I think I’ll stick to my cheaper, flavored beverages.
And he was supposed to avoid this how???
Drilling for water is a crapshoot. In most places in the US, anywhere you drill you will get water… eventually. But there is absolutely no way* to know ahead of time how far down you will have to go, or what you will hit on the way.
That you consider your contractor an idiot for something over which he had absolutely no control says more about you than about him…
- Dowsing is bunk. Period.
Buy a Brita filter.
Buy a a re-useable water bottle.
Save a ton of money.
If your water really sucks, buy two filters, and double filter the water.
Still save a ton of money.
Dasini and other bottled water brands are a rip-off. At the very most, they can legitimately charge the price of soda. Any more than that is pure greed mark-up.
(1) Dasani was never marketed as spring water.
(2) What is wrong with taking tap water, putting it through reverse osmosis, adding minerals and selling it?
(btw, where does tap water usually come from? rivers or from under the ground?)
(3) I don’t think it is appropriate to compare tap water and Dasani because Dasani is not intended for mass home consumption. In fact, Coca-Cola is getting into the home water business. Then, it will be a competition between the higher-priced, better-tasting tap water from Coke, and the regular tap water supplied by your county? What will you choose?
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(1) Dasani was never marketed as spring water.
(2) What is wrong with taking tap water, putting it through reverse osmosis, adding minerals and selling it?
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They’re leeching onto the spring-water market. They don’t need to market it as such, because most people assume it’s not simply tap water.
In London, mostly rivers.
Despite this from the Dasani GB website: “1.5 litre - Dasani – take it home!
Also available in a 6 x 1.5 litre multi-pack”?
Bugger me, those quote screwed up big time :mad:
That’s a subtle point. It’s marketed as “Pure, still water.” The marketing folks clearly phrase that in a way that is intended to evoke the image of a natural spring, rather than a distillation plant. Otherwise, they’d just call it “Distilled water,” like everyone else does.
Add to that that they’re entering a market where bottled water is traditionally from natural springs, and marketed on the basis of the flavour that the minerals impart to the water. As you can see, the approach there is to appeal to a sense of sophistication. (Remember back in the day, when Perrier was first imported to North America?) You can buy distilled water at a drug stor-- (err, chemist’s) but the idea of putting a nice label on it and charging a premium is entirely foreign. It’s a hard sell, and it’s not difficult to grasp why Britons are pointing and laughing at Coca Cola Corp. “Go on-- pull the other one!”
In general, the biggest consumers of Dasani are those carrying it around in small bottles. I think there may be the rare household which buys litres of Dasani for home consumption. The price becomes a a key factor when you are buying large quantities of Dasani, which is why Coke is trying to get into the home solutions market to compete with the water filters, local tap water supply etc.
Re: the deceptive marketing thing, I was never under the impression that Dasani was spring water. But, you may have a point… though they aren’t engaging in open deception. Hey, what do you expect from a marketing-driven company?
Just a quick question: Is it a given that treated spring water tastes better than purified river water? Why is there a premium on spring water?
To me, Dasani tastes better than anything else I have had, including spring water.
After the marketing triumph of New Coke, it was hard to see what Coke could do next, but this! this is genius of a “Fatty Arbuckle” level.
The only time I’ve ever bought bottled water is when we are at an amusement park or somewhere where I did not want pop.
I’ve always felt bottled water was a scam.
I live on a well. Being in Michigan, we will never run out of water. My water is quite excellent, too.
Even the minute portion of arsenic that is in my water is tasty.
I am typing this post with the third arm that has grown out of my forehead.
My friends a few miles away are on a well. They live on a lake, too.
Their water is nasty. It smells of rotten eggs. STrongly of rotten eggs.
They use jugs of water from the store. A gallon is something like 65 cents or so.
They don’t have a third arm growing out of their forehead.
Have a nice day.
[nitpick]It is NOT distilled water. “Distilled” refers to the process of boiling the water, then recollecting the water by condensation through (usually) a coil and a drip tube. Distillation has the unfortunate side-effect of de-aerating the water, making it taste flat and, well, “boiled.”
Reverse osmosis, on the other hand, refers to a process by which the water is forced against the normal diffusion gradient through an extremely fine filter. It is probably also UV-treated. Reverse osmosis is an excellent filtration method, usually leaving water damn near “reagent grade,” extremely pure, without changing the concentration of dissolved oxygen, thereby leaving an aerated (and superior) taste.
When I lived in the north end of Minneapolis, I would buy the 2.5 gallon jugs of water to drink because what came out of the tap was way too “chemical”, especially in the spring when they “clean” the pipes by sending horrid amounts of chlorine through them. Then you get 2-5 days a year when it comes out blood red because they’re flushing certain parts of the system.
Feh. Better to pay a few bucks for consistently drinkable water.
Did the same thing when I worked in Plymouth, where the “water” was unbelievably horrid.
The last few years, living in other locations around the cities, I’ve been quite happy with a Brita filter. It removes that nasty ‘chemically treated’ taste.
The only time I’ll buy a bottle of water is on the road. And I don’t give a shit about the name.
I thought of addressing that but assumed the poster was not trying to be technically accurate 
Yaaar! I’ve had four bottles of exceedingly impure water, contaminated with complex carbohydrates and ethanol.
I’m past technical accuracy.
At least the blinding headache I’ve had all day is gone. 
I didn’t see this post before but your version of Dasani is a little distorted. They don’t just take the minerals out and put some back again. The purification process is reverse osmosis which is a sophisticated membrane filtration process. The end product is significantly different from the raw material as people (including me) can vouch with our tastebuds.
If you don’t mind buying water filters to run the tap water through, what is your objection to buying filtered (slightly flavored) water? Well, if tap water works fine for you in UK, that’s great, but my tap water tastes terrible.
Finally, why should I buy spring water over filtered tap water? I don’t understand your argument.
sorry for the hijack, but can someone please explain to me the difference between treating water with reverse osmosis and filtering water??
Filtering usually involves something like an activated charcoal filter. It’s basically a tube filled with charcoal dust. The water percolates through and the charcoal picks up impurities. There might be other types of filters, but I don’t know much about them. I think my pool filter uses a huge mass of nylon thread in place of charcoal, but I’m not sure.
Reverse osmosis involves forcing water through a membrane. Normally water on two sides of a membrane try to equalize salinity and impurities on both sides, but in reverse osmosis, water is forced from the high impurity side to the low impurity side against the normal osmotic flow with high pressure.
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I just don’t care for soda and the like. If I happen to be thirsty away from home, and there’s not a water fountain handy, I’ll pay a little bit extra to have them leave the sugar, carbonation and miscellaneous crap out of my water. Although I can’t say as I’ve ever noticed a lot of difference between brands. If there’s a choice, I’ll buy the cheaper one.