Eight Steps to Drinking a glass of water Part #2

Step Two: Picking a Water

  In the early days of competitive drinking - it wasn’t cost effective to practice drinking with anything other than regular tap water.  With the pollutants of the day, acid rain, pesticide contamination and carcongens that seep into the water table it is almost mandatory these days to pick a good spring water, if not purified water.  Do not forget, purified water doesn’t have any minerals as well as contaminants so when drinking a purified water you may want to supplement these missing minerals.  Spring water seems to be the natural alternative so try and find a reputable company.  

BEWARE:There are many companies that claim to be “pure” spring water that capitalize on the better known waters by imitating, emulating and copying the labels of more reputable companies.   A list of the more reputable bottling companies can be found in the appendix of Rules and Regulations of the NDA, which can be purchased at your local pub, brewery or water plant near you.   Because of obvious legal reprocussions the NDA cannot dissuade anyone from purchasing waters from these disreputable companies.  Believe me, you don’t want to muddy your shoes with these rain by night companies so my advice is to keep away.   A red flag should immediately go up when noticing a bottling company claiming to produce spring water from New Jersey. I once knew a fellow to have claimed to have only drunk from such ponds in Jersey or New York and alas as you can imagine he is no longer with us.   He is serving time in the New York Penitentury for the Criminally Insane.