First investment

[Okrafarmer]

Just don't market it as artesian swamp water.

[SwampDonkey]

Talking about an artesian well, there was always a spot at the end of one of the fields here that seeps water early in the summer and then dries up. That spot was dark earth. Well, when dad sold the farm I told the couple that they'd have all kinds of water just up the field from that spot. Good for a well. They dug the well there and it's been a giser like old faithful for 9 years now, just shooting up in the air around the well head. The folks sold out and moved on and another couple moved in and first they thought the well was busted or something with all the water shooting out. It's stronger in the fall and springtime. A neighbor dug 3 fish ponds and has a well all off springs in the field beside his house, his place is just down the road from the other house a piece. We had a couple other springs out on the back of the farm on the opposite side of the road of those houses to. You just took a cup in the shade of the cedars and spruce and had a good drink in the heat of summer. There is another just up the road where there was a hand dug well with a spring house over it, like at grandpa's dug well down on that same farm I mentioned. (fed two houses and the barn trough). Anyway that spring never freezes and I've seen day after day at -30 F in January, might crust a little but with the sun it opens back up.

[Randy88]

Maybe something like this instead, the freshest arteshian water overlookng a calm beautiful minature lake we're the backwaters are so quiet nobody even knows its there, get a sample of what peacefull and cooling refreshment is truely all about, nothing is fresher, more thirst quenching than natures own atresian water, bottled in a secluded location only the most daring will go to make sure its pure, fresh and available to only you and those that thirst for only the finest.   

Sounds better than, we pounded a pipe in the ground to bottle this junk from the mesquito infested hole that the world abandoned to relive fools of their hard earned money.

[John Mc]

Sounds better than, we pounded a pipe in the ground to bottle this junk from the mesquito infested hole that the world abandoned to relive fools of their hard earned money.

Good one!  Did yo know that municipal water supplies are subject to significantly tighter standards and are more closely monitored than bottled water? Always makes me laugh when people think they're getting "healthier" water when buying bottles. Maybe in some parts of the world, or when compared to some private wells, but generally not when compared to most municipal water supplies in the U.S.

The only time I buy bottled water is when I forgot to bring some with me. Even then I had a hard time bringing myself to pay for it. I've finally rationalized it by thinking "I'm not buying the water, I'm buying a cheap container to carry it in... they just filled it up for me ahead of time."

[SwampDonkey]

I never buy it either, but I was drinking it at Jeff's pig roast because I don't drink carbonated soft drinks or beer.

I know I've got better water from my well than being dispensed in plastic. If you can taste the plastic, and you can, than it ain't good. 

[Okrafarmer]

Did yo know that municipal water supplies are subject to significantly tighter standards and are more closely monitored than bottled water? Always makes me laugh when people think they're getting "healthier" water when buying bottles. Maybe in some parts of the world, or when compared to some private wells, but generally not when compared to most municipal water supplies in the U.S.

The only time I buy bottled water is when I forgot to bring some with me. Even then I had a hard time bringing myself to pay for it. I've finally rationalized it by thinking "I'm not buying the water, I'm buying a cheap container to carry it in... they just filled it up for me ahead of time."

Unfortunately municipal water has chlorine and flouride in it, both of which are harmful to humans. Therefore I try to filter it out, or buy distilled water, which theoretically has neither of these ingredients in it. Unfortunately, my massive hydration needs dictate that I not be so picky and I end up drinking an awful lot of municipal water on a day to day basis-- sometimes 2 gallons or more a day when it's hot out. I believe somebody on here refers to that as a 3-shirt day? But I keep the same shirt on to gain benefit of the sweat already in my shirt to help keep me cool. Anyway, if I buy water it is distilled water and that is the best tasting stuff IMO.