Talk:Water/Archive 1

message: along the lines of what was mentioned earlier... but clicking on "Potable" in the article (something like "water that is fit for human consumption is called potable") links to this article... that seems kind-of not helpful, but I really don't know what else should go in the potable article... thoughts?
:In the dutch wikipedia the article on potable water contains info on dutch regulations on drinking water, in addition, the history of the devolpment of drinking water might be added in future. Ellywa 21:07, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: So... somebody should probably translate the Dutch article (and probably put some regs from other countries in as well), yes?  -- SS 19:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  potable 

message: The water dipoles hydrogen bond to the dipolar regions of the sugar molecule and allow it to be carried away into solution. "HELL YEAH"
I must be the only that finds this anon's enthusiasm about aqueous solutions amusing, right? -- SS 18:57, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amused? 

message: A pressure-temperature chart showing the regions where water is in each state would be awesome, and make the triple point discussion more obvious. The colour could even add some extra info, such as density. Does anyone have relevent formulas that could be used to produce such a graph, if not such a graph itself? Derrick Coetzee 00:26, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pressure-temperature state chart 

message: I'm uncertain about the following:
"Note that this effect only applies to fresh water: sea water contains sufficient salt that the density minimum occurs at the freezing point (approximately -1.9 oC)."
This short note by itself would seem to imply that the Arctic Ocean should be frozen solid top to bottom! We need to include a bit here about salts "freezing out" as salt water freezes. The resulting ice is less salty and less dense than the salt water it freezes from. I'm not familiar enough with the details to feel qualified to edit it until I have time to delve deeper into it. --Vsmith 01:48, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: (William M. Connolley 08:49, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freezing salt water??? 

message: Howdy y'all,
i havent edited this page before, so before i rush in and do something ill run it pass you all, in case there is some consensus about it that i dont know of. What do people think of the table on the spanish article for water (obviously translated into english) for this page? The bellman 00:37, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)
:Hi - check out water (molecule) the technical page that was split off this a month or so ago. It has that table - which used to be here. Seems someone thought it was too long so it was split. -Vsmith 02:23, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: Many bottled water companies exploit another common misconception, advertising both purity and taste, even though pure water is tasteless.
Well it is partly true, I have noticed that some brands taste less matalic then others. --68.6.29.194 06:47, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taste 

message: I would be interested in seeing this article expand to incorporate a discussion of the origin of water. I recently came across a statement by Masaru_Emoto about a finding by NASA and the University of Hawaii in 1997 that ALL water originally came from comets. Greenman 22:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of Water 

message: Removed the following:
:----
:The Crisis
:Let us now look at some of the diffrent dimensions of this crisis.
:About 120 crores of people (20%of the global population) spread across 40 countries do not have access to safe water;240 crores of people lack adequate senitation srvice
 
Don't have a clue what a crores of people means. If a source exists, then cite it, clean-up the wording and re-insert in the proper location in the article. Vsmith 00:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crisis? 

message: - Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division, anyone? It's at least somewhat apropos. Martin Rudat(T|@|C) 15:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: :Many bottled water companies exploit another common misconception, advertising both purity and taste, even though pure water is tasteless.
Is this truly a misconception or exploitation? That is, couldn't the advertised purity refer to freedom from added harmful substances, without instrinically meaning freedom from all substances other than H20? --Dpr 05:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't the last paragraph in the wrong place?--Carabinieri 09:26, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "Exploit[ation]"