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Dasani does suck. BUT. It is pure marketing genius, because it is bottled at Coca-Cola bottling plants, and is the same water used to make Coke, just sans carbonation or syrup. AND IT COSTS MORE THAN THE SODA. Seriously, whoever thought up that plan should be at least vice-president of something by now.
Turbidity just sounds so bad.
Thanks for doing a tasting – I’m always interested in comparisons.
And most bottle waters come from municipal tap services.
Dasani (owned by Coca-Cola) is filtered municipal tap water, bottled in Brampton, Ont., and Calgary. (Pepsi owns Aquafina, which is also sourced from municipalities (again – an Ontario source- not mentioned in the article – but in an article I read in the last two days but can’t find!) http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/consumers/bottled-water.html
A general suggestion is that if you don’t like the taste of your municipal water source, buy a cheap filter.
As a bottled water consumer myself, I buy it for the convenience of portability (yah, yah, a trip to MEC to get a hard plastic bottle would be a better choice – only when your kids actually bring back the container!!).
i almost always drink pellegrino, but do buy a case of the store brand of water every now and again to use bedside during the night.
i have found that bottled waters DO have different tastes.
As has been said… Dansani sucks. Its tap water being re-packaged, as is a lot of the fancy waters. Best bet is to get a filter and get a good hard plastic bottle that doesn’t leach. All these plastic bottles are really, really, really bad news for our landfills and our biology. For reals.
Here you go:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLF_enUS242US245&q=dasani+tap+water
Dasani = P.W.S. = ‘Public Water Source’, ie: tap water run through a filter.
If you really want to be environmentally responsible, you shouldn’t buy bottled water :-) Trust me on this one! You should drink tap water. So it’s an annoyance to have to boil it. True, but it’s more environmentally friendly. And in the long run, better for you too.
XOXO
Raul, I only drink it when the water is bad around here, or when city water where I am is undrinkable. Otherwise, I never buy it. Don’t worry. :)
Fiji Water is the best…and I’m really not just saying that because I live in Fiji :o)