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When Dad took us out to work in the beans, baling hay, or what came next we had a glass gallon bottle of water. We all drank out of it, and got along just fine. At home water from the tap was all we had. To day the wife buys special vitamin water. That tastes like crp. The water may do some good, but may be a little for me at 76. I do like the little plastic bottles of water, the wife also buys. I can carry one on my tractor real easy, and keep a couple in my pickup. Any of you use the small plastic bottles of water. If not what do you do for water. Stan
 
I have bunch of them plastic bottles that have drank out of. I just fillem out out of faucet or water in cooler again and again.
 
If I'm out with the tractor I take one of those big jugs of arizona iced tea that I've polished off and fill 'em with water and stash 'em in the shade. Sometimes put a bottle of water in the tool box.
 

We use the small plastic bottles that once contained soft drinks. They are a bit more substantial than those water bottles. We just refill them with tap water, store them in the refridgerator, and they are ready to go.
 
Good ole well water put in those plastic bottles here. Keep some in the shop fridge alongside the Natural Light.
Richard in NW SC
 
In the summer I carry a 2qt. insulated jug with lemon flavored ice tea. I also carry a cloth insulated bag with my eats and a couple of barley pops for the later afternoon and the tractor drive back home.
Loren
 
I've got a 1 gal insulated drinking jug full of ice water with me at all times, even when it's -40F. Don't drink anything else.
 
Soft drink bottles, fill 1/4 to 1/3 and put them in the freezer. When needed take one, fill with tap water and am set to go with a bottle of ice water
 
Water at our place has a lot of iron and some sulfur. We don't drink it or cook with it. Water at the farm is perfect. And that's what I grew up drinking. Just like out of a bottle. Here now I burn through quite a bit of water when working. I buy the bottled water by the case. 24 bottles and at the place I stop in the morning it's around 5 bucks. 6 or 8 bottles go into a cooler with ice. Take one out during the day, put one in! Been drinking more water recently instead of sports drinks. Feel a lot better ! By the way I work road construction and it's not out of the ordinary for me to drink almost 2 gallons in a 10-12 hour day when it's hot. Kinda cool here now and consumption is down !
 
(quoted from post at 15:12:07 11/03/18) When Dad took us out to work in the beans, baling hay, or what came next we had a glass gallon bottle of water. We all drank out of it, and got along just fine. At home water from the tap was all we had. To day the wife buys special vitamin water. That tastes like crp. The water may do some good, but may be a little for me at 76. I do like the little plastic bottles of water, the wife also buys. I can carry one on my tractor real easy, and keep a couple in my pickup. Any of you use the small plastic bottles of water. If not what do you do for water. Stan
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Gallon jugs from milk or orange juice, keep one in every truck and tractor on the place, even keep one in the boat.
Good water right out of the well 2 years later tastes just like the day it was filled.
Left in the tractor overnight it stays cool till near noon then when my darling brings lunch out to me she brings a full cold one with her to exchange.
 
Reporting of municipal water quality is (intended to be) universally done. EPA licensed laboratories process these samples every day. My sister was the manager of one lab for 25 years. They take their job seriously. I further understand that private well water is usually not tested. It should be, especially if it is from a shallow well, or an area where heavy metals are found. In my opinion, once a source is shown to be fine to drink, plastic bottles should be refilled and used. Remember the bottl we throw away is worth 20 times the value of the contents. Jim
 
(quoted from post at 16:31:24 11/03/18) I have bunch of them plastic bottles that have drank out of. I just fillem out out of faucet or water in cooler again and again.
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send empty pop bottles to Detroit & have a guy in a really old neighborhood fill them with tap water and send them back. :twisted:
 
If you have great tasting tap water count your blessings. There are plenty of us that do not. Have a shallow well at this place that will pass a test after a gallon of bleach. Otherwise it has critters swimming in it. Use a reverse osmosis and UV light setup to make drinking water.

Last place I lived had public water, but the sulfate levels were so high, you were always ready for a colonoscopy.
 
I sit on top of a high alkaline artesian aquifer. If you go down deep enough you can tap into it. My water PH is about 9. The same water you buy in the fancy plastic bottles comes out my faucet. There is at least 3 water bottling plants within 50 miles of me.

So I just drink the water out of my faucet. Put in old gatorade or coke bottles and freeze it.
 
I use plastic bottles in my truck. I bought a Yeti 1 gallon cooler this year and fill that with tap, well, water with ice for work. That jug sure works well for keeping things cold.

Vito
 
We had 3 wells on our farm. None deeper than 40 feet. Fed the cows, pigs, chickens, and us 8 kids. I listened to a lot of heavy metal growing up. (The milk cows liked polka) am I gonna be OK?
 
Always well water here. We have good water, as a kid with Dad logging or in the mill a couple big jugs with ice we all drank out of, and we drank a lot. Some places we logged had good mountain springs we drank from. My grandfather's farm had a great spring that ran into a trough by the road, when I lived there I filled a 5 gallon cooler added a block of ice I made in the fridge and took it to work for the guys, we used cups then. People used to stop and fill jugs at this trough.
 
