Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized

[Steely Dan]

?? I never knew that.?? Then what do you drink if you're in a hell hole of a holler?

As for what to drink, I use a Brita filter. The Brita takes out the fluoride so I use ACT after I brush my teeth. Ask you doctor what's best for your area.

 

[JustJudy]

I learned not to drink distilled water while I was working at the hospital pharmacy. I just double checked and came across these articles.

http://www.mercola.com/article/water/distilled_water.htm

...Fasting using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure. Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.

Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic. The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Distilled water, being essentially mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Notably, carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive. Many metals are dissolved by distilled water."

The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (i.e. cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals into the urine.

The more mineral loss, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.

A growing number of health care practitioners and scientists from around the world have been advocating the theory that aging and disease is the direct result of the accumulation of acid waste products in the body.

There is a great deal of scientific documentation that supports such a theory. A poor diet may be partially to blame for the waste accumulation....

http://www.livestrong.com/article/372479-what-are-the-dangers-of-drinking-distilled-water/


...Background

Distilled water is actually boiled until it evaporates. The vapor is condensed back into liquid form. The distillation process robs the water of all minerals and impurities. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, carbon dioxide in the air dissolves in distilled water which makes its pH acidic - usually between five and six tenths and seven. To neutralize distilled water, they suggest adding 1/8 teaspoon baking soda or a drop of ammonia. Some believe that drinking water that has an acidic pH is dangerous to your health.

Mineral Deficiencies

Drinking distilled water robs your body of its natural source for many minerals essential to good health. This results in mineral loss in the body with increases your risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, hypertension, coronary artery disease and premature aging.

Tooth Decay

Because distilled water does not contain any fluoride, dentists are beginning to see an increased number of cavities in young children who drink bottled water. Consumers believe bottled, distilled water is safer than the water supplies in their local communities....

*sigh* Thank you, Steely.......you may have solved a worrisome puzzle for me. Trying to be short: Caught the stomach bug going around, couple months back. Made lotsa chicken broth, gelatin, & doc suggested distilled water while sick. Bug left but I've stayed on distilled H2o. (Thought it would be healthier, maybe I was too cheap to replace my Brittalike water filters)

Random foot/leg cramps began. Couldn't figure why. Made no sense. I take quality supps, wheat grass & other green stuff, eat mostly clean, work out daily. Currently: have added extra magnesium & bananas/potatoes (for the potassium) which mostly chased the cramps away, but if I skip my mags, by 2nd day, the cramps want to return. Also, a nonrelated (i thought) recent BPressure reading came up borderline high, instead of my usual borderline low. The acid ph thing: after ur post I spit (sorry) on my old ph tape & yep, acidic ...tmi, but had ill health, years back & was worried it was making a comeback.

I like to think I check out what goes into my body, but never researched the darn distilled water. Besides your research, I found numerous other studies, etc with the same cautionary results. I'm hopeful you gave a big missing puzzle piece.

Oops...long post after all. A poem memorized in grade school said, in part,"...Drop a pebble in the water. Just a splash, and its gone. But there are half a million ripples going on. And on. And on...." thank you sir for the pebble

 

[LinasK]

Since I live in the U.S. I already have to pay to have water. It is not free. Which is why I don't understand people buying bottled water on top of that, unless they live in one of those places where the water ignites. Holy Moly!

Instead of Dune, I was thinking Solient Green, but maybe I am exposed to way too much poverty and crime because of it, rising prices, frenzied minds. S O L I E N T G R E E N!

I buy bottled water for my drinking water because when I lived in San Diego, the water was one Carbon short of being Carcinogenic!!!

 

[JustJudy]

I buy bottled water for my drinking water because when I lived in San Diego, the water was one Carbon short of being Carcinogenic!!!

Oh geez...actually I think i remember that a few yrs back. A byproduct of chlorine in irrigation water that had seeped in....not unsafe though (sarcasm) here in LVegas perchloriate (used in rocket fuel & fertilizer) turned up in 97ish sourced from industrial runoff above stream from us. Said it wasn't unsafe but conducted cleanup project anyway...lol.

 

[Show Me]

I buy bottled water for my drinking water because when I lived in San Diego, the water was one Carbon short of being Carcinogenic!!!

I remember as a kid, umpteen million years ago, we and everyone bought huge bottles of bottled water to put in the water dispenser in San Diego. It totally sucked then, but probably wasn't as carcinogenic.

 

[Show Me]

I actually have decent water where I live in Missouri. (at least as far as I know it' safe enough) The absolute best tasting water in the entire world, bottled water or whatever was a couple of old water fountains at my old job and my former house which we sold years ago.

I think the calcification and minerals had built up in the water and made it taste so good. Where I live the water comes from the same source as my old home but the pipes are far newer and the water doesn't taste near as good.

 

[EmmaliLucia]

Steely Dan. I think I just had a freaking heart attack reading about the distilled water.


