[LINK] The true cost of bottled water

[Adam Todd]

At 11:31 AM 8/02/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:

> >> sydney water isn't much better (way too much chlorine). dunno about other
> >> cities.
>
>When the boil-the-water scare was running hot in Sydney a few years ago, the
>authorities still maintained the fiction that the risk was low.  But I knew
>of two people who had serious problems with the runs at that time, so
>extrapolating from that, one could assume that 100,000 or more must have got
>infected with either Cryptosporidium or Guardia.

You know Sydney Water released in a brochure quite some time later in very 
small print, that boiling the water didn't actually do anything.

I was rather amused, because boiling water itself doesn't kill many of the 
bacteria.

However, if you boil the water, and capture the steam, the steam itself is 
far more pure and the concerning bacteria aren't present in it :)

If you're going to do that though, you might as well set up a steam turbine 
and generate some electricity :)