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In article <voh65v21y23.fsf@blue3.math.berkeley.edu>, David desJardins
<david@desjardins.org> wrote:

> "daniel" writes:
> > I was in Germany a couple of years ago.  The laws there regulating tap
> > water are so strict that water from the tap is purer than bottled
> > water.
> 
> Bottled water isn't supposed to be "pure".  It has minerals that are
> supposed to make it taste better.

   Depends on the bottler.  We have five gallon bottles of purified water
delivered to work.  

> It has minerals that are
> supposed to make it taste better.

   Sometimes added on purpose.  Anyone else remember Calso Water?  Calso
was a mixer once bottled in Menlo Park.  Best I could tell it was Hetch
Hetchy water with interesting salts added. 

   I was interested to recently learn that Vittel once bought and then
abandoned the Bartlett Springs source/resort in Lake County in the
eighties.  

   My favorite bottled water was Cobb Mountain Spring Water
<http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/bott/bt_080cobbm.html>.  Apparently they
couldn't survive after attempting to sue Nestle (current owners of
Calistoga Water) over dubious source claims.  

 - Mark "followups set to ca.water, beer has food value, water doesn't" Mellin

-- 
Mark Mellin           (rhymes with)           Just down the Hill from Gene

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Mark Mellin           (rhymes with)           Just down the Hill from Gene