WEBVTT - Just Say No to... Bottled Water 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:13.200 Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.720 and there's Chuck and there's Jerry, and this is stuff 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:23.200 you should know. Unscrew the caps and glug it down. Addition, Uh, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.240 that's right. And you know what I think we should 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:33.080 say the outset here. Uh, now, no, we have to do. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.040 You know what I'm gonna say, Um that we are 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.680 using a well it's from Julia Layton, actually, one of 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.080 our writers, but it's from an old how Stuff Works article. Uh. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.120 And when I say old, I mean that it's from 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:54.160 two thousand five or six or so old unbottled water. Um, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.680 so it is old, but I mean I think that 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.680 most of the stuff in here is still true from 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.200 skucking in and researching further. But what it did do 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.399 was provide an interesting look at statistics, because you know, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.759 we had to get updated statistics on how much bottled 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.120 water we use and how big the industry's And it's 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.240 really amazing though, just to have sort of a before 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.479 after picture from two thousand six to now two thousand 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.440 I mean I saw stats from like twenty and twenty one. Yeah, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.480 there's been a tad bit of growth since two thousand 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.679 six in that industry. Yeah, I think like one statue 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.680 she cites, and we're gonna go through all this. But 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.760 just as an example, is seven billion gallons of bottled 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.479 water we're consumed by Americans in two thousand five, and 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.480 I got from twenty nineteen that is I'm sorry, that 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:51.000 is now fifteen billion gallons. That is a tremendous increase 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:55.760 in bottled water gallons per American, per year, per American, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.880 includes dumb babies. It's a lot of water. I mean, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.240 I guess it's better then if we were if we 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.680 had decided to all start drinking like that much high 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.079 fruit toast corn syrup every year. But there's a lot 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.000 of there's a lot of problems with bottled water, as 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.480 you can imagine, and maybe some you can't quite imagine yet. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.120 But we're gonna go over all that. We're gonna give 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.960 you the ins and out to bottled water. Okay, so 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.000 please forgive us. This is kind of an old article. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.400 I I that what perked my ears up, Chuck, is 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.720 that she referred to bottled waters new fangled. At one point, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.400 I said, people who who drink bottled water just think 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.720 they're so fancy, and I was like, this seems old. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.840 This seems like an old way of looking at well. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.120 It's it is interesting because I think that was true 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.400 for a while, and then I think we're to point 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:49.160 now ino where there's a large portion of America that 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.960 doesn't want to get bottled water at all anymore and 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.880 refuses to use like single plastic, single use plastics like this. Uh. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.520 But there are also still a lot of people that 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.200 you know, you go and you see him, like loading 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.440 up by the caseful to stock their house. I can 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.960 see an emergency stash of something maybe, but I'm just 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:18.280 talking like, let me give you an example. I have 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.040 to tread carefully, uh, because this is a person in 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.359 our lives. Not your life, but our lives, mine and 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.480 Emily's lives. But we have a human in our life 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.320 that came to see us and I bought a bunch 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:33.760 of you know, and when we did like, hey, I'm 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.880 going to the grocery store for the week. Uh, And 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.800 they went with us and they bought they wanted to buy, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.120 like a case of bottle of water. We're like, oh no, no, no, please, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.440 don't trying to tread carefully though, you know, we're like, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:50.280 we got really good filtration, good water. It's good, good good. Uh. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.840 And they said that they're on a thing where they 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.320 have to drink so much water. I was like, oh, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.440 that's great, uh, and we have a good filtration system here. Um. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.080 But they were like, well, it really helps me keep 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.000 up with how much I'm drink king if I do 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.200 it per bottle. And Emily just looked at me like 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.040 she's just like, just shut up, you know. She gave 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.600 me that look, and I did. But it was really 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.480 frustrating to know that it's not any easier to keep 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.440 up than drinking a glass of water. Yeah, I wonder 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.840 how much. I wonder how much. Also though that person 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.400 like really just felt like bottled water was healthier or 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.599 pure or whatever, and it wasn't. It was more than 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.680 just that. Who knows. I don't know. The reason they 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.400 gave though, was keeping up with it, Like they lined 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.120 the bottles up at the end of every day and 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.080 like shot them with a six shooter that's right right 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.599 into the ocean. They drove him out to that. But anyway, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.880 it's a personal frustration and I'm trying. I'm going to 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.719 try not to like just live on my soapbox in 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.080 this episode. But suffice it to say, I I really 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.200 don't like bottled water, and I try to. I've seen 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.880 the light, and I will only get bottled water if 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.760 I'm in a real, real pinch and have to. If 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.760 somebody's pinching you and they're like, I'm not going to 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.360 up until you buy bottled water, you do it. No. