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[sojourner1]

Yes, near 2 of my schools, middle and elementary schools, in a tiny village in the country side is a very special natural place where you can dip fizzy water out of a stone bore hole and pour into empty bottles. Their are only 65 students total of the 2 schools so I got small, but very low level English classes where we drink the best water on Earth. It's amazing how they bow all the way to a 90 degree angle.

This is not just soft spring water like I've seen numerous times in Korea, but it's carbonated. Yes, carbonated mineral water in a bore hole inside a stone gazebo like structure. After sitting a while, it turns yellowish at the bottom of the bottle. I thought that only came in little artificial bottles of CO2 like used in Coke.

While it's carbonated, it's somewhat flat where it's not as fizzy as a bottle of carbonated water, but it's said to be medicinal and it's free.

I will be loading my backpack of bottles up regularly on my bus trips to this village. It's a very beautiful stress relieving place with lots of trees and a stream with a water powered grain mill and an old Buddhist temple nearby. You just got to love the country if you don't mind not having much of anyone to talk to and hang out with.

Any of you ever seen carbonated water come naturally out of the Earth? I wonder how it positively effects your health to get on this water?

[djsmnc]

Yes, my friend, it is a natural occurence. A company called Perrier has banked off this phenomenon!

[MrRogers]

Well, Sojourner, it sounds like its a great find if you can be sure it is good water. Sounds like a beautiful place.

I teach at nine different PS in a very beautiful rural area...schools in the middle of mountains and zillions of rice paddies.

However, I find living here to be a toxic dump ... insecticide spraying every night in the town, and I see constant spraying by the farmers into the rice paddies. From a science angle, I am worried about (and god knows how many years they have been spraying) how this goes down into the water table/groundwater.

When I go to the schools I am so thirsty because of the heat and season. I ask if they have any bottled water. They all rush to get me water from the what I gather is a filtered system. One sees all these tall machines everywhere ... even in restaurants...hot and cold water choices....tastes good...but I am presuming, because I can't read Korean on the machine and I haven't asked around yet, that this is just a fancy filtering system. However, I presume it is tap water coming from god knows where...groundwater(?). I also remember reading/hearing that filters really can't get out some chemicals and heavy metals.

Perhaps others can enlighten me on all this, but I would wonder what is actually in the "pure" water you found in what seems like a delightful place. It might be good to have it tested (but where?).

[sojourner1]

[djsmnc]

I personally ended up getting a soda syphon after loobying my girlfriend about how it would benefit my life. I use purified water and give it a shot of carbon. It's not completely natural, but the taste and fizziness is impeccable!

[saw6436]

^^Where did you get a soda syphon. Summer is here and I can't find tonic water anywhere for my G&Ts.

[sojourner1]

[bassexpander]

I drank the Yaksu water on Halla Mountain in Jeju and got diarhea.

I'll never drink water from the ground again just because others are doing it.

[KYC]

[steroidmaximus]

first time you've drank from mineral springs? Fairly common in many places, but I find most of the ones in Korea have too high an iron content to be very palatable. Still, nice to cook rice in the mineral water, gives it a nice flavour and colour.