Water: A Valuable Commodity
I grew up thinking water was “free”. Or at least pretty close to “free”. I remember seeing bottled water in the stores and wondering who in their right mind would actually PAY for water???
A can or bottle full of bubbles, colour, sugar and some artificial flavouring seemed great value in comparison to buying plain water!!!
How times have changed.
I like to rate my purchases in terms of nutritional return on investment. If I apply that formula to the purchase of water vs soft drink, water comes out way in front.
I have to admit that I’m still reluctant to buy it unless I have to.
But like it or not, decent water is essential to our health and is getting harder and harder to come by “free”.
We’re very fortunate here where we live. Our rainwater tanks are new and clean as is our air most of the time (particularly in comparison to cities). We can harvest our own water. Of course, there is a still a COST in doing so (the cost of our rainwater tanks).
When we travel, we always BUY bottled water. Why? We’ve found whenever we’re in another area we get stomach upsets - which we attribute to varying bugs in the water. Bugs our body are not used to. So we prefer to purchase water rather than risk being ill while we’re away from home.
When Noble Beverages asked me if I would be interested in trying their Pureau Pure Water, I agreed. Because I wanted some free water? No. Because I’m actually really FUSSY when it comes to water. Which is actually a source of frustration for us when we travel.
I like my water to taste like…. water.
Not plastic or minerals or whatever else is in many bottled water products that make me shudder when I try to drink it.
We’ve already decided that when we do our trip, we’ll allocate funds to purchase water as we go rather than take a risk with various “free” water sources on offer.
Finding something that doesn’t make me “shudder” to drink is kind of high on our priority list.
THE VERDICT?
Pureau Pure Water tastes like WATER!!!
I kid you not. I have not ever tasted prepackaged water that tastes so close to rainwater before.
It got the thumbs up from the whole family.
And the cask made it very easy for the kids to access the water themselves.
A FEW FACTS FROM THE COMPANY:
Noble’s Pureau is the only Australian water that is 100% guaranteed to be completely free of all impurities including chlorine, bacteria, sodium (salt), fluoride, nitrates and other inorganic minerals.
Noble Beverages uses a proprietary three-stage filtration method for its water called the “Pureau Process”. Absolutely no treatment chemicals are used during the process, nor is ozonation, chlorine or UV. It’s also important to note that Pureau is not distilled water – distillation is not part of the Pureau Process.
Pureau is owned by Noble Beverages, an Australian company based in St Marys, Sydney.
Choosing Noble’s Pureau’s 5 and 10 litre casks is a great way to cut-down the consumption of disposable PET and HDPE water bottles, which can help reduce your carbon footprint.
Final Thoughts
Pureau gets the “Lightening Tick of Approval” for:
- Taste
- Aussie Company
- Not using chemicals in the process
- Ease of access for all ages (cask)
- Consideration of Environmental Factors
Over To You
What are your thoughts on buying water for consumption? Do you do it? Do you have a favoured brand? Do you buy based on cost, taste or some other factor?
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Our local water tends to leave pink, orange and yellow mould in the sink. Therefore I am very reluctant to drink it.
I have a Sunbeam water chiller and filter unit which I use for all my drinking water at home needs, and I buy bottles to have on hand for when we go out.
Water is the only thing I drink 99% of the time - I drink one or two cups of coffee a day, and maybe *one* can of coke a month, sometimes one every two months. I used to drink 2 cans of coke a day so that was a big change for me.
When we lived out bush all our water came from a bore that was sooooo deep in the ground that the water was the purest nicest stuff ever. When we moved to Rockhampton and lived in town for a few months we all had horrible tummy upsets for about the first 6-8 weeks which we attributed to drinking town water. Now we’re very blessed to live out of town and only have rainwater. In fact my DH, who is away most weeks for work, takes a huge container of our own water with him as he can’t stand what comes out of the tap anywhere he goes.
BTW when you do go on your big trip we’d love to have you come and stay if you end up near here. Free accommodation and free rainwater, now that’s frugal!
Love Kendall
We have actually bought a machine that condensates water out of the air as we still live in Brisbane until our Strawbale House is finished. We have bought that machine because we just absolutely hated the taste of the Brisbane town water.
For quite some time we only had under sink filters but when the Brisbane city council and QLD government started pushing water fluoridation, we got a bit scared. Through researching water fluridation on the net we have found out that basically they use a poisinous by-product of aluminium production to fluoridate the town water.
We are now mostly drinking water freshly condensed from the moisture in the air.
Adelaide tap water doesn’t taste nice to me and I find I have gastro type reactions when I drink it so I buy water for drinking. I get the Picadilly brand in the 10 litre cask and fill my bottles from that to take to work. I wash and re-use the bottles until they start to taste funny, then I’ll buy a bottle of water and start the refill process again. Hubby has cast iron guts, so drinks the tap water.
Snoskred - Ewwww!!! I don’t blame you! I used to have a water filter thingy at our old place for taking impurities out of the water. But it was painfully slow and big (terracotta pot thing) and I don’t have room for it here. Plus with the newer tanks there hasn’t been the same need.
Kendall - sounds good.
Will have to see how things pan out when it gets closer (no route has been decided yet).
Mark - that sounds really interesting.
River - Adelaide tap water would have to be one of the worst!!! I wouldn’t drink it either. YUK!
Hey girl,
Haven’t talked to you in a while. Hope you’re doing okay!
Trey
I try to avoid bottled water whenever I can and prefer to drink tap water. In Canberra the tap water is fine & tastes fresh. Our water catchments are pretty good.
My problem with bottled water is the cost involved in bringing it to us - there have been statistics flying around lately that say that you need quite a lot more water then the amount in the bottle to produce it. Also the concern about the waste from people drinking bottled water. I try to fill up a drink bottle from home when I am going away.
I do agree that a lot of water doesn’t taste good, and so when we travel I will buy bottled, or if we are camping we fill up a drum of water from my house - this is drinking water only & we will generally use local water for washing up etc. DBF lives in a town outside Canberra & their water is truely disgusting, I will not drink that either.
So I guess I am trying to minimise the use of bottled water & I will always try water when I am travelling to see if it is OK before purchasing a bottle.
I find bottled water pretty convenient when we have arrived at netball to discover that the Princess has forgotten her water…again… Apparently remembering everything that she may possibly need is MY job. I have tried to get her to be responsible for her own stuff but it’s just not working and causes unneccesary drama, so I just buy the water!