back to SA and take a gulp of tap water here, the same will happen (spuitpoep).
Quantum Theory
Executive Member
Thanks. I do believe that it is actually coming from the ground, but this bottle has been contaminated. The source mentioned on the bottle is Waveside Lagerspoort, Heidelberg and this from their website:
CAPS LOCK
Executive Member
My village chief gives me 9000L water free, per month. Perfectly Safe to drink, tastes good too.
There was that thing on carte blanche years ago where they had the water tested and the results were pretty bad, think valpre faired the worse out of the lot and there was stuff like ecoli etc in it. I'm sure things were improved after that program though and testing became more rigorous.
If you are gonna buy water buy the Reverse Osmosis filtered water. They take normal tap water and filter it removing a lot of stuff from it. It's also a lot cheaper than your fancy smanchy spring waters.
I just drink tap water and if I dont have any on me I will buy the reverse osmosis stuff.
Quantum Theory
Executive Member
So, a Coca Cola rep is coming to collect the bottle and discuss compensation. I have taken a sample that I will get tested...