> Seems one of the major (long-term) problems with drinking "pure"
> water is that it has a much higher potential to get contaminated on
> the way to your mouth

Yeah, and you know what fish do in it. Maybe WC Fields was right
all along - "lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing
but food and water"

A survey on bottled was done here a while ago. Much of it came out
more contaminated than fresh tap water. Sits on the shelf in the light
and has dissolved plasticisers (from the bottle) and sometimes high
bacteria counts. And you pay over the odds for that privilege. Those
people who can't go 5 minutes without sucking on a water bottle teat
could be doing themselves more harm than good by over-hydrating
and not compensating dietarily for the extraordinary urine production

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