Dear Boggled,
Finally, Madame L answers your second question: Why does mineral water that "has trickled through mountains for centuries" have a "use by" date?
Madame L might wonder if you were taking a geology class and hoping to have her do your homework for you, if she didn't know you better.
No, Madame L realizes that you have been reading the labels of bottled water, and she commends you for doing that. It is very instructive, is it not?
Madame L, like you, wonders at the unmitigated gall of the water-bottling companies that claim to be bringing you the purest of water in a plastic bottle. Ugh. Impossible.
The expiration date is probably based on the fact that after some time, especially if you've been keeping your water bottle in the sun or heat, the water will begin to taste like plastic. That's because some of the plastic molecules will have seeped into the water. Double ugh.
You may be interested to know, too, that some of the supposedly pure water being bottled by some very big bottling companies actually comes straight from the tap.
So why are people paying for this water? Madame L has no answer to this question, but she thinks the people who thought of bottled water are very, very smart people who must be getting very rich now.
Madame L refuses to buy bottled water except in the direst necessity. When she needs to carry water along with her, she fills her own glass or metal bottles with her own tap water.
Glug-glug-glug,
Madame L
2 comments:
Dear Madame L,
I have enjoyed reading the questions posed by "Boggled," along with your answers. I want to share some things about bottled water that I learned in my Environmental Science class from a few years ago. Did you know that bottled water does not have to meet the same cleanliness standards as our culinary tap water? In fact, according to my environmental-scientist-neighbor, who is also the head of the Environmental Science Department at our local university, 20% of bottled water has unacceptable levels of bacteria in it, as compared to culinary water standards. That means that one in five bottles of water don't meet basic cleanliness standards!! Also, bottled water can be marketed as "spring water" if it is bottled within a certain distance of a spring, like a mile or something. In other words, it doesn't have to have anything to do with the spring in order to be called spring water. At least, that's how my memory serves me from what I learned in class.
And now, I have a question for you. Yesterday I heard on the news something about earthquakes happening in Arkansas, and how research is being done to find out if they could be triggered by drilling for natural gas. Is there any possibility of truth to that? Can earthquakes be triggered by the actions of man?
Sign me,
Wondering
Ew. That's really gross. But I guess it's the the beginning of all the wonderful things that are manufactured and put into our stores for use to consume.
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