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From: flowers@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Distilled water as drinking water
Message-ID: <6508@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:13:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6508
Posted: Tue Aug  6 16:13:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:26:12 EDT
References: <1806@amdahl.UUCP> <1@drusd.UUCP> <717@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: flowers@ucla-cs.UUCP (Margot Flowers)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: distilled water, drinking water, spring water, pollution

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In article <717@cadovax.UUCP> bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) writes:
>I've heard that regardless of the type of water you get (distilled,
>spring, etc.), if it comes in a polyvinyl-chloride bottle (like most
>major water suppliers provide) instead of a glass bottle (like they used
>to have until someone decided they were too heavy), the quality of the
>water is compromised.  Something about PVC molecules being freed and
>mixing in the water.
>
>I don't know anything about chemistry.  Does this sound plausible?
>Has anyone else heard this?

I tried a few different "bottled" waters (bottled in plastic) and had to
give up because I could not stomach the plastic taste (not everyone
could taste it) .  So something must be getting in the water.