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.040 I mean sometimes when you got a kid, you're stuck 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.200 somewhere and you're like, you know, you have to hydrate 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.760 your child. You're like, oh God, I gotta get this 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.720 bottled water, and I hate it. You're out of high 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:15.599 freak toast corn, sir, right uh, And and then try to, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.520 you know, at least like, at least let me get 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.239 like spring water or something. But when the only option 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.440 is and we'll get to all this is just like 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:28.560 purified bottled tap water. I just wanna crawl under the rug. Yeah, well, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.680 come out from under the rug, Chuckley. We got to 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.560 talk about bottled water, so I just wanted to level set. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.680 So um, Okay, I think you did that pretty well. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.200 Let's talk a little a little history about bottled water. Um. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.240 And this comes to us from our friends over at 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.840 Serious Eats this part's interesting. I thought so too. So um, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.400 bottled water has been around I saw somewhere since the 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:53.159 eighteenth century in America. Certainly in the mid nineteenth century 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 there were people bottling water and selling them and usually 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.600 it was like as a remedy. It was a healthy thing, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.039 and you would buy them at like spas or something. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.200 But that's definitely the origin of bottle water. Yeah, and 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.440 perry A. You know, I'm I'm sure you remember when 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.360 we were kids that before like bottle water was as 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.080 we know, it was such a big thing. Perry A 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.200 was something you started seeing ads for on TV and 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.000 in magazines. That was just I think they were smart 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.839 enough to brand it early on, or not early on 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.800 in there. I mean they've been around since the mid 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.520 eighteen hundreds, but early on in the seventies and eighties 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.720 in America of like, you know, a fancy schmancy thing 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.880 to do. Yeah, the Patrick Bateman types really slurped it 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.719 down right. Yeah, But that was that was because of 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.600 a rebranding that they did a hundred and twenty years 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.160 after they started selling this stuff here in America. They 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.839 hired Orson Wells, They got People magazine to write about it. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.160 Just became like a thing, and it really dovetailed with 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.000 that kind of health consciousness that was starting to kind 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.560 of blossom among baby boomers, who were again all Patrick 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.440 Bateman type still are, and so Harry became like the 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.039 first bottled water that America kind of became obsessed with. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:10.160 But it was like aspirational, it was expensive, um, and 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.000 it was a status symbol, plain and simple. It wasn't 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.160 until Coke and Pepsi really got into the game that 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.920 it became like the thing that it is now. Yeah, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.240 And I think Pepsi got in first in ninety four 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.400 with their aquafine a brand, and I think Coke for 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.160 a while, and I think Coke for a while it's like, no, no, no, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.640 we're in the soda game and we don't want this 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.880 water thing cutting into our soda business because I think 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.520 they were scared by Perry because they were also marketing 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.320 it as an alternative soda, like a healthy alternative. And 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.240 then Pepsi started crushing it, and then Coke was like, well, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.360 we can't have that. No, so they launched a sani, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.280 which apparently means it means nothing. It's just supposed to 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.960 evoke like um, a kind of like a refreshing, pure 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.360 since they ation I guess, I guess um or sorry, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.680 a clean, fresh taste that a Coke spokesperson back in 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.560 the late nineties early two thousand's um. And then that 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.240 also set off a huge consolidation rush where there I mean, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.480 some of the brands that you know today a bottled 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.280 water like Arrowhead and Poland Springs and Deer Park, they've 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.280 been around since the mid nineteenth century. They got snatched 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.240 up by all these larger brands are consolidated. Um. When 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.320 people started to say, yeah, we'll drink bottle of water, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.240 and I remember very clearly in the late nineties early 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:37.959 two thousands, there was a big cultural um discussion, I guess, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.439 but also kind of chiding of people who drank bottle 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.240 of water because people like to point out, like a 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.520 lot of that stuff is coming out of the tap somewhere. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.040 It's just purified. And after all that, after the whole 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.680 discussion was done, America said, you know what we want, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.640 bottle water. That's what we're going to drink. And in 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.480 two thousand seventeen it became the most consumed beverage in 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.720 the entire United State. Eats bottled water. Yeah, Wow, how 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.319 about more than more than coffee. And I've been doing 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.520 my part to keep coffee up there statistically speaking, and 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.280 it still beats coffee, still beats coke, beats everything else. