agreed.
Seems like it's pollution leading to high fluoride levels (in addition to what's there naturally in some Chinese ground water) and not just what the small amount the government puts in. Nothing to stop pollution from infiltrating your ground water and causing the same problems.
She buys gallons of water to wash her dishes in and will flip shit if you use tap water on her stuff. I am serious, she opens up a gallon and makes a thing of dishwater with it and will wash all of her dishes in it.
http://www.disasterstuff.com/store/pc/Big-Berkey-with-Purifier-or-Filter-Options-20p65.htm
You know, that's actually not that expensive if it does indeed give you years of good use. Not bad to have a way to filter your water in case of power outage or storms. The costs of buying bottled water I would bet add up pretty quick. $320ish with fluoride filters and some spare parts.
Someone that drinks only bottled water would spend that much in a few months let a lone a few years and have inferior quality though I haven't done the math yet!
bottled water is cheap if you go to those fill up stations or buy it in bulk. When we lived in town we drank only bottled water.
Dekalb had been sued a few times over how bad the water was. i couldn't drink it and after reading about the lawsuits we switched to bottled only for drinking.
we would get bottled water delivered for drinking. we paid (roughly 15 years ago mind you) roughy $20 a month for 3 5 gallon jugs.
My teeth look like the Mild photo, but i assumed it was from too much pop as a kid.
Such a shame... shoulda drank soda instead. You wouldn't have had those problems.
no they don't flouridate the water, there's just plenty of it already present in our groundwater ( well within safety limits though).
I have no idea how I got flourosis, my dentist tells me that there are so many different sources that it's impossible to identify the culprit. I just know I have it, although people never notice it (it's a very, very mild case).
Such a shame... shoulda drank soda instead. You wouldn't have had those problems.
I think fluorosis can only happen to you when your teeth are actually being produced "ie when you're a child". Since when do children drink water?
Good reason to drink well water.
Interesting that everyone here seems to think fluoride in drinking water is such a huge health risk.
Apparently the WHO and many govts. have done an excellent job of covering up statistics of the cancer rates where chlorine is used as a disinfectant in water, compared to where it is not used.
Strange how studies that indicate a problem with someone deciding what is "best" for the masses, can become "lost" to the general public.
Here, in the States, chlorine has been used since the 1900s to disinfect water, and reached general use in almost all of the municipal water supplies by the late 40's to early 50's.
Have a look at the rate of increased cases of cancer of all types since 1900 in the US vs the use of chlorine in municipal water supplies.
Interesting set of curves.
Currently 94%+ municipalities in the US use chlorine in either gas or liquid form to "disinfect" drinking water.
And don't forget, it's not just "drinking water" that is the problem.
You bathe (soaking and absorbing through your skin) and showering (absorbing through the skin and inhaling fumes directly from the outgassing of hot water, and you wondered why hot water smelled different than cold).
Chlorine is, has, and will be continued to be used because it is the cheapest way to "disinfect" water, even though it is not 100% effective or the safest.
Chlorine has been listed (in all it's forms) as a known carcinogen since the early 30's in almost all "developed" countries worldwide.
Remember, with chlorinated water, we're not talking toxic shock or mass exposure, but long term low level exposure on a continuous basis.
Studies (legitimate and unbiased) on flourides in water are ambivilant at best and depending on where your drinking water is sourced from, the naturally occurring flourides in the water may be as high or even higher than those injected.
For the record, I am against fluoride injection in municipal water supplies and have a private well.
I have been constructing state, county, municipal, and private water treatment facilities for over 37 years, so trust me when I tell you, fluoride injection is not what you should be worried about.
(Just for fun, you might also try to find the studies that were done on the incidence of "hard" water vs kidney stones, if you want something else to worry about)
I guess, there a lot of pretty dumb people who believe that some guy in mountains are filling plastic bottles with a water, with a magic water, safe to drink water...
And that guy loads Poland Spring trucks with a plastic bottles filled with spring water...
Some can't just grow up from Mickey Mouse children stories....
If you took a picture of my teeth, then switched it and showed me the 'very mild' one, I wouldn't question that they were mine.My teeth look like the Mild photo, but i assumed it was from too much pop as a kid.
And yet there are plenty of such waters that actually are from natural springs or wells (sometimes artesian) tapping into large aquifers.
Yes, there are plenty of falsely-advertised bottled waters. But there are plenty of correctly advertised.
No, it's unlikely anyone bottles directly at the source, especially not by hand. But they do capture large production volumes there and bottle it directly from capture/storage/transport.