Talk about selling refrigerators to Eskimos, Now you can sell water by the bottle (that costs more than gasolene)to people who have who have water at the faucet at less than 1 cent per gallon. Duh!!
 
We used to hit the windmill water for post-haymow drinks as a kid, it is still there and still works, but my wife buys cases of water at Aldi for $2.29, hard to beat that price. Old fridge in the barn has three cases in right now, I like a little squirt of the energy/flavor stuff in a bottle, or just straight.
 
When visiting my mothers aunt I've drank water that was collected from rain water off the roof of her house in a cistern. She lived to be more than 100 years old. I've also drank water directly from the Mississippi and I'm still here.
 
Experts say you should not reuse plastic bottles for drinking water. Issues with bacteria growth and chemical leaching is accelerated with each use or prolonged storage.

We always shared water jugs back in the day if they were around. I drank out of a lot of garden hoses too, just let it run long enough to get cool water. Dad always had a pitcher of water in the fridge, not sure if it ever got washed, just topped off. Man, would he get mad if someone didn't refill it.
 
(quoted from post at 18:33:41 11/03/18) We had 3 wells on our farm. None deeper than 40 feet. Fed the cows, pigs, chickens, and us 8 kids. I listened to a lot of heavy metal growing up. (The milk cows liked polka) am I gonna be OK?
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No, you won't be OK, you're going to die.

Like the rest of us.

When I was small I used to crush mercury battery guts and collect the beads of mercury. Wound up with a good puddle. I used to shine up silver dimes with it. Really pretty. Usually put them in my mouth. Now at 70 I'm having trouble remembering where I put what. Probably because of the mercury. None of you guys are having that problem, are you?
 
When I was on city council of a municipality, we had a water quality issue and were ordered by the state to provide bottled water for pregnant women and small children. A couple days in, the city clerk asked me to come by the office on my way home from work. He had me fill sample bottles from each of the types of bottled water we had in the office. Couple days later, I again stopped at the office and we called KDHE and asked about the results. Samples 1-5 which came from our municipal wells were fine, but samples 6-9 all were high in nitrates, the problem that started the water rationing ordeal. When we told the lady those were samples from the bottled water, she called us liars and said she would be in town in a couple hours. I returned to city hall to be there when she arrived.
She took samples, hen departed with a sneer.
Couple days later we called her office. When we said who it was calling, she was suddenly out of the office. Third day, instead of Joe, the clerk calling, I called and just gave my name. She was right on the line, but when I said where I was, she hung up. Supervisor later called and told us that we would be working with a different KDHE rep.
Most bottled water is taken straight from a municipal water supply. Sounds ok? How many miles of lead pipe do you have on your farm? What about asbestos lines? Many older cities have both, and some have serious issues, but they still sell bottled water from them.
Water is life. Water will absorb nearly every chemical it comes in contact with whether it be iron, mercury, or orange juice. Some of that stuff in trace amounts will eventually kill us.
I lost a sister to cancer of the appendix, and her husband passed a few years later from colon cancer. Whether the pollutants which caused them came from water or food is unknown.
When I was a kid, dad carried a water jar. he used a glass jar and wrapped it with newspaper. Many layers, then bound with baler twine. I can still remember the taste. When I stared working construction in the summers, I got a thermos gallon container. It had a different taste than dads glass jar. Same was true for my Army canteen. I managed to get a metal one at one point. Like it better than that old OD plastic one.
Now I get my water from a deep well. I have a reverse osmosis system. Too a while to get used to the taste. Saw a feature iirc with Mike Rowe where he went to a place that made ultra pure water. He commented that it was weird to drink, absolutely no sensation of flavor. They also said the ultra pure water was dangerous to drink in quantity.
 
I did the same thing with mercury. I don't remember where it came from. If it was dropped on the floor it disappeared. I don't think I have any symptoms from mercury. Maybe I do? Stan
 
Will just rewind this story. Back in the late 50s when I was a kid one of the families in church also had a farm. They were on the ridge and got enough wind to run a windmill for their water. One summer Betty told Allen the water was getting a funny taste the past couple of days. Allen climbed up to the tank and found the hatch was ajar. There was a nice big old barn owl floating around in the tank. Yuuuummmy!
 
I'm still drinking water from the tap regardless of where I'm at, but I try to take my own with me when I leave the house. Just heard to many stories about bottled water being filled with water from lord knows where. Don't make no sense paying 4 to 8 dollars a gallon for water that probably gonna kill you anyway. As the subject title says, it's a wonder we all ain't dead,
 

I used to use 1 liter pop bottles. Put them in an old sock and hung them off any handy place on the tractor. Nothing like 98 degree heat and a sip of 98 degree water! My wife bought me a 2 quart stainless thermos type rig with a very substantial handle. Now I use that. Used to use plain ice water but I've sort of switched to Gatorade since I get leg cramps so easily at night now. Seems to help a lot in that line. I mix a little pink lemonade mix in too to cut the Gatorade flavor.
 
