That's actually something I laugh at, too. In Britain, we've always said "We have water from our taps, and it's free! Not like some of those remote villages on the contantent who buy their water; what fools!" And then, somehow, someone managed to make us all buy water at fantasticly high prices, despite the convienence of taps. Always humourous to look at, mineral water.
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My mom buys it, and I always tell her that it's a waste of money. She tells me that it's her money to waste. I think she just wants to make sure that there's nothing left by the time she dies.
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Mineral Water is all I drink. Wisconsin has a thing with asbestos in the well water and it isn't the best thing to drink right now. Besides the water tastes icky anyway =p
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I don't mind tap, but I prefer well water more. I don't mind taking water out of sinks.... which I think some people think otherwise. I don't know.
I learnt that toilet water has less bacteria than a regular fast-food place like mcdonalds and burgerking icecubes... so maybe it's safer.
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The chicago river probably has less bacteria in it then those places.
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actually... recent research say it has more than 1000X the bacteria.