Episode 3: VASA Pure Bottled Water
Season 1, Episode 3
Welcome to Episode 3 of Water You Drinking?, the show that answers the question, “what’s in the water we’re drinking?”. In this episode, you’ll learn about VASA Pure’s bottled reverse osmosis water and how it compares to regular reverse osmosis water.
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Welcome back to another episode of What Are You Drinking? The show that tries to answer what's in the water that we're all drinking.
I'm Chris, your water sommelier, and today we are testing out the Vasa Pure Purified Water.
This is bottled by Niagara Bottling Company, Diamond Bar, California.
You'd think by the name Niagara it'd be in New York, but okay.
This says this is purified water purified by reverse osmosis.
The expiration date on this is April 22nd, 2025.
So, reverse osmosis, that's good.
Let's go ahead and do our calibration test.
Let's make sure things are working today.
This is reverse osmosis water made at my house.
Today's pH for our reference water is 6.7, which is good.
Our microsiemens per centimeter is 3.
Our parts per million of dissolved solids is 1.
Our salinity is 0.
Our specific gravity is 1.0.
And our microvolts is 374 of redox potential.
So, a good reference benchmark to start with.
Let's go ahead and clean that off.
That is all set.
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Now, let's get right back to the video.
Now let's open this up.
There's a slight smell.
There shouldn't be a smell.
All right, well, let's see how it goes.
Let's start off with our pH test.
Our pH test is 6.05.
So it's, um, it's a little, it's a little more acidic than our, our reference water.
Now, again, that may be because this water has been in transit, uh, has been shaken up a bit and have been exposed to the air.
The more that, uh, water is exposed to air, the more carbon.
Yeah.
Oxide.
It, uh, gets dissolved in it and that makes it more acidic over time.
Our microsiemens per centimeter is zero.
Our total dissolved solids is also zero.
Good.
Our salinity, zero.
Specific gravity, 1.0.
Our redox potential is 400.
So it's a little bit more electrically active.
All right.
So, so far, at least on the things that are, for electrical nature, this water is as advertised.
Uh, that is reverse osmosis purified.
Let's now take a, our particulate check.
I'm going to get a sample of the water here, put it on our slide and let's get it under the scope.
We're at 160, magnification 160.
Let's do our particle count and see how many particles of things that shouldn't be there are in here.
We have one.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Seven particles, not counting air bubbles.
These are oblong wedge-shaped things or, so we have about seven particles of non-reactive stuff.
Now this is, um, it's not enough to throw off the specific gravity, but specific gravity would not be affected by inner things and it would just dissolve stuff.
So there is, there's still a decent count of microplastics in here, which, no surprise given the container that the water is in is also plastic.
So the water is mostly clean and for the electrical stuff, total dissolved solids and things is effectively reverse osmosis water, but the nature of the container is, means that there are going to be extra microplastics in there compared to essentially the zero out of reverse osmosis water filtered at home.
The other thing is that just in life in general, there's so many microplastics even in the air that eventually, even if I just left this here, just any that precipitated out of the air would get caught in there.
So in terms of this water, the numbers are really good, which means that it is likely just fine to drink.
So good job Vasa and Niagara Waters for this water.
That's going to do it for this episode.
Thanks for tuning in.
As always, if you want the testing equipment that I'm using in the episode, it's all in the link in the description.
And if you want to see the spreadsheet of the leaderboard, of the waters, that's in the description as well.
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