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.520 Bottled water beer beats beer. Yeah, yeah, bottled beer or 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.160 canned beer. Crazy. Uh yeah, it's hard to believe, um, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.160 but that's kind of what's happened here. Um. Julia points 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.800 out that there are a few reasons, and you mentioned 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.320 them a little bit with my mystery guests that some 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.800 of the other reasons people might drink bottle water is 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.680 they think it might be healthier or more pure, or 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.600 they might just think it tastes better than tap water, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.960 which actually could be the case. There's uh, certainly some 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.880 funky tasting tapwater in America, depending on where you live, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.080 you know, definitely, and there's a lot of people who, um, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.560 who like kind of take the opposite tack there, Like 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.520 America has some of the best, cleanest, safest drinking water 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.280 in the world, and in some parts of America it's 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.640 just straight up amazing. Like remember our episode on the 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.600 New York City's water delivery system and just how amazingly 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.000 good New York City tap water is. Like in some 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.520 places there are like the local tap water is what 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.400 they sell as spring water basically. Um, so some people 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.840 have it better than others, but in general, people who 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.840 drink tap water kind of they just take a certain 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.360 tact towards bottle water, like you're dummy for drinking that, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.400 it doesn't make any sense, whereas people with bottle waters, say, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.080 you're drinking poison right out of your kitchen sink. I 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.480 can't believe you would do that to yourself in your family. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.280 So there's kind of like a disconnect there between those 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.080 two groups. Yeah, and to be sure, we are not 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.560 talking about I mean there are some My my friend, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:51.280 uh Dave Barnhardt is a documentary filmmaker who um has 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.559 made a documentary on the water in Flint, Michigan. And 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.960 we're not talking about places where the tapwaters like legit 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.480 dangerous and it's aimful that that kind of thing goes 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.440 on in this country these days. So we're not talking 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.160 about that. We're talking about garden variety tap water that's 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.959 generally pretty safe. Um, Florida's got some funky water to 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.920 my friend, egg water. Yeah, well I went to uh 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.640 my Disney World trip, I got some pretty funky egg 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.520 water there. Yes, it can be funky. And it's not 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.439 just funky to drink, it's funky to bathe in. It's 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.200 funny to be like in the same city as it's 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.760 just it's funky stuff. For those of you have never 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.320 experienced egg water, it's called that because it smells a 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.600 lot like rotten eggs. It's got a lot of sulfur 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.680 content in it. Totally safe, nothing's wrong with it. Uh, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.000 it may even bestow some health benefits compared to water 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.400 that has a lower sulfur content. Interesting. The upshot of 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.160 it is it's funky, and it smells bad, and it 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.240 tastes bad, and you don't really want that. But unfortunately 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.080 there are some parts of Florida that do have that 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.119 as their tap water. Now, can you get a filtration 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.200 system that actually gets rid of that taste? If you 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.880 do have that coming here for sure? If you want 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.520 to get rid of everything, you just get a reverse 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.400 osmosis system, so simple as that. The problem is it 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.640 takes out everything, So there's beneficial stuff and water you 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:15.199 don't really want to take out magnesium, potassium, um, calcium, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.640 and probably a bunch of other little micro nutrients and 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.560 minerals too. That we don't even know about yet. Reverse 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.120 osmosis takes everything out, which we talked about. We did 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.200 some sort of water purification episode not too long ago. Yeah, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:28.840 I think that was our water treatment. That was a 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.280 good one. Okay, so in reverse I think we also 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.040 do one specifically on reverse osmosis too, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.240 So it takes everything out. So if you want to 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.920 get everything out, just get a reverse osmosis system and 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.600 you're fine. You should be the spokesperson. That's pretty tight. Well, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.439 I don't personally believe in reverse osmosis systems. I think 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.080 it takes too much out and you just have pure water, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.560 and I think the water that we drink is supposed 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.080 to have a little more in there. This would make 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.800 a terrible ad for reverse osmosis. The second part way 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.560 for sure, Uh, Julia, And is again from two thousand five, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.240 so this is when this was around. But it is 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.360 pretty interesting to look back at. You know, Bottle labeling 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.120 is a big thing and you can put a I 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.280 mean you can't lie on a water bottle out right, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.840 