Useful trivia:
Bottled water costs 1,000 times more than tap water.
Tap water has stricter health and safety standards than bottled water.
Before you drink up from your newly cracked bottle of Dasani or Evian. Consider this:
City tap water can have no confirmed E. coli or fecal coliform bacteria. FDA bottled water rules include no such prohibition (a certain amount of any type of coliform bacteria is allowed in bottled water).
City tap water, from surface water, must be filtered and disinfected. In contrast, there are no federal filtration or disinfection requirements for bottled water.
Most cities using surface water have had to test for Cryptosporidium or Giardia, two common water pathogens that can cause diarrhea and other intestinal problems, yet bottled water companies do not have to do this.
City tap water must meet standards for certain important toxic or cancer-causing chemicals, such as phthalate (a chemical that can leach from plastic, including plastic bottles); some in the industry persuaded the FDA to exempt bottled water from the regulations regarding these chemicals.
City water systems must issue annual "right to know" reports, telling consumers what is in their water. Bottlers successfully killed a "right to know" requirement for bottled water
Clean water is the next (or even now) big battleground.
Wait, what about oil? and gasoline?
A gallon of bottled water costs about $4.00
A gallon of gasoline is about $3.00 - $3.50
It seems we can't live without either.
Today's workouts.
Friday
Swim
400 s, 100 choice
6x50 @ 1:05 (odd:25k/25s, even:25dr/25s)
4x100 @ 2:00 desc. lots of rest.
30:00 (THIRTY MINUTE SWIM!!) bagged 2,100 yards.
100 ez
4 x 50 k @ 1:15
4 x 75 p @ 1:40
100 ez
1800 + 30min Swim (2,100) 3,900 total. 80 minutes.
Run
Surges. 10 minute ez warm up. On a rolling course run 2 minutes (recover for 1 minute), 1 minute (recover 30 seconds), 30 seconds (recover 30 seconds) at ~5k pace. Repeat then cool down with 5 minutes ez.
11 comments:
Solid Swim! Nice header pic. Much warmer!!
I wish I could swim that fast. Are you a fish?
Ewww on the bottled water.
Love the info on the bottled water. Somehow it still tastes better though. haha.
I love your new picture at the top of your blog. Good info on water. Lately I've been putting mint sprigs in with my pitcher of tap or bottled water which always gives it a refreshing taste!
interesting way to look at it.. i am a tap water guy...
nice header photo..although in a twisted way, you reminded me in ohio of just how much colder and tougher you have it in your neck of the woods.. now that your photo reminds me of sunny days, i can just feel them coming on...real soon.... i said.....real soon.....please...
Wow - that's very interesting. I always wonder about whether bottled water is the worth the money or not. I really have a hard time paying for it, when I can get it for a little of nothing from my tap.
I hear you about the bottled water - although I must say bottled tastes better than tap does in Medina (yuck - it even leaved residue on my plants); although Minneapolis city water is delicious.
I like brenda;s idea of putting a sprig of mint in it. I like the idea that tap water gives me flouride, which the bottled water does not. And after looking at the size of the recycling bag hanging on my gear shift in my car, holding a zillion empty water bottles, I really do need to drink more tap water, too.
I got a water filter pitcher which seems to help with the tap water taste. I never thought about it but coffee by the gallon is likely the most $$$ :-(
Somehow I missed this post, but linked from PT's blog. I had to comment, since my friends refer to me as the "water snob." I grew up in Washingto St(Spokane)... the best tap water EVA. Then moved to AZ. There are times in teh summer when I when they tap into the reserves and I won't even feed it to my dogs. It smells as bad as it tastes...
That being said... I'm just as picky with my bottles water.. Arrowhead is the WORST.. tastes like AZ tap water. Love Aquafina or any store brand purrified.
My fav though is a local bottling company called Opremium (www.owaters.com). We have their delivery service. They have a water with added electrolytes wich is amazing in the summer, as well as when you've had a little too much to drink.
Ok.. I'm sure WAY too much info on water :-)
I stumbled across your post through PT's blog. I'm a water microbiologist/chemist and the people who insist on bottle water always amaze me. All your information is dead on correct, except you left one thing out. Most bottled water companies fill their bottles with local tap water. So not only is it not as highly regulated as your tap water (it's considered a food in the FDA's eyes) it's generally just the tap water from wherever it's bottled.
Just thought I'd throw that in :)
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