| The lengths some of us go to make sure we have | | | | What is really needed is clean, healthy and safe |
| clean, pure water to drink might even be funny if it | | | | water, but not have to pay an arm and a leg for it -- |
| weren't for the fact we spend so much time and | | | | and what doesn't cost big bucks these days? |
| money doing it. We buy bottled water under the | | | | Bottled water just doesn't cut it as it comes from |
| mistaken impression it is pure; install home purification | | | | the same source your tap water does, with the |
| systems that merely mask the taste of the tap | | | | exception of some form of purification; so it remains |
| water, and may even become sources of | | | | just that -- tap water with stuff in it you don't really |
| contamination themselves. So what's the real scoop? | | | | want to drink. Ditto for reverse osmosis, as it does |
| Bottled, tap, purified, reverse osmosis or what? | | | | not take out chlorine, herbicides and pesticides. You |
| Well, let's take a short step back and figure out | | | | get the idea. No, the only really tried and true |
| roughly how much Americans spend on what they | | | | method of getting pure, healthy and safe drinking |
| think is pure water each year. Would you believe | | | | water is with distillation. |
| over $35 billion dollars on bottled water by brand | | | | The distillation process gives you something called |
| name companies? That's a startling amount of money | | | | "rain in a chamber." You use regular tap water and it's |
| going to waste. Check out the most recent brags in | | | | vaporized, converting to sterilized steam as it gets |
| the media by Pepsi and CocaCola that say they're | | | | heated beyond boiling temperature. This takes place |
| predicting bottled water will out sell their soda | | | | in a stainless steel vaporizing chamber. The vapor |
| products. Isn't that something? | | | | diverts into a stainless steel condensing coil and |
| If they figure water will outstrip soft drinks, then | | | | gases, including chlorine, are eliminated. The vapor is |
| that should tell you water is becoming the main focus | | | | then condensed back to its original state. Now that is |
| of many American's lives, and they want the best | | | | pure and fresh. |
| there is. Well, bottled water is not the best there is. | | | | |