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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by stephengillie on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:18PM (#9199735)
And this means that soon, many of us will be eating food grown with 20,000 year old water.
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by leppr on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:38PM (#9199891)
if water in bottles expires in a few years i can't even imagine how bad this unpackaged water will have turned. this is totaly outragous
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by jonnathanson on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:37PM (#9200251)
In fairness, I think it's not so much the water as the bottles that go bad. That type of plastic is not easily biodegradable, but it is photosensitive, and it weakens over long-term exposure to light. As the bottles break down, they leach toxic chemicals into the water and also lose structural integrity.
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by pyrocat on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:33PM (#9200229)
pretty sure water in water bottles only 'expire' because of the plastic leaching into the water over time. "Unpackaged" water has been sitting in the earth for thousands of years, as evidenced by this article, and is perfectly safe to drink.
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by pault on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:30PM (#9200510)
I think your humor detector needs tuning.
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by pyrocat on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:53PM (#9200605)
Oh, yeah, you're probably right. I just thought they were bad at English.
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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by sergers on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:46PM (#9200299)
That all started due to NJ state law requiring everything to have an expiry date.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/water-never-goes-ba...

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Re:California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,00... by koberstein on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:28PM (#9200499)
Yeah, they should really be using new water to water that new food.

/s

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