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- kent1146, on 03/20/2009, -2/+41Because it's ***** expensive, and I'm poor.
- Pulsedriv3r, on 03/20/2009, -3/+35Save Our Water, Drink Beer.
- jer2eydevil88, on 03/20/2009, -6/+30If the water wasn't ***** brown coming out of the tap in my building I wouldn't buy bottled water to drink...
- mctom987, on 03/20/2009, -1/+15That's not the taste of water, but the contaminants in said water.
- BadBBoy, on 03/20/2009, -1/+15You live in Mexico?
- DreamVsPs2, on 03/20/2009, -8/+20Why pay $1.50 when you can get it for free? We should start downloaing H2O and see what the RIAA does about that.
- R33E8, on 03/20/2009, -6/+18I am the only one who can taste water? I can't even drink the tap water in some places (Miami, Florida for instance)...
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -1/+12Sounds very convenient.
- smurfsahoy, on 03/20/2009, -0/+11That water is probably not clean after long term storage. It says right on the bottles to not reuse them, because they can't be sterilized.
- deadbaby, on 03/20/2009, -1/+12I tried carrying a sink around with me but the stupid thing stopped working as soon as I got it out the door.
- pwdrskier, on 03/19/2009, -18/+29bottled water is just bad. drink from the tap!
- inchrnt, on 03/20/2009, -6/+17because companies like pepsi and coke think you're dumb enough to pay them $3 for something you get from your tap for free.
are you? - brownsound00, on 03/20/2009, -0/+10Bottled water, with it's reversed osmosis *****, actually removes the common ions that are in tap water... which is actually unhealthy. You need sodium in your body, and obviously... people get enough sodium, but there are other ions that tap water has that aren't given by bottled water.
plus, who the ***** pays for water? you're already paying a hydro bill. - jakereilly, on 03/20/2009, -2/+11Bottled water is the first step to for-profit corporatized water supplies. Get people to think water SHOULDN'T be free, and then they will willingly pay for it.
Water should be available to everyone, people. Watch Flow, the documentary. - azureskies88, on 03/20/2009, -4/+13For the last time, we are not running out of landfill space, nor will we ever in the foreseeable future. This is a fictional crisis. There are valid reasons for conservation and recycling, but bringing up this point only promotes ignorance.
- smurfsahoy, on 03/20/2009, -1/+10Which is why it's perfectly reasonable to buy a nalgene bottle to hold your convenient, bottled tap water.
- nascentia, on 03/20/2009, -3/+11Here's a valid reason not to drink bottled water - it's full of toxins. The FDA (or is it EPA?) regulates the levels of toxins and the quality that can be in your tap water - it's pretty strict. However, there are ZERO regulations, laws or restrictions on the amount of toxins or chemicals that can be in bottled water. Bottled water, even the expensive "Designer" ones, have been tested and proven to have way, way more parts per million of things like lead and other hazards than any tap water in the US, because all US tap water is regulated and controlled.
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -3/+11Buy a decent plastic water bottle. Done.
- MattNF, on 03/20/2009, -4/+12Flouride does not harm you in extremely small amounts.
You can keep your crazy conspiracy theories. - williepepper, on 03/20/2009, -1/+9You might say that. Los Angeles.
- ricky125, on 03/20/2009, -0/+8maybe you should get a new room mate.
- smurfsahoy, on 03/20/2009, -6/+14It's called a filter. Welcome to the 18th century.
- winelips, on 03/20/2009, -0/+7hippies LIKE that.
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -0/+7Careful, they say cancer-causing chemicals leech into water as the plastic breaks down over time. Get a SIGG bottle instead.
- Wargasmic, on 03/20/2009, -2/+9Bottled water has less stringent regulations than tap water. Keep your ***** water, I'll drink from the tap thank you.
- oboshoe, on 03/20/2009, -1/+8Reasons to drink a bottle of water:
I'm thirsty and there is no faucet in the car. - chedabob, on 03/20/2009, -3/+9Remove your tinfoil hat. Fluoridation occurs naturally, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that your bottled water contains far higher levels of fluoride than tap water, and well above safe levels.
- jarjarwang, on 03/20/2009, -4/+10I save the bottles, fill them back up, and put them in my garage. That way I know I have my share.
- melduforx, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5This article reads like it was written by a retarded goat. Seriously people, if you're going to run a website, how about putting out articles that use some grammar.
- burkish127, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5This article doesn't give very good reasons for not drinking bottled water. Nor does it give insightful alternatives.
I'm not a bottled water drinker, but this article isn't going to sway anybody. - FrankTheTank17, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5It's sad that those companies sell people Coke/Pepsi minus all the syrups and sugar for the same price...
