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hammerforlife
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May 28, 2007 - 11:35 AM |
 
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| so you could add distilled water to our tap water to bring down the ppm's and make it potable, heheh. |
I do almost the same thing. Instead I use whisky. |
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robnot
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May 28, 2007 - 12:02 PM |
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lol |
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yu888
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May 28, 2007 - 12:35 PM |
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mrpango
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May 28, 2007 - 01:12 PM |
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hoho, well I ususally drink boiled water since I make tea, and whatnot. Think the best choice is to start buying bottled stuff again! |
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DesertSpider
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Joined: Jan 19, 2007
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Location: SHANGHAI, CHINA
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May 28, 2007 - 07:04 PM |
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Where's Brita when you need them... ???? |
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mrpango
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May 28, 2007 - 11:42 PM |
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DS you just gave me a great idea - Dad is coming over from the UK on Sunday, going to request some brita filters lol |
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yu888
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May 29, 2007 - 10:58 AM |
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Brita does nothing to remove heavy metals, only an RO filter will do that. Britta is mostly aa activated carbon filter. It filters SOME of the following out: Chlorine, Lead, Asbestos, Turbidity, Benzene, HydroCarbons, TTHMs, Cryptosporidium/Giardia. No idea of efficiency though. But it does make water taste better in many cases since Activated carbon removes odors.
But a Brita filter to use on the cheap alcohols here could be a good idea  Brita filtered Baijiu anyone?  |
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hammerforlife
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May 29, 2007 - 11:34 AM |
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Yu's fast becoming the resident water expert on here! Keep this up and I will be able to offer you a job |
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yu888
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May 29, 2007 - 11:54 AM |
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amazing how motivating knowledge is about the one thing we all take for granted... clean water.
One important lesson I learned...just because its clear looking doesnt mean its clean...sigh. |
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tlm66
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May 29, 2007 - 12:17 PM |
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Here is a 'China' story about water: I was walking through the garden area of our complex(One Park Ave) and saw a water delivery guy wreck his bicycle. One of the large bottles of water was punctured and water was spilling out (there was a hole and a crack in the bottle). He proceeded to roll the bottle over so no water was spilling and put a plastic bag over the hole. Then, he pulled out a lighter and started melting the plastic bag over the crack and the hole to seal it. He then picked up the bottle and another one and carried them right into the apartment building for delivery. |
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yu888
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May 29, 2007 - 01:03 PM |
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sounds about right. unfortunately, the delivery guy would otherwise be required to pay for that bottle and the water. 50rmb plus the water, probably some 15rmb adds up to 6-7 meals for such a worker. Sad but true. |
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DesertSpider
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May 29, 2007 - 10:10 PM |
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Yeah... filter 'schmilter' - all you are doing by drinking clean water is doing harm to your immune system's future ability to fight off potentially deadly / dangerous diseases. You need to drink water right out of the toilet and chase that with a water from rinsing an ashtray !! Your body will be in better practice for little things like the common cold.... it's all about conditioning people, so let's get to drinking !!!! hahahaha |
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scottyg
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May 29, 2007 - 11:07 PM |
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I haven't drunk water since I discovered Heineken was cheaper than Evian here. |
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yu888
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May 30, 2007 - 01:06 AM |
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i dunno about that, but Reeb is surely cheeper than bottled water. :S |
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bougie
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May 30, 2007 - 07:15 AM |
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^ could that be because it is made of gutter piss ? |
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DesertSpider
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May 31, 2007 - 11:43 PM |
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If you have a strong enough immune system - what does it really matter ?
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yu888
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guel27
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June 01, 2007 - 01:53 PM |
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what makes evian expensive? |
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LaVecchiaSignora
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June 01, 2007 - 01:54 PM |
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How about the shower filter yu888? |
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yu888
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June 01, 2007 - 01:55 PM |
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maybe they sell to mostly people who are backwards...
kinda like their name. E V I A N >< N A I V E ...hmmmm..... |
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Lotta
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June 01, 2007 - 02:19 PM |
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Thats a real good anagram ! |
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Lotta
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June 01, 2007 - 02:25 PM |
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Though this is not meant to be commenting on any one's food habits .. and slightly off topic.
It always amuses me in the Check out line in Carrefour, my cart is loaded with cartons of milk, while the westerners' are loaded with evian.... ofcourse the locals always stare at my cart ( they have a great way of looking as though trying to memorize everything, I have in my cart) with a look of horrified fascination that I should buy so much milk... |
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yu888
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June 01, 2007 - 03:39 PM |
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| How about the shower filter yu888? |
I saw one. will talk to them next week about putting together a set of water products that make sense for most of us. God, it probably wont be cheap to get a shower filter to remove chlorine and stuff, a tap filter to remove pesticides and such AND a drinking water RO filter...  but in the end i think it will be worth it... i think next week i should have a beter lead on it. ( I have staff asking around for me... ) |
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robnot
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June 02, 2007 - 11:48 PM |
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I wonder what the condition of the water is like that they use in making all the commercially available juices and soft drinks here.
maybe they are as bad as the tap water? |
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DesertSpider
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June 03, 2007 - 09:15 PM |
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| what makes evian expensive? |
One thing: FEAR
The market fears "dirty" water, so the market will bear a higher price... |
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