The myth about bottled water machines has been circulating for some time. This is a myth, and it’s not true. Let me tell you why:

We were selling these things and people were buying them. They would buy them and then they didn’t use them. They would buy them and then they wouldn’t use them at all. We would get back the money and we would sell it to someone else. And so on and so forth.

And then we had this idea: Why don’t we just take the money that people are spending on bottled water machines, put it in the bank, and let the interest pay for it? So we did that, and it worked really well. We didn’t have to worry about anything anymore, because now we had this money in the bank that was paying for everything. And we were making a lot of money off of it!

And then one day someone said, “What if we took all that money out of the bank and bought a bunch of bottled water machines, and sold them to people? And they could just take their regular tap water.” And I said, “Well, I don’t know if that would work.”

And so we did that. We took all that money out of the bank and bought

The following is a myth that has been circulating on the internet. The myth of the bottled water machine:

A few years ago, my wife and I were at a restaurant in Sacramento. We ordered bottled water, which came from a machine that filled each bottle individually with purified water. We noticed the bottle was not full, and the waiter apologized for it. “We’re not allowed to fill these all the way up because of California law,” he said. “If we did, people would sue us for selling water by weight instead of volume.”

I did a little research and found out he was telling the truth. The fact is, if you buy anything that’s partly liquid and partly air in California, you’ve been ripped off for years.

Here’s why: Most things are sold by weight (or volume), but many things are also sold by count. You can buy a six-pack of beer or soda; you can buy three eggs or six eggs. But even though you’re paying for six cans of beer or soda, or six eggs, you’re actually buying five cans of beer plus one can of foam, or four eggs plus two shells (the empty space inside each eggshell).

The reason is that many years ago there was a class action

I am a former employee of Culligan Water Conditioning. I was a service technician, and I worked for the company for about 4 years.

This is the first in a series of articles dealing with the myth about bottled water machines. I want to preface this by saying that I have no dog in this race – I am not currently employed by Culligan or any other bottled water vendor. In fact, I got out of the industry after I realized just how bad it really was.

So let’s put this one to rest. There is no “machine” that you can buy that will turn your tap water into bottled water quality. The concept sounds great – but it just doesn’t work that way.

Over the years, I have been asked by several people if it is true that a bottled water machine can be used as a dialysis machine. The answer is no. There have been stories circulating on the Internet on this topic for some time. I was first asked about this story in an email dated February 10, 2005:

“I saw a story about the use of the bottled water machine as an artificial kidney and wondered if you could comment on this. Is it true?”

I replied to the sender with a quick reply, “No, it’s not true.” It was not until later that I found out that this story had been circulating for several years already. The story has evolved from an alleged discovery by a scientist in Germany to an actual product in China and now to a product being sold in the United States.

In summary, there is no such thing as a bottled water machine (or any other type of water dispenser) that can be used as an artificial kidney.

We’ve all seen them. They’re the machines that dispense bottled water at a press of a button, and they’re usually found in offices and hospitals.

The myth goes like this: Water is poured into the machine from large 5-gallon bottles (which are delivered by truck). The water is then filtered through the machine, and comes out the other side “bottled” in whatever size of bottle you want.

It’s a myth because it’s not true. The only thing that comes out of these machines is tap water, which has been filtered, but not bottled. It can be sold at less than 1/2 the price of regular bottled water, but it isn’t what it’s made out to be.

The myth probably got started because people saw 5-gallon bottles being delivered to their office or hospital, and because they saw the water coming out of the machine in bottles that look just like bottled water bottles.

When you buy a bottled water machine for your home, you think you’re going to get a lot of bottled water. But the truth is that bottled water machines are not the same as bottled water. You can have one without having the other.

Bottled water machines are meant to be used in restaurants, hotels, offices and other public places. Bottled water machines are designed so that when you turn on the tap, they filter out most of the chlorine and other chemicals from your tap water. When you pour a glass of filtered water into your mouth, it tastes like bottled water.

But there’s no such thing as a bottled water machine for your home, says William Hurley, the chief executive of WaterStation Technologies Inc., which sells more than half of all bottled water in North America. “The problem with making a bottle at home is that it’s really hard to do,” he says. “You’d have to have a whole laboratory full of equipment.”

Hurley says there’s no shortage of people who will tell you that they make their own bottled water at home using a special machine they’ve bought on eBay or Amazon. But there’s no such thing as a “bottled water machine” for your home, he says.

Bottled-water

So as I am out there in the field, and reading blogs, I keep seeing this Myth that goes something like this:

“Water filters do not remove drugs. The only way to remove drugs from water is with a Reverse Osmosis filter. The reason being that Reverse Osmosis uses pressure to push the water through a membrane which filters everything out.”

I will have to admit, when I first saw it, I thought “Hmmmm, that makes sense.” Then after about 30 seconds of thinking about it, I said: “That can’t be right.” So I went to the experts.

I sent e-mails and made phone calls to the experts at NSF International, the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other places. These folks all confirmed my initial thoughts: You do not need Reverse Osmosis (RO) to filter pharmaceuticals from your water.

Here are some facts:

1) RO is actually one of the worst ways to filter pharmaceuticals out of your water supply because it removes pretty much everything – including beneficial minerals such as calcium, magnesium and zinc – while leaving most pharmaceuticals behind.

2) Most pharmaceuticals are very small molecules (with molecular