An ecologically-minded teenager on my television just claimed that tap water is "cleaner and healthier for you than store-bought water."

Isn't that...lies?

(He followed it up with "Also, it's a lot cheaper." Which is not lies.)

Yay moved in Lee!

I don't understand why I have been super super sleepy the past couple days. I've been getting plenty of sleep, but when the alarm went off this morning, I reset it three times! And I was kind of expecting I'd wake up before the alarm, since I set it for very late, and until the past couple days I'd been waking up pretty early. Weird.

Went and did my free trainer session that came with joining the new gym...got suckered into buying a whole bunch of trainer sessions, but am not going to start them for a few weeks.

I need to run some errands now that the snow has mostly melted (donate big pile of clothes to Goodwill, take things to the dry cleaner, get pants hemmed, there was something I was going to buy at the mall but I can't remember what, get a pedicure?). But I also need to clean the house. Roommate gets home later today, and it's a pit in here (granted, a little bit her fault, but mostly mine)

Isn't that...lies?

Not necessarily. There have been some studies recently about that: turns out that bottled water often has impurities in it, including offgases from the bottles it's stored in. And depending on the source, public water can be very good indeed.

YAY LEE!

I am motivated to do some cleaning because my mom will be back over on Monday and I want her to see visible progress. thus far, all I have managed is shredding some paper and telling myself over and over what needs to be done.

In some cases store bought water actually IS tap water, so which is healthier may depend on the quality of tap water where you are versus where it's bottled. But the tales of store-bought plastic bottles leaching dioxins into their contents are just urban legends (though there may be cause for concern about the rigid BPA plastics used to make some bottles intended for re-use).

Hmm, my Google says that tap water contamination regs (done by the EPA) are occasionally more stringent than bottled water regs (managed by the FDA), but mostly they are the same. The EPA regs are more stringent in areas like lead, since people have lead pipes in their houses sometimes, and that's not an issue with bottled water.

I think they are probably equally healthy and safe, and people are more like to have the (erroneous) perception that bottled water is safer than tap.

(mr. flea is a water engineer.)

Not necessarily. There have been some studies recently about that: turns out that bottled water often has impurities in it, including offgases from the bottles it's stored in. And depending on the source, public water can be very good indeed.

So how does filtered tap water compare? Do the filter containers offgas?

I think they are probably equally healthy and safe, and people are more like to have the (erroneous) perception that bottled water is safer than tap.

Pretty much what flea said.

Okay, this is weird. I'm feeling really jittery and strange, like I'm overcaffeinated but I only had one small cup of coffee around 11 am. My heart feels like it's pounding. I thought maybe it was just stuff in my house, so I came out on my porch, but it's not helping. WTF.

smonster, have you eaten anything today?

I'm so happy for you, Lee!