Bottled water

[JohnnyAnger]

I regularly see immigrants over here buying six- or twelve-packs of bottled water. They probably believe our tap water is as bad as in their country. A shame for all the money they're shoving up the asses of those companies and the waste produced.

Actually it takes a while for a lot of people to get use to the tap water in the US, while they can drink the tap water back home just fine. It has a lot of microbes that Americans develop an immunity to over a life time pretty easily, but an adult coming in has no resistance to it and can thus become sick.

 

[LeicsDom]

Bottled water in France is really part of the culture now. Evian, Vittel, Volvic and Perrier, of course, being major brands. These are guaranteed natural and it is only here on JUB that I have heard of tap water being sold as bottled water.

This was a major investigation some years ago that proved that untreated tap water was being sold as Bottled Water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190027/Asda-Tesco-selling-tap-water-bottled-water-confusing-customers.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/038840_dasani_tap_water_purified.html
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1883516/britains_love_affair_with_bottled_water_a_national_scandal.html

 

[dpnice]

This was a major investigation some years ago that proved that untreated tap water was being sold as Bottled Water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190027/Asda-Tesco-selling-tap-water-bottled-water-confusing-customers.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/038840_dasani_tap_water_purified.html
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1883516/britains_love_affair_with_bottled_water_a_national_scandal.html

After reading those three articles it makes you wonder why people still buy bottled water, at least cheap, own label brands. The French have always bought bottled water from known sources and I am unaware if supermarkets here sell tap water (I must check the bottles on my next trip).

We drink the four major brands in this household, though I see no reason why we shouldn't be drinking the tap water. Habit and being influenced by strong marketing I suppose.

 

[Telstra]

Bottled water is good to carry around, so i use bottled water or tap water in the bottle when going out
and tap filtered water when at home.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

This was a major investigation some years ago that proved that untreated tap water was being sold as Bottled Water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190027/Asda-Tesco-selling-tap-water-bottled-water-confusing-customers.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/038840_dasani_tap_water_purified.html
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1883516/britains_love_affair_with_bottled_water_a_national_scandal.html

After reading those three articles it makes you wonder why people still buy bottled water, at least cheap, own label brands. The French have always bought bottled water from known sources and I am unaware if supermarkets here sell tap water (I must check the bottles on my next trip).

We drink the four major brands in this household, though I see no reason why we shouldn't be drinking the tap water. Habit and being influenced by strong marketing I suppose.

Bottled tap water does indeed exist, but people who think all drinkable tapwater tastes exactly like all bottled water are either idiots or have no tastebuds.

 

[dpnice]

Bottled tap water does indeed exist, but people who think all drinkable tapwater tastes exactly like all bottled water are either idiots or have no tastebuds.

I personally have never considered which water to drink according to taste. Strange as it may seem the thought of water having a taste is something I have never thought about; thus my indifference to drinking either bottled or tap water.

 

[gsdx]

But, if a bottled water company moves into a city and ships tons of water out, doesn't that push the water bill/rates/cost up for the locals? I hope those cities have the water to spare.

The two major sources of bottled water is the municipal water supply and aquifers. According to the documentary I watched, companies in Canada pay an average or between $3 and $4 per 1,000 litres of water. If the water supply is metered, they pay the industrial rate, which is undoubtedly less that what residents pay.

Bottled water has its time and place and use, but as an everyday source of water, it's ridiculous to pay so much it. North America has the largest supply of fresh drinking water in the world and it's literally being pissed away.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I personally have never considered which water to drink according to taste. Strange as it may seem the thought of water having a taste is something I have never thought about; thus my indifference to drinking either bottled or tap water.

For one, some countries chlorinate their tapwater.

I like the idea of having a dinner by a swimming pool, but I'm slightly less thrilled with the taste of public swimming pool in my water glass.

 

[zoltanspawn]

People are making an aristocrat's feast from a peasant's pantry.

Won't last forever, but that's a problem for lesser beings.

 

[ronboy]

I live in the Great Lakes region of North America, as does my friend, Neil.
Much of the drinking water supply in the Rochester area comes from Lake Ontario.
The remainder comes from two near-pristine Finger Lakes called Canadice and Hemlock Lakes.

People from around the world, covet fresh water from the Great Lakes. There was even a proposal from Japan to bring empty water tanker ships into The Great Lakes, to bring water back to Japan, which has limited fresh water resources.

If it is a hot day, and I am out and about, I may rehydrate with a purchased bottle of water. But at home, I have one of the highest quality tap water sources coming right out of my faucets. No need to buy it.....

 

[GreyUnderscore]

I don't understand why people buy bottled water when you can buy a water filter and refill a water bottle. I may buy a bottle of water when I'm out but that doesn't happen as often.

Most of the bottled water I've had tasted strange anyway.

 

[frankfrank]

I buy one-gallon jugs of water, and I refill the empties from a reverse-osmosis filter H2O dispenser at the supermarket. I also will travel with these jugs of water. I've gotten to prefer ROOM TEMPERATURE water instead of cold, so drinking water that isn't cold is no issue for me at all...I'll even drink the hot water if it's been sitting in my car all day and it's 97 degrees outside.

At home, I will NOT drink my tap water. I get well water at home, and it comes out yellowish, and I'm entirely surrounded by farms. They ONLY EVER grow corn or sometimes soybeans here (NOTHING ELSE in my 28 years here, and never has a field been unplanted/fallow for any season), and this basically mono-cultivation tells me that the fields are LOADED with Round-Up and such crap and no doubt it's in my water.

I'm even rather leery about taking SHOWERS in my own water supply. I don't know what my skin is absorbing.

I see no reason to buy bottled water, though. Refilling the gallon jugs works fine for me.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

folk drink bots cause human civs full a shit no trust fa eons cue planet

tinkyou

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Most of the bottled water I've had tasted strange anyway.

That was the point. It's supposed to taste better than tap water.

 

[GreyUnderscore]

That was the point. It's supposed to taste better than tap water.

But it didn't taste better.

 

[Willie Boy]

Most of the bottled water I've had tasted strange anyway.

That's the stuff they put in to remove the chlorine taste.

 

[72-Jay]

I drink tap water, no filter or anything either. I've heard the water here is top rated anyway.
I also re-use Gatorade/etc bottles, refilling them with tap water. (and when I'm done with a bottle it goes in the recycle)

Don't know if its true or not, but I've heard 'Aquafina' water comes from the same water system as the tap water I drink...
(only diff being that Pepsi/Aquafina filters it before bottling.)

 

[zoltanspawn]

I don't understand why people buy bottled water when you can buy a water filter and refill a water bottle.

Think of the effort, think of the strain.

 

[LeicsDom]

Bottled tap water does indeed exist, but people who think all drinkable tapwater tastes exactly like all bottled water are either idiots or have no tastebuds.

I agree
But filtered tap water tastes better than tap or bottled water

 

[LeicsDom]

We drink the four major brands in this household, though I see no reason why we shouldn't be drinking the tap water. Habit and being influenced by strong marketing I suppose.

The only time I drink bottled water is when I am abroad.
This is because even the cleanest tap water in the best First World country will be different to what I am used to and would probably upset my stomach. Not something I want to risk on holiday