Originally Posted by SlackJawedYokel
Dasani came from a municipal tap supply in Peckham, England. Then it gets filtered etc, but it originally came from a normal tap. LOL
Actually in the US, the water in Dasani comes from the local municipal water supplies at each local processing plant, but it’s irrelevant where it comes from, once water goes through Reverse Osmosis, it’s about as close to pure H20 as you can get. Matter of fact you’ve got to then run it through a charcoal filter after R.O. just to put some minerals back in it and oxygenate it or else it doesn’t taste “right”. Pure H20 tastes “flat”. The difference between Dasani / Aquafina and other brands is that most brands are just plain municipal water filtered with local taxpayers money without the expensive Reverse Osmosis process.
Dasani and Aquafina are nothing more that the water base which Coke and Pepsi use for their sodas, there’s no point in importing water just to filter it then add corn syrup, flavoring and carbonation. :) They happen to use R.O. to filter the water because pure H20 picks up both the flavoring and the CO2 in the carbonation process more efficiently. It’s nothing more than a question of economy for Coke & Pepsi… they were already running municipal water through Reverse Osmosis for their soda base anyway, when the bottled water craze hit, it was just common sense to take their R.O. filtered base and sell it as plain water, sans the flavoring and carbonation. Less ingredients, less processing, same cost to the consumer equals bigger profits. I assure you, Dasani in the US does not come from England.
When Coke decided to launch Dasani in the UK, they used the municipal water supply in Sidcup, which is just a short jaunt down the road from Peckham.
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