I seem to have a collection of started bottled water around.
Packaging water seems like an environmental abomination enough, but throwing it away is even worse.
Can it be drunk after sitting around for months or more?

Thx!!

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
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Ask Paul F. Also check the expiration date.

Carm

If it's been opened and backwashed into.. then you probably have a nice colony of sea monkeys in there...
Even I would hesitate to drink it.. (well, unless I was really thirsty...)

If it's still sealed, no.. it won't go "bad". Stale tasting, maybe.. but not "bad".

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Water the plants with it.

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Spoken like a "pro" of expired items.

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Carm

Um . . . useful article but doesn't seem to factor in Chicago tap water . . .

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Ask Evangeline Lilly aka: Kate from LOST. I saw her on Jay Leno myself, she
actually told this. Probably a little more info than we really need to know.

Not for weak stomachs.

Quote from another forum:

"Lilly was just on Leno, and told a story about how she was driving around with a
male friend(surely Dominic since they're apparently dating or something), and he
needed to take a leak. He used a water bottle. Lilly said his urine was clear like
water. Later on in the day, she had three different water bottles full of water. Or
supposedly water. She apparently didn't remember he had peed in the bottle until
she had already chugged down half of a bottle, which had an odd taste."

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water plants with it.

Once your saliva hits the mouth of the bottle, and it gets in the water, it is contaminated. So if it has sat for any amount of time, you don't want to know what can be grown as a culture from the lip of those bottles.

we wash and reuse water bottles a number of times, then recycle them. Brita pitcher is way cheaper than bottled water, and Seattle water is pretty damn nice compared to some of the tap water I have been forced to drink.



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Yes.

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I still have a couple cases of "Budweiser" water left from the 1994 earthquake, wonder if using it might kill the drinker.

Bud has a brewery about 5 miles from the epicenter and was the first to respond by switching from filling cans with beer to filling them with water which was then distributed through local agencies.

Some would suggest that they didn't have to change to water since thats how their beer tastes anyway, but that would be a cheap shot.

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"Who's more foolish - the fool or the fool that follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi

I remember a Flash comic book from a long time ago. In it, the Flash had invented a time machine and went far into the future. There, he touched some odd looking material that contaminated his hands. When he came back to the present time, everything he touched with his hands because instantly extremely old. Well, someone was in trouble in a boat and needed saving, so he had to figure out a way to save them without touching them. Fortunately, since water doesn't age, he was able to swim with his hands while having them hang onto his feet. That way he didn't harm them with his contaminated hands and the water wasn't affected. Ever since reading that, I've been under the impression that water doesn't get old. YMMV.

In various parts of the world, people drink groundwater that was deposited tens, hundreds or thousands of years earlier. So there is nothing about water itself that goes stale.

Some plastic containers, however, seem to leach chemicals into the water, and over time these can get intense.

OK I'll bite...how is throwing (fungal enhanced) bottled water out bad? Wouldn't throwing water down the drain or on the grass be the ultimate recycling?

Oh and this one....

"In various parts of the world, people drink groundwater that was deposited tens, hundreds or thousands of years earlier. So there is nothing about water itself that goes stale."

Or the trip killer bacteria that live in it.


Personally I wouldn't drink open bottled water that has been sitting out for more than a day. Health experts even warn against reusing water bottles because it's impossible to kill all the bacteria on the plastic after they have been open.

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Some plastic containers, however, seem to leach chemicals into the water, and over time these can get intense.

Polycarbonate does not leach any flavors into the water. That is one reason why they are used in Nalgene bottles. PC is also very impact resistant.

Polyethylene(PE) however, which is used in milk jugs does leach monomers into the contents, but usually only when it is exposed to high temps or UV radiation (sunlight). The same holds true for Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) and Polyethylene Terephthalate(PET), but less so than just Polyethylene.

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I keep two or three 2.5 gallon water jugs around for emergencies and rotate them out now and then. Just yesterday I checked them out and they have both a "bottled" date and an expiration date. Like others have said it's about the container, not the water.

I'd never heard the Budweiser water story, but I'm on the west side. Sounds like a good ebay item. GENUINE BUDWEISER WATER!

If you keep in out of the sun, and relatively cool it should last a good long time. And not to discount all the warnings about bacteria and disease growing in your open bottles, but do you people ever wonder how humans have survied all these tens of thousands of years (sorry creationists) with all dying from water-borne bacteria in their pots, jugs and canteens?
Seriously, some bacteria is actually good for you, and some of those that aren't when taken in small quantities can help yo9u develop a stronger immune system so you don't have to worry about dying every time you reuse a plastic bottle. The world cannot ever be a sterile place, and if it were then we would all die the minute some foreign life entered the atmosphere from another planet.



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If you keep in out of the sun, and relatively cool it should last a good long time. And not to discount all the warnings about bacteria and disease growing in your open bottles, but do you people ever wonder how humans have survied all these tens of thousands of years (sorry creationists) with all dying from water-borne bacteria in their pots, jugs and canteens?
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Seriously, some bacteria is actually good for you, and some of those that aren't when taken in small quantities can help yo9u develop a stronger immune system so you don't have to worry about dying every time you reuse a plastic bottle. The world cannot ever be a sterile place, and if it were then we would all die the minute some foreign life entered the atmosphere from another planet.<br />
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Exactly. I was wondering if a rational person would post to this thread. (except for the tens of thousands of years comment...try 1 million years).

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I figured I would go a little conservative on the timeline with respect to how long humans may have actually had containers to carry water around in. Certainly more than 10,000 years, but you got my point so I'll stop explaining.