- elliott9, on 03/20/2009, -5/+10I drink alot of water and I get a water bill in the mail. I know in comparison it is cheaper from the tap but its not FREE.
Also the stuff in the bottle is more convenient and taste better.
Also if the bottle is sealed I know my room mate didnt slip something into it. - fuzzynyanko, on 03/20/2009, -2/+7I use a filter. I can't taste much difference between bottled and filtered. The filters themselves are around $8 each but last anywhere from 1-1.5 years.
- Mahargi, on 03/20/2009, -1/+6I pay 300-6000x less than that from the tap.
- smurfsahoy, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_042381560 ...
170 bucks for reverse osmosis. I'm curious as to where you can buy a gallon of bottled water for 17 cents. - hardtoconfuse, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5Bottled spring/artesian and well water usually tastes better than anything the city filtered from your toilet. Bottled "drinking water" like Dasani is toilet water. If you can't tell the difference, then duh, you shouldn't waste money on it.
Fun fact - We and all future generations of mankind will be extinct before most hypothesized effects of pollution take effect. And if mankind inherently decides against recycling, then we will destroy ourselves. Problem solved. - inchrnt, on 03/20/2009, -1/+6@d3dm you trust the lobbyist-owned FDA and you're calling someone "dumbass" ??
remember when cigarettes were safe? remember when coca-cola was recommended for babies over milk?
don't trust anyone who gets paid to tell you the truth. - chedabob, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4Yup, Dasani got banned a while back because it had very high-levels of some toxin.
- GaltShrugged, on 03/20/2009, -3/+7I like bottled water. I also throw the containers in the regular garbage. Hippies piss me off.
- d3dm, on 03/20/2009, -1/+5Hey dumbass, read this...
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ffbotwat.html - leamanc, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4To all these people who say their tap water is free, do you not pay a fee for water on your city utility bill? Water is actually quite expensive in some cities.
What I do is rent a water cooler, just like the one in your office's break room. The five gallons jugs of waer are $4...which is just about $2.00 more than a 12-oz. bottle at the convenience store. It's good and cold all the time, and with a sports bottle, I am saved the wrath of environmentalists. - oboshoe, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4I'm not naive. I know that there are parts of the world where water is an issue.
However, those parts are the world are not having coffee house chats over the evils of water bottles either.
This discussion of water bottle villians is limited to the world of where water is not really an issue. - smurfsahoy, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Oh right, I forgot about the potassium paralysis, etc. That too.
Yeah, it's really not good at all. Dying will cost the average person 100 IQ points... - emt1451, on 03/20/2009, -1/+4if the chemicals are still in the water, they're contaminants
- oboshoe, on 03/20/2009, -1/+4Water is available to everyone.
- Wargasmic, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Thanks for pointing that out, inchrnt.
- Mahargi, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Why don't you just pay a few bucks and get a decent bottle. I have had a hard plastic water bottle for 6 years now. It cost me $10. I drop it all the time, toss is around. It is scratched up but still holds my water.
- pig13, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3What?
- canchin, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Like with so many of these so-called "Reasons to..." the most important reasons are never mentioned.
Water in plastic bottles is dangerous as the plastic leeches into the water and plastic is not a "food."
Plastic water bottles that sit in the sun or inside a warm environment such as a car are even more dangerous because the heat causes even more plastic to leech into the water.
The greatest dangers with tap water are the fluoride - a known cancer-causing substance and the reason to only drink European wine since the level of fluoride in California wines is the highest in the world - chlorine - also highly carcinogenic - and when mixed with the aluminum they also put in most water systems to clarify the water, cause unfiltered tap water to become an extremely toxic and potentially cancer causing substance.
The only way to clean tap water is with a reverse osmosis filter - regular "run of the mill" water filters are as useful as a milk bucket under a bull - but even then, because the fluoride eats through the filters so rapidly they need to be changed every 3 months or they are useless.
The only "bottled" water that can even be graciously described as "safe" is some type of mineral water that is sold in glass bottles and that is accompanied by a full test report showing what substances are actually in the water...but it's cheaper to buy a reverse osmosis filter with a good supply of filters - 4 per year - and then use a stainless steel personal bottle and stay as far away from plastic bottles as possible...and as far away from any fluoridated water as possible...too bad about people in those cities and states that get paid by the companies selling the con of fluoridation or the even greater con of using cryolite as a pesticide (the reason one should never drink California wine as the majority of California orchards use cryolite) as cryolite contains BOTH fluoride and aluminum. - Goombellaofgoom, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3In soviet Russia, tap water is too good for YOU.
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