bad for the environment.
bottled water - costly, bad for the environment (because of transportation costs - global warming - rising costs of oil). Cost of a barrel of oil, $98; cost of barrel of bottled water, $185





bad for the environment.
bottled water - costly, bad for the environment (because of transportation costs - global warming - rising costs of oil). Cost of a barrel of oil, $98; cost of barrel of bottled water, $185
Love it!
its also bad because it is over priced and many people are too lazy to recycle. But tap water isnt so clean in many places... sigh





i guess brita is our answer
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tap water is clean enough for drinking purposes in most of the united states that doesn't have people living with well water. and even much of the well water is perfectly fine for drinking.
bottled water companies often sell tap water, in fact.
Dasani, for one. I heard from a guy that used to work for them that their water was just tap water.





^Like Aquafina and Dasani. Both tap water.
Because there ain't no tits on the radio
It's not whether it IS clean enough--it's the perception of clean.
^^Where I live, every time the lakes turn, we're suddenly drinking brown water that tastes like a mixture or metal, dirt, and sewage--and I live in a large metropolitan area...
I'm sorry, but I'd choose bottled water any day over that.
Though, I agree. Brita filters are the answer.





I don't get why people want special water anyway. I mean, what is the big deal about "spring water?" I get why people want mineral waters like Fiji, but other than that... ???
I'll get Fiji once in a blue moon because I think it tastes better and has a better aftertaste than Dasani or Aquafina. Maybe people think they're getting better quality in some?
Man, that's depressing. My best friends are constantly drinking bottled water thinking it's the best water out there for them when their tap water is just as good where they live and even better if they use a filter. Where I live now, our water randomly turns a really nasty yellow/brown color due to iron I'm guessing and I can't get myself to drink it no matter what so I drink other stuff until it clears up. I can't even get myself to bathe in it. *cringes*





Hmmm. I'm not getting the "obvious" part. What about it coming from natural springs makes it so much better?
It's not hard if you have recycling bins everywhere.. Vegas doesn't. I would have to horde my trash every month or so until I could bring it down to a recycling center. Actually, I'm thinking about starting to do that.
I really hate the fact that we don't have bins so readily available here, back home in IL. it was a part of everyday life, everyone did it.
I horde my recyclables and bring them to the recylcling center, NM doesn't have the law or blue-bin pick-up days like NJ does.
I can totally taste the difference. Just last nite I was raving to my bf about how "sorry! I'm not a snob! It's just that PANNA is my FAVORITE! And you can tell the diff bc it's in glass."
I don't buy the 24-packs normally, I have a 5-gallon jug that I refill @ the co-op (how earth-crunchy!)
But---the water where I'm from SMELLS nasty even when you are washing your hands sometimes, so it's given me OCD about it for life. I think NM the water is cleaner, but sometimes I freak about is the state regulating it properly?
Buying bottled water comes from a distrust of the government. There, that's it.
That was a good article. I'm glad ppl are dissenting on a tsunami level.





um, the US government among others regulates (somewhat badly) bottled water. so obviously you're trusting them to not allow companies to bottle water with arsenic in it or something similar...
Eh, I trust Poland Spring. What it means to be from Maine. I trust it's nothing worse than what's coming out of my faucet. I don't drink Dasani or Aquafina.




Not to start anything but tap water is almost the exact same thing. We have a 2 month or less water supply here in Charlotte cause of the drought, they even turned our water off the other day for 4 hours (they said for maintenance purposes but I don't believe that, I think it is cause of water shortage) so I am pretty happy with tap water.





Just get a great water filter like Doulton. You'll save money too.
Hmm. I've never heard of that! Everytime I've had Brita water, it has that Brita taste which is icky 2 me.





Yea, I never liked the Britta taste either. I love Doulton. It's priceir than Britta but worth it in my opinion.
i drink bottled water, but i reuse the bottles and if i don't, i put them in the recycling bin most of the time.
WE are all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sigh: nothing is healthy in this world! NOTHING! :runs off crying:
i have an 'awesome water' purifier. it has a tap for hot water, and one for cold, i can adjust the settings of the temperature for both, so i dont need a kettle either. i just refill my plastic bottle each time. saves money (sorta, the machine was pricey-$800!) but its great.
just buy a purifier










Bottled water is wrapped in plastic, and plastic causes cancer, is made from oil, kills the ozone layer in the process of being made, and will take 400 years to decompose in a landfill. Dasani has salt in it. Really, the ingredients read like: water, salt. It will make you more thirsty.
I drink out of an old wine bottle that I carry around. But I keep a lot of my water in plastic. It's hard to get away from.
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