Originally Posted by
emptgrave
What about the bleach they use in the cups or the wax they seal them with? I think they also use glue to put them together.
You know what... I think i'll stick with the paper thing. A paranoid hypochondriac has to draw the line somewhere, right? Besides, once you go that far, then you've gotta worry about the floridated water, and how it's destroying america... or (see below) other contaminants... Worrying about that stuff would be just
crazy (unlike my drinking from glass, and now lead glazed coffee mugs, which are totally normal personality quirks).
Originally Posted by
Treefox
No it isn't. I remember growing up in Washington, DC having 'boil alerts' every few months when the quality dipped below some mandated level and it started killing people.
There are also measurable amounts of estrogen in nearly all municipal water systems, particularly downstream ones, because it gets peed out of women taking birth control and water processing equipment doesn't remove it. Yummy.
It even shows up in groundwater in many areas now.
Bottle water is, however, mostly tap water. Coke withdrew Dasani from the UK after it was revealed that it was just tap water from Didcot, an industrial outer-suburb of London (think Newark, NJ) and that it had several cancer-causing contaminants in. Big scandal - all the media were running stories on 'Eau de Didcot' and such.
I work in DC. I'd lick a Metro escaltor handrail before I drank water from the tap. That said, the EPA actually regulates municipal drinking water more than it does bottled water. I'm confident that for the most part the water won't kill me. It might make me sterile, and **** with my child's still developing brain, but it won't kill me. I think...