but you can get really generous with how far you 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.400 stretch things. Uh. And there was a company. It's not 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.480 around anymore called Alaska Water at one point that said 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:26.360 Alaska Premium Glacier drinking water, pure glacier water from the 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:32.439 last unpolluted frontier, and it came literally from Juneo, Alaska 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.360 tap water. Yeah, the municipal supply. Yeah, which I guess 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.560 is uh, you know, if you trace it back, it 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.360 might come originally from the last unpolluted frontier. Sure. Yeah, No, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.120 there's certainly a certain there's a bit of legitimacy to that, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:53.000 but it's it's dishonest still. Yeah, there's there was also 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.120 one called Glacier clear Water UM that until two thousand 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.640 two was owned by the Dairy Farmers of America in 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.880 Kansas City, Missouri. That was sourced in Greenville, Tennessee. So 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.000 it had nothing to do with glaciers. Like there may 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.560 have been glacial activity at the last Ice Age around 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.960 that part of Tennessee maybe, but the water in Tennessee 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.440 was not coming from any glacial activity um. And so 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.800 stuff like that that really made the rounds in the 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.960 early two thousands and made people who were into bottle 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:27.600 water look like idiots. Um. But again, even through that 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.840 kind of gauntlet that bottled water drinkers that Americans in 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.360 general had to go through on the other side, Like, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.000 the propensity for for bottled water was not beaten out 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.720 of us, it was, it just got even more homed. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.280 I guess it's it's strange that that happened, that there 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.120 was a pushback on the whole thing, and then that 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.200 pushback just got totally overwhelmed. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. Um. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.680 I think before we break, maybe we should at least 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.040 go over the kinds of bottled water that the f 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.000 d A like the terms the FDA regulates. Yes, at 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.040 least Okay, Uh, we should start with artesian It's a 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.240 great sounding word. It sounds very fancy, and that means 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.960 it comes from an artesian well, which means it comes 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.680 from a confined aquifer, which is a porous rocket's underground 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.280 and it comes from porous rock or sand formations. That. Uh, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.120 it's under a lot of pressure from these layers of 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.080 rock or clay and it forces that water up. I 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.880 think we might have talked about artesian water, but maybe not. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.680 There's no way in the last fourteen years we've never 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.960 mentioned artesian water, you know. I think so there's also 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.360 mineral water, mineral water, Yeah, I do too. A lot. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.560 Mineral water is just water that has a higher um 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.240 higher content of total dissolved solids, which sounds gross, and 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.560 it can be gross, for sure, but it's more talking 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.600 about things like I mentioned earlier, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.640 stuff that gives water taste, distinctive taste, and in particular, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.000 mineral water taste. UM. So, I think the standard because 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.360 you said the FDA regulate system. We'll talk more about 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.240 that in a little bit, but the FDA standards that 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.520 to be mineral water has to be spring water that 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.480 has at least two parts per million of total dissolved solids. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.560 Regular old spring water, non mineral water has fifty. It's 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.040 a big difference that your tongue can pick up on. Uh. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.040 Then you got your naturally sparkling, sparkling water. Uh. And 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.600 this is yes, folks, there is water that comes from 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.520 a spring or an artesian well that is naturally carbonated. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.240 And even if they take that carbonation out and then 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.840 put it back in, according to the FDA, you have 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.040 to recarbonate it to the levels that it once was 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.480 naturally to qualify for that language. Yeah, And I went 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:48.880 and looked, and I was sad to see that my 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.840 favorite Sam Pellegrino water. It uh, it is artificially carbonated 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.040 after the fact, and that's sad because I was looking 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:03.000 into this and apparently um natural carbonation, which like volcano 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.960 is heating the rock that the that holds the aquifer 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.520 and it turns the carbon into a gas, and so 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.040 it's naturally carbonated. Apparently it's much softer, less harsh on 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.679 the throat and the stomach. Um. But it's really really 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.320 hard to keep water carbonated and then get it to market. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.000 So they take the water out and then recarbonated and 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.520 then sell it. So it's really hard to find naturally 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.399 carbonated water. And I think it's very expensive too. I 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.560 like that Tobo Chico. I don't believe that that is 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.960 naturally carbonated. I I'm sure it's probably not because it 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.280 is good, though I agree it makes me sneeze every 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.000 time I drink it. But that comes to a glass bottle. