Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20130531201448

I think you misunderstood me -- I understand distillation very well. It's super-easy and you can do it in your kitchen. It also, incidentally, can be used to make moonshine or any number of other spirits. It's reverse osmosis that I don't understand.

I looked up Crystal Springs' website and it seems that they are quite a large and far-reaching company that draws from multiple sources, which it does not list. They also make Arizona tea, which uses high fructose corn syrup, which is also very poisonous, so I'll admit I'm a little suspicious of them. They also mention that they sell several different types of drinking water, from spring water to "purified drinking water" (tap water run through extra filters) to fluoridated water. I'm not sure which type your coolers are, but, after reading that last bit, I trust them even less -- if your parents are buying the fluoridated shit, they're just wasting their money because it's essentially no different from tap water, and if they're buying the "drinking water," they could get the same results much more cheaply by installing one of those Brita filters on their tap water faucet or getting one of those filter pitchers.