What do you think?

[littleindiangirl]

http://www.ratnutrition.com/water.html
"Avoid tap water! It's always best to give your rats drinking or distilled water. Sound expensive? It's not! Try buying the large containers of water with a spicket from your local supermarket. The water is cheap, it's easy to refill drinking bottles with it, and it lasts a long time.

Why is tap water so awful? Check back soon for links to some great articles about this very subject. A great deal is known about the harmful affects of chlorine and fluoride on rats, since rats are the ones experimented on to discover more about ourselves."

So since i'm convinced now, and use only tap water, that has bleach added to it, are these people misinformed? Or has there obsession with rats lent them the knowledge that tap water is BAD. I have to admit, it's probably no worse than water from ponds or running sources of water out in the wild.

[littleindiangirl]

At the same time http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...ey.aspx?page=3

"Tap water in the U.S., with rare exceptions, is impressively safe. It is monitored constantly, and the test results are made public. Mineral water has a long association with medicinal benefits -- and it can provide minerals that people need -- but there are no scientific studies establishing that routinely consuming mineral water improves your health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in fact, forbids mineral waters in the United States from making any health claims.

For this healthful convenience, we're paying what amounts to an unbelievable premium. You can buy a half-liter Evian for $1.35 -- 17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren't paying attention.

In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from Yosemite National Park. It's so good the Environmental Protection Agency doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, five months and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000."

So who is right? Rat ladies, or the men and women who's job it is to monitor tap water?
And anyways, why spend money on bottled water? Do you see that number? 9000$ a month! Holy crap. I like the taste of city water, it'll suit me just fine. I say, sell empty bottles that you can fill up at home.

[Kagez28]

$9000 to take a shower in Evian....

[Krazy99CL]

I like the taste of city water, it'll suit me just fine. I say, sell empty bottles that you can fill up at home.

Lol. thanks for the info.

[wolfy-hound]

I have well water. When I had my shop, I had city water there. The rats drank exactly what I drank, which is whatever came out of the tap.
I think there's a lot of alarmists out there who think everything is gonna kill you. Shrug. I say "Drink that tap water, and have a plate of paint chip cookies on me!"
Twitch, stumble.. I'm okay!
Wolfy

[frankykeno]

Straight out the tap is fine for your rats. If you and your family can drink it, for heaven's sakes so can the rodents LOL. Distilled water isn't good for anyone.

http://www.ionizers.org/distilled_water.html

I always laugh at the "special" water they sell at the pet store for dogs. This for something that will happily drink from my toilet bowl and licks it own butt???? How silly LOL.

[TekWarren]

Tap water for my animals, although I do have a small tap filter I use for my reptiles. I think the only reason I got into using that is when I was using regular bowls I didn't like the ring the water left and no matter how much I scrubbed it never completely went away. Now that I'm using deli cups that I replace weekly or bi-weekly its not so much an issue.

[Ginevive]

I have well water also from a spring. I don't even think that it si filtered, come to think of it. It is ice cold and priceless; I get to drink what people pay a lot of money for right out of the tap!
But I grew up in th Buffalo.. drinking city water that tasted like bleach mixed with iron and rust.. lol.