Is tap water really safer? I mean I live out in Portland and we've had the occasional e-coli outbreak (Birds shitting in our damn reservoir), so I always just assumed filtered was better. But doesn't filtered water filter out all of the minerals also?

 

[Steely Dan]

Steely Dan. I think I just had a freaking heart attack reading about the distilled water.


Is tap water really safer? I mean I live out in Portland and we've had the occasional e-coli outbreak (Birds shitting in our damn reservoir), so I always just assumed filtered was better. But doesn't filtered water filter out all of the minerals also?

I don't think so. I know they filter fluoride.

 

[Donamena]

Damn, I'm freaking. So WTF do I drink? Swamp water?? Thanks, Steely, you're a Major Dude!!!

 

[mysticrose]

Donamena do your stores just sell the regular bottled vs distilled water by the gallon there ?

Thats what I would look into or a really good filter system for your faucet....

 

[Steely Dan]

http://www.brita.net/faqs_household.html#4

The BRITA water filter cartridge only partially removes the hardness from drinking water. This part is temporary hardness, which causes scale deposits during cooking. It does not remove all of the minerals from the water. It reduces the concentration of calcium and magnesium with cation ion exchange resins, but theses substances are not completely removed as in desalination systems or industrial plants that use reverse osmosis or distillation processes, for example.

Does the removal of temporary hardness affect calcium levels?
Yes, but mostly in the form of temporary hardness or limescale which is not a good source of dietary calcium. This will not have a significant effect on the calcium intake of those on a normal diet.

How does a water filter cartridge work?
BRITA cartridges contain a combination of ion exchange resin and activated carbon. The carbon absorbs chlorine, pesticides and organic pollutants, improves taste, and eliminates odours and discoloration. It also contains an inhibitor that prevents bacterial growth. The ion exchange resin removes the temporary hardness, which causes limescale; it also significantly reduces levels of metals such as copper and lead.

 

[EmmaliLucia]

I don't think so. I know they filter fluoride.

Yeah but Portland is the biggest city in the US that doesn't fluoridate their water so that is easily the least important thing to worry about.

 

[Paulette]

How would that work? Nevada, where I live, has an agency that oversees water rights, etc. for the state. We have reservoirs & rivers & snow melt that feeds them & an agency that oversees them too.

Do you think for one minute the state or people are going to allow Nestle or anyone else to buy our water? Then re-sell it back to us??? This guy best get his head back to earth & out of the clouds.

 

[Donamena]

Donamena do your stores just sell the regular bottled vs distilled water by the gallon there ?

Thats what I would look into or a really good filter system for your faucet....

My hubs, a doctor himself, wanted the distilled water. I forget his reasoning, my mind having exploded from all of the info on distilled. We get it delivered. The local excuse for water allegedly comes from an aquifer in Turkey Creek. I'm sure they meant a turkey's ass, found in the creek. It's hard, hard, & tastes awful.

 

[ArianeEmory]

Jumping in randomly, but my hair and skin are much happier since I bought a $26 filtered shower head from Amazon.

 

[Steely Dan]

My hubs, a doctor himself, wanted the distilled water. I forget his reasoning, my mind having exploded from all of the info on distilled. We get it delivered. The local excuse for water allegedly comes from an aquifer in Turkey Creek. I'm sure they meant a turkey's ass, found in the creek. It's hard, hard, & tastes awful.

BBM

 

[mysteriew]

I read a T shirt the other day that read "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." I immediately thought of Nestle.

 

[Donamena]

:floorlaugh:English is not my first language. I meant that the water is full of calcium & other junk that eventually deteriorates the pipes. Jeez, Steely, mind somewhere else?:nevermind:

 

[deelytful1]

OMG.. did not read the full thread because I'm just too irritated...
My 1984 moment (2084 now) is us all wearing oxygen masks that are of course gauged and monitored by whatever corporation owns the oxygen at that point. Commercials everywhere to buy the "best oxygen" and then if we pay $15 more per month we can have the "upgraded oxygen" When does it stop? Better question.. When as consumers do we MAKE it stop??? Sigh...

 

[deelytful1]

My hubs, a doctor himself, wanted the distilled water. I forget his reasoning, my mind having exploded from all of the info on distilled. We get it delivered. The local excuse for water allegedly comes from an aquifer in Turkey Creek. I'm sure they meant a turkey's ass, found in the creek. It's hard, hard, & tastes awful.

Distilled water has absolutely no vitamins, minerals left or added into it.. It is purified to it's purest form. Most drinking water has these "added" vitamins, minerals because the powers that be think they are helpful (like potassium)... another decision made by corporations that you need to read the fine print on the label in order to know. Look at the ingredients in a bottle of Dasani.. It is NOT just water.

If I'm eating a healthy diet WHY do I need extra potassium? BECAUSE if someone dies from an eating disorder, no one can say they died from drinking too much water and drowning their organs (Potassium regulates the salt/water ratio and can help avoid water intoxication)

MOO... Capitalism made and is now killing this country because of greed and total lack of any morality.. again MOO,,, sigh,