"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]I've sort of switched to Gatorade since I get leg cramps so easily at night now[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

We use <a href="http://sqwincher.com/">Sqwincher</a> powder packs.

Better taste than Gatorade and has less sugar.

Works good on eliminating the leg cramps.
 
Google Walkerton Water Disaster. Seven died and many left with life long conditions from drinking municipal water the tests of which were deliberately fudged.Ben
 
When my water starts to taste funny I take the cover off the well and find either a dead snake or a mouse.Scoop them out,throw in a half cup of bleach,and don't drink it until the taste and smell is gone.I hauled some water years ago,but it is not a good paying load.With Hannafords supermarkets selling it for 99 cents a gallon,and the dollar store doing the same,not much gets back to the trucker.
 
Well water here. Pretty neutral taste in the house but I put a bubbler in the barn and over there it has that wonderful old-galvanized-pipe flavor that takes me back to being a kid.

Keep a dented old stainless Thermos on whatever tractor I?m using at the time.
 
My dad always preached that ice water was not good for you. Something that a Chinese kid told him in the 20's when he was in school. The Chinese families always drank hot drinks, never iced according to the story. Here's some more on the topic if you are interested ...
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(quoted from post at 20:25:05 11/03/18) I send empty pop bottles to Detroit &amp; have a guy in a really old neighborhood fill them with tap water and send them back. :twisted:
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Well then you are smarter than those City of Flint Bozos were when they switched from Detroit's water to the Flint River.
 
Growing up working hard in very hot weather in hay fields and other jobs, all we ever drank was ice water with as much ice as we could get in it.No one I knew was ever the worse for it,I probably average over a gallon a day in the Summer these days of ice water,never leave the house without it.
 
I use purex jugs or half gallon juice jugs or a stainless steel coffee mug with water straight from the cold water tap. I am not buying water when it is almost free from the tap. In my younger days at a community branding we all drank water from a common jug. I always figured the neighbors germs just helped strengthened my immune system. Bud
 
Certainly not all well water is good to drink every where.
Even two wells within 20 feet of each other can be drastically different quality depending on depth.
Use to live in Pensacola, FL on municipal water supply. It was treated so heavily you could smell the chlorine fumes when you opened a tap. Did not use for drinking or cooking, only bottled spring water.
Now we are in Crystal River on our own well water.
I drink it and cook with it, but the Mrs. only drinks spring water.

If your reusing plastic water bottles, do yourself a favor and use new ones each week.
 
Well, my dad had more than one crazy "live by my rules" thing that I endured. Another one he had was about drinking water with meals. He claimed that it made for lazy chewing and that a person swallowed food not properly chewed. He used to say it washed your food down .... ha! Actually, I think he was correct with that analysis. I sometimes drink liquids with meals but I try not to wash down food with it.
 
I remember installing that TRASITE water line , our first time experience with it was back in 62 with the new streets project in a new subdivision i was working on , It was easy to install and fast but had to be bedded with sand . And you have to be instructed on how to install the gskts . We did a little over two miles of this stuff and now today if those people knew what there drinking water flowed thru i am sure there would be a ruckus made over it . The water here in the town where i live comes to us thru god only knows what and our lines are old real old with constant line breaks and lots of BROWN water issues . We use a Pure water filter on our drinking water and lucky to get a month per filter cartridge . Went to take a shower one evening and the water went from clear to dark brown while i was getting the temp set .
 
I use them but I hate the idea of them .The end of mankind will be caused by empty water bottles clogging all the roadways.
 
Wasn't the governor's office in Lansing the big push behind that fiasco? The water supply switch was imposed on the city of Flint as a cost savings?
 
At work, I operate our demineralized water plant- we take lake water and clean it up to the point where it will no longer conduct electricity. During winter months, I'll fill my drinking glass from the system output, but usually with a little Mio or similar flavoring in it. It has not bothered my system to date.

At home we drink lake water purified by the city, not quite clean enough for work, but still quite tasty, and my cows have the whitest teeth around!
 
Nothing like the great taste of old fashion gravity fed Spring water. Our Spring on the farm watered 50 head of milkers and some young stock. Ran full time in the kitchen never went dry. We dog it up one time when I was a kid. The Spring is in the middle of the North field about 3 feed down and planked over and we plowed right over it. The planks were 5" thick. Went back to the old home place this summer and yep I had a drink and brought a jug full home with me to Fl. . Old Scovy.
 
I grew up in a very rural area where we only had well water and it was hard for those old enough to remember what that means.
We put up 6000-10000 square bales per year by hand--stacked. That was in addition to milking, corn and tobacco.
We lined up after every two loads of hay- as my Dad wanted it that way -we loaded before coming to the barn to unload and stood in line to get a drink of water out of a gourd dipper that we passed down the line from person to person including the African Americans whom I cherished as friends loved their stories.
We Never seemed to have any adverse affects and I wish I could go back! :)
 
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