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Date: 08 Aug 2006 19:28:18
From: fixedgear
Subject: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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Does anyone know if this is ok to use in your machine? Or has anyones
used it before? My wife wants to get water delivered because we live in
an old building and the water has some serious taste/quality issues and
I wanted to see if it would be ok to use in a Slivia. The only thing
about the mineral content on the lable is it says 2% calcium.
JUst thought I'd check with you guys here.
Thanks
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 01:04:41
From: Steve Ackman
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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In <1155090498.658790.303660@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com >, on 8 Aug 2006
19:28:18 -0700, fixedgear wrote:
> Does anyone know if this is ok to use in your machine? Or has anyones
> used it before? My wife wants to get water delivered because we live in
> an old building and the water has some serious taste/quality issues and
> I wanted to see if it would be ok to use in a Slivia. The only thing
> about the mineral content on the lable is it says 2% calcium.
Given the way you've relayed it, that'd be 20,000 ppm.
IOW, 1 liter of water would contain 20 grams of calcium.
I seem to recall 500 ppm as one of the upper limits
of one of those regulatory agencies with an interest in
drinking water... so I would have to guess that you've
misread the label, or omitted some important contextual
cue(s).
At any rate, the water can't really be 2% calcium.
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 00:59:01
From: Dan Bollinger
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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The website says this about their water (all in parts per million):
Calcium 70
Magnesium 7.3
Potassium 1.0
Fluoride 0.1
Total Dissolved Solids 240
Alkalinity (CaCO3) 200
PH 8.35
Dan
"fixedgear" <tom5000@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:1155090498.658790.303660@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Does anyone know if this is ok to use in your machine? Or has anyones
> used it before? My wife wants to get water delivered because we live in
> an old building and the water has some serious taste/quality issues and
> I wanted to see if it would be ok to use in a Slivia. The only thing
> about the mineral content on the lable is it says 2% calcium.
> JUst thought I'd check with you guys here.
> Thanks
>
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 00:34:51
From: jim schulman
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:59:01 -0400, "Dan Bollinger"
<danNObollinger@insightSPAMbb.com > wrote:
>The website says this about their water (all in parts per million):
>
>Calcium 70
>Magnesium 7.3
>Potassium 1.0
>Fluoride 0.1
>Total Dissolved Solids 240
>Alkalinity (CaCO3) 200
>PH 8.35
That makes it about two to three times as much minerals as you want;
it's a lot more like limestone aquifer than mountain run off.
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 08:36:52
From: Dan Bollinger
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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>>Calcium 70
>>Magnesium 7.3
>>Potassium 1.0
>>Fluoride 0.1
>>Total Dissolved Solids 240
>>Alkalinity (CaCO3) 200
>>PH 8.35
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> That makes it about two to three times as much minerals as you want;
> it's a lot more like limestone aquifer than mountain run off.
Their website says as much, a spring running through stone. The pH is the give
away even if you knew nothing else.
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 04:57:00
From: I->Ian
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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On 8 Aug 2006 19:28:18 -0700, "fixedgear" <tom5000@hotmail.com > wrote:
>Does anyone know if this is ok to use in your machine? Or has anyones
>used it before? My wife wants to get water delivered because we live in
>an old building and the water has some serious taste/quality issues and
>I wanted to see if it would be ok to use in a Slivia. The only thing
>about the mineral content on the lable is it says 2% calcium.
>JUst thought I'd check with you guys here.
>Thanks
http://www.big-rick.com/coffee/waterfaq.html may help you decide
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 05:18:25
From: daveb
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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IMHO, don't use anything with this much mineral content in any espresso
machine.
if the ONLY other option is distilled, use that.
Dave
Saeco / Gaggia service SE
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fixedgear wrote:
> Does anyone know if this is ok to use in your machine? Or has anyones
> used it before? My wife wants to get water delivered because we live in
> an old building and the water has some serious taste/quality issues and
> I wanted to see if it would be ok to use in a Slivia. The only thing
> about the mineral content on the lable is it says 2% calcium.
> JUst thought I'd check with you guys here.
> Thanks
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Date: 09 Aug 2006 17:29:00
From: fixedgear
Subject: Re: Mountain Valley Spring water ok?
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Thanks everyone.
I figured as much, but I thought I'd see what everyone said.
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