[Classical Music]
- Hey there, I'm Josh Clark
and this is Brain Stuff.
And I'm gonna answer a question for you.
I'm gonna ask it for you even, first,
because that's the kind of guy I am.
Does water ever go bad?
The answer is not really,
depending on how you store it.
If you take some water in a bowl or vase
or something open
and leave it outside and then come back
after a few days and
it's hot and drink it,
you'll have just drank a lot of
probably algae, mosquito
larva, just a bunch of crud
that you probably wouldn't want.
It's stagnant water that's
been left out to the elements.
That's, in a sense, water going bad.
But if you have some water, say,
that you buy in like a bottle
form that you never open
and you store it for a few years,
no it's probably not gonna go bad.
Be warned, however, that it can leech
stuff from the surrounding environment.
So if you have this thing in
an onion holder,
I don't know what that is,
but if you have a holder for your onions
and you put a gallon of water in there,
it's gonna leech the onion flavors.
Your water's gonna taste oniony.
Perfectly natural, doesn't
mean that there's anything bad.
Although, that does also mean
that it leeches chemicals from, say,
the plastic container over time as well.
So you are drinking that plastic.
If you are going to drink bottled water
fresh off the shelf, the assembly line,
and bottled water that's
been sitting there
for about a year,
it's gonna have about an equal amount
of the same plastics leeched into it.
It doesn't take a lot of
time for that to happen.
So you could go without water
if you're dying of thirst
and avoid drinking whatever
plastics are in there.
Or you can just suck it up
and drink the plastics and live,
and then figure out
how to get the plastics
out of you later on.
You say though, why would
there be an expiration date
on my bottle of water?
It turns out in 1987
New Jersey passed a law
that said everything, all foodstuffs,
including water, which is
considered a food by Jersey,
has to have an expiration
date of two years
stamped right on.
Well everybody who's making
bottled water at the time
said we're not gonna make
a whole run of bottles
just for New Jersey that have the stamp,
we're gonna stamp everything.
It's more cost efficient,
it just makes sense,
and hence bottled water has
an expiration date on it.
Even though New Jersey repealed that law
as far as bottled water goes in 2006,
people still want it, they expect it.
They're gonna say what up with this water?
It doesn't have an expiration date,
I'm not buying that.
That's why water has an expiration date.
And no, water doesn't really go bad
As long as it's stored in a correct place
and kept sealed, okay?
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