Thread: A serve of plastic with your water?

Originally Posted by p38arover

I probably get through 500ml a week - I only drink water when taking my tablets. I might drink one cup of tea a week as well. I do have one cappuccino every morning.

Most of my fluid intake will be from wine and from my food.

When crawling around roof spaces, digging trenches in the sun or even in industrial workshops I sweat like a pig

Usual summer weekday consumption
2 cups of coffee in the morning
2-3 litres of water
1/2 litre of juice or soft drink (gotta get my energy from somewhere because I don’t usually have lunch)
6+ beers before, with and after dinner

Weekends I will replace the water with beer usually and eat lunch

Winter I don’t drink enough water but still manage to keep my beer intake up

Originally Posted by Gav 110

6+ beers before, with and after dinner

Weekends I will replace the water with beer usually and eat lunch

Winter I don’t drink enough water but still manage to keep my beer intake up

Shh I am having a dry July

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Shh I am having a dry July

This year they’ll let you get away with a dryish July

Dry(ish) July

You could get away with a few every second day

It'd be intereting to know how the plastic has gotten into the bottles. Is it from the manufacture of the bottles, environmental contaminents that have affected the bottles or if its from the water.

I'm stingy as well, I just use a drink bottle and tap water. Fortunately I have rainwater tanks, so I doubt there is any plastic in the water. Mind you there may be other organic material in there! Kidding, its probably as clean as it gets, especially after the water filter on the fridge - but it doesn't last in bottles like town water does.

If your in a rural (even semi-rural location) you have to be wary about what your neighbours are spraying when your not looking
Up wind, settles on your tin, next rainfall, you have who knows what nasties your drinking☹️

Might have a read of this later
It might give some answers to what levels of crap we are potentially drinking

Originally Posted by Gav 110

If your in a rural (even semi-rural location) you have to be wary about what your neighbours are spraying when your not looking
Up wind, settles on your tin, next rainfall, you have who knows what nasties your drinking☹️

Thats true, it's probably as good as it gets though. There isn't much spraying, but I suspect the biggest pollutant is exhaust from the highway which is about 2km from my house.

Re spraying, once we were renting a cottage on a neighbours farm and heard a ting ting ting on the roof.
The crop duster was aerial supering the nearby paddocks.
I pulled the downpipe in prep for the next lot of rain.

I go through heaps of water, 5+ all up but the tap water goes through my 8 litre Southern Cross Pottery filter, it has one of those large ceramic filters in it and then into my stainless water bottles for work each day.

Having lived on farms/rural for most of my life, having chlorinated tap water now still makes me gag when having a shower, etc.