Bottled water warning

[Baron Samedi]

Reminds me on an excursion I made with some _very natural living and very christian_ people to the "Ötscher Graben" (A beutyful narrow valley in austria).
It was summer. It was _really_ hot and dry. And it is a long way, about 15 miles, mostly upwards. Some of the participants had 1 litre bottles of bottled water with them (ways not enough, and others were drinking beer (!) at a resting station about half the way up) - and the bottles wer empty after 1/3 of the walk. I had a half litre bottle of normal water with me and refilled it at springs we found (there are little springs every few meters there, it's part of the chalk-alps) and had enough water for the whole time. Some of the participants suffered from thirst after half of the distance, but refused to take some of the spring water, which is filtered and mineralized through hundreds of meters of chalk rocks.
This water is cleaner than every water you can buy in bottles, but they refused, and one of them was very close to a breakdown whe we arrived at our goal.

Stupidity rules.

So where in the world do they think their bottled water came from???? Are we really that paranoid as a society that we won't trust anything unless it's packaged?

 

[EternalSceptic]

So where in the world do they think their bottled water came from???? Are we really that paranoid as a society that we won't trust anything unless it's packaged?

Watch tv, think about increasig number of people suffering from allergys, go through a supermarket with open eyes and ears, read the most widespread newspapers - and you have the answer.

 

[SusanB-M1]

...meters there, it's part of the chalk-alps) and had enough water for the whole time. Some of the participants suffered from thirst after half of the distance, but refused to take some of the spring water, which is filtered and mineralized through hundreds of meters of chalk rocks.

That is interesting - i.e. that it is filtered. In Switzerland once, long ago, I remember drinking water coming straight out from the rock, but no talk about 'mustn't drink the water' then! In my head I still carry a picture of the view from the observation tower at the Jungfrau Joch to forever on one side and to the beginning of the Grande Aletsche glacier on the other, in blue sky and sunshine.