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.600 It tickles your nose, it does, and we don't buy 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.080 cases in cases of it. It's a treat, yeah, and 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:48.960 it does come in a glass bottle. But Chuck, I've 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.879 seen you. You You have a ritual where every time you 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.840 finish off a bottle of smash it on the ground 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.280 and shout say yahoo. Yeah. And sometimes I'll smash it 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.600 against like something hard it and then hold the broken 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.240 bottleneck in my hand and you can't tempt anyone to 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.760 come at me. Yeah, you'll say, any takers. Uh, never 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.760 had any takers either, he knows you never have. It's 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.360 very menacing. What else we got. We got the purified 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.800 water I was talking about. And this is when you're 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.720 talking about the dissanis and the aquafinas. Is when they 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:23.240 take public tap water uh and they purify it. It 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:27.800 comes from in other words, of municipal water source. Uh. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.760 And that's pretty much the long and short of that. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.360 And I mean, if you're talking about pure water, this 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.879 is like the most artificial water. It's the most heavily 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.159 treated water, because yeah, you're taking tap water and then 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.720 you're bottling it and selling it. And the FDA says, Okay, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.120 there's some things you have to do if you're selling 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.240 purified water. It has to be if you're selling it 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.159 from like a municipal source. Um. You you have to 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.600 either filter it, you have to distill it. You have 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.399 to run it through that old reverse osmosis. You have 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.440 to take some oxygen and subjected to electricity and create 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.040 ozone and then infuse the water with that. So it 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.600 goes and reacts with all the stuff in there and 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.360 and UM purifies it, or you could run it through 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.280 UV light treatment or some combination of that. But that's 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.720 what purified water is. And as a matter of fact, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.720 it didn't realize this chuck. But you can buy and 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.240 I could not find what labels this was, but you 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.719 can buy water that was originally nonpotable water, meaning like 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.200 you should not be drinking this is not for human consumption. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.200 UM that can be treated through these these ways and 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.000 it becomes it can be bottled and sold as purified 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.880 water because the end result is the same. It's almost 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.080 devoid of anything but water molecules. Yeah, and I think, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.560 and we'll get into the different f d A versus 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.280 e p A standards, because e p A s who 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:48.040 regulates your tap water. But I believe that e p 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.080 A standard or the FDA standard for bottled water allows 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.280 more poop in your water than the e p A 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.200 does in your tap water. Right, Yeah, The e p 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.200 A says you can have zero poop in your water, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.640 and the FDA says, hey, hey, this relax a little bit. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.560 Let's let's take our hang ups off of the American public. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.880 Oh man, what's wrong with a little poop in your water? Right? Uh, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.119 you've got spring water, which I love. Uh. There's nothing 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.800 better than if you can drink directly from a spring 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.879 when you're hiking in the woods, cupped in your hand, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.800 like Daniel Boone did. Just the best thing in the world. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.040 It comes from a protected underwater spring and it flows 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.000 to the surface on its own. It just bubbles right 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.720 up there. It's a really a wonderful sight to behold 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.040 if you've never seen a natural spring. I love it. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.000 I love it. And then it's collected there at the 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.680 surface in the case of bottling, or maybe they may 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.760 drill down if they can't get, you know, to the surface, 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.800 but it's like a sanitary, protected area that it's drilled 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.360 down to where what's feeding the spring. Like they might 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.400 just go to an area that's more accessible, I guess, uh. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.959 And then but if they do that, though, they have 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.440 to have it has to be the same composition as 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.680 as it does from the source. Yes, Hey, I'm gonna 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.480 put three words together, and you try to convince me 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:12.560 that they don't evoke an image of a future medical kink, sanitary, 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.440 protected whole and that awful and then an awful collection 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.840 of words. Uh yeah, it's uh yeah, that could be 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.840 the album new album title for Diarrhea Planet. I guess so, 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.879 but it's kind of the opposite of a diarrhea planet 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.080 if you think about it. Yeah, I think that's the twist. Yeah, hey, 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.480 diarrhea Planet. I hope you guys are still doing it. 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.720 Uh so, then you got well water is the last 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.440 one before we go to our break, and that comes 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:47.800 from a well it does. Simple simple. It's a new one. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.919 I'm testing out because I've been using easy peasy too much. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.879 Did you just say simple fimple? Yeah, but really you could. 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.879 You could make anything. You could use any consonant or 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:02.640 combination for simple, pimp. That's kind of gross. You could 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:07.119 say simple simple, I guess, but that's unnecessarily complex. I 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.639 like easy beasy, lemon squeezy. Yeah, I do too, But again, 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.640