I like good ole Southern Sweet Tea
. Grew up drinking it, and love it. Don't need it, as I only get it at the In-Laws on Sundays, cuz I mostly drink water or caffiene free/diet drinks. I do like Cappucino, specially French Vanilla. Love it lol, don't need it, don't drink it during the summer. I drink Yoo Hoo's in the mornings now, just to have a "sweet" drink to cure the morning thirst lol.
Some reports on caffiene show it is actually beneficial to your health in many ways, (Men's Health Magazine).
I work at a city water treatment plant, and some of the "by products" of Chlorine use for disinfection have been thought/shown to be cancer precursers.
Things in water that may be harmful to your health:
Lead
copper
fertilizer (think about that when fertilizing your lawn, we have to test the water for certain chemicals fertilizer puts in water)
Blue Green Algea
Trihalomethanes (Cl2 byproduct)
Haloacitic Acids (CL2 byproduct)
Cryptosporidiam
Giardia
There are many more things, I just can't think of right now. Of course we try to rid the water of these things but, there is the possibility of you getting some of this stuff in your system from drinking water, AND bottled or well water. (Bottled water comes from city drinking water anyway
. Dasani, the plant in NC, uses Charlotte City drinking water, and the Coke plant is right across the street from one of the plants
).
So really if you wanna "pick and chose" what drinks you drink, there's a whole bunch of things ya gotta look at lol. Every drink uses water
.