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xeroextremities t1_je2rsr3 wrote

No different than the tap water in your house

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Asteroth6 OP t1_je2sh9k wrote

I know. I didn’t actually make this to make fun of the premise or the water at all.

It was, well, “mildly interesting” (and a little funny) to me because water would ordinarily try incredibly hard to separate themselves from that image in marketing, not make it the selling point.

The marketing decision, not the water, is the (mildly) interesting part.

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thundrbud t1_je2sshc wrote

I guess that would depend on where you live. In Chicago the drinking water is pulled from Lake Michigan but the waste water is discharged into the sanitary canal which sends it into a system of waterways eventually going to the Mississippi river

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Hamilton_Brad t1_je35ijp wrote

Wait, so you are pulling from one watershed and then discharging into another? That seems problematic.

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stallion_412 t1_je376z1 wrote

Lake Michigan flows through the Chicago River and (eventually) into the Mississippi. It didn't used to, but you can thank the Army Corp of Engineers for that.

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AFAIK, with a few exceptions (like Chicago) there's an international treaty for the Great Lakes that requires water/excess used by humans to be eventually returned to the lakes.

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Hamilton_Brad t1_je3i5w8 wrote

Neat! That’s a 30 minute rabbit hole of Chicago history, but interesting.

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Xszit t1_je2te36 wrote

No different from amy bottled water that isn't specifically labeled as "spring water".

I used to work at a Coca-Cola bottling plant and the Dasani came from a faucet in the back.

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AndersTheUsurper t1_je315ns wrote

That faucet isn't connected directly to the municipal water supply, it's hooked to a reservoir of a machine that purifies the municipal water, which is the same place they get water for every other drink too

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beastmode1285 t1_je3gzwc wrote

Boiling water and collecting the steam is distillation. Reverse osmosis uses a semi-permiable membrane to separate the impurities from the water.

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Bean-candle t1_je2vkh3 wrote

I've heard that people don't like Dasani... I never quite understood it myself. Is that why?

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ZGTI61 t1_je38vys wrote

Dasani often has a “taste” to it. It’s hard to describe, it’s just different.

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YeuxBleuDuex t1_je4r0si wrote

Much better than the taste of say, Zephyrhills. That water should be called Choctawhatchee River Refreshment.

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Xszit t1_je2wiuk wrote

I've seen other water brands that say on the label that its municipal water from whatever small town they built the bottling plant in, its not unique to Dasani.

Big companies like Coke have multiple bottling plants so the quality will vary depending on which plant it came from and how good their local water treatment facilities are.

I know in the town I lived in at the time I would regularly get letters from the water company saying they were legally obligated to advise all customers that they had failed their water quality test from the government (again) and here's a list of all the contamination found in their water but they promise its still totally safe to drink, the levels of contamination in the water are just a little bit over the legal limits.

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Capt_takh t1_je44e9t wrote

It got banned in the UK as it was literally full of shit

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ChronicLateBloomer t1_je2zi01 wrote

Uhhhh pretty sure it’s unusual in the US for tap water to come straight from a sewage treatment plant but set me straight if I am wrong.

In my area which has had sustained drought (until this year), they are finally using treated and purified wastewater but injecting it into the aquifer used by municipal wells. I assume this is so they can say with a straight face that they aren’t sending waste water to your tap, to avoid people FrEaKINg OuT.

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huntimir151 t1_je3031l wrote

Tap water usually is treated again after passing through the water cycle a bit. Ie sewage is treated, treated sewage is released into a waterway, water is taken from said waterway and then treated again with chlorine or some such, then piped into your home.

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