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- DeviantDragon, on 05/05/2008, -2/+75"evaporation loss that takes place"
That isn't really loss of water as it's still in the water cycle and it isn't being contaminated in this process. - brjohnson789, on 05/05/2008, -9/+71I'm really sick of hearing about the bottled water backlash, because I always then have to read 'just drink tap'. I'm NOT going to drink tap when my city and multiple other cities warn pregnant women not to drink the tap water. If its bad enough for them, why is it pefectly ok for me? This should be mentioned in all these anti-bottled water articles. Get a water filter, best of both worlds.
- wonderchemist, on 05/05/2008, -3/+48True if you are in a first would country. But when I go vacationing in Mexico I always drink water out of a bottle.
- santaliqueur, on 05/05/2008, -7/+42Can humans do ANYTHING without being considered bad? Maybe we should all commit suicide, it would be better for the earth.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/05/2008, -0/+29"In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It's so good the EPA doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000."
From page 5 of http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-m ... - TheUngod, on 05/05/2008, -1/+24It may take 3 gallons of water to make 1, but it's not like water is actually "lost." Unless you're breaking apart the molecule, the water still exists in some way. Still, if you don't like it, get a damn Brita filter or something.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/05/2008, -0/+21From page 6-7 of http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-m ...
"The label on a bottle of Fiji Water says "from the islands of Fiji." Journey to the source of that water, and you realize just how extraordinary that promise is. From New York, for instance, it is an 18-hour plane ride west and south (via Los Angeles) almost to Australia, and then a four-hour drive along Fiji's two-lane King's Highway.
Every bottle of Fiji Water goes on its own version of this trip, in reverse, although by truck and ship. In fact, since the plastic for the bottles is shipped to Fiji first, the bottles' journey is even longer. Half the wholesale cost of Fiji Water is transportation--which is to say, it costs as much to ship Fiji Water across the oceans and truck it to warehouses in the United States than it does to extract the water and bottle it.
That is not the only environmental cost embedded in each bottle of Fiji Water. The Fiji Water plant is a state-of-the-art facility that runs 24 hours a day. That means it requires an uninterrupted supply of electricity--something the local utility structure cannot support. So the factory supplies its own electricity, with three big generators running on diesel fuel. The water may come from "one of the last pristine ecosystems on earth," as some of the labels say, but out back of the bottling plant is a less pristine ecosystem veiled with a diesel haze." - Julik, on 05/05/2008, -1/+19They suggest that some pregnant women not drink Caffeine too.. That doesn't mean it is going to poison people... The reason they are so cautious when it comes to pregnancy is that they are unsure of how some chemicals will react to an undeveloped fetus. If you are a fully grown adult your body is used to disposing of all kinds of stuff that is far worse than what is in your tap water.
- juankovo, on 05/05/2008, -4/+22For a summer vacation, I will buy a case of bottled water and freeze it. Then I use it to keep my cooler cool for several days, and I can drink ice-cold water as it thaws. I save the bottles and refill and refreeze them when I have access to a freezer.
For any other use, bottled water is clearly evil. - ncc74656m, on 05/05/2008, -4/+21You're such an idiot. Do you even COMPREHEND the amount of CO2 that would release into the atmosphere?
- eliteblast, on 05/05/2008, -7/+24I find it funny how all these "anti-bottled water" people only refer to water. What about coca-cola, and other beverages? Don't they use water? Stop crying over nothing. I'd rather people be paying for bottled water, than drinking soda by the gallon.
Guess what? I buy bottled water, because I do not like fluoride in my water, fluoride is a posion used to kill rats. - santaliqueur, on 05/05/2008, -0/+16Whoops, you're right. We need to find an environmentally clean way to kill ourselves. WHY ISNT THE GOVERNMENT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS
- demigod, on 05/05/2008, -1/+16Wait so it evaportates and goes back into the water stream and this is an issue? It's not like its totally lost here people.
- p51d007, on 05/05/2008, -1/+16I'm not a lib or tree hugger by any means, but this whole bottled water thing is something I never understood.
When Perier/Evi an started the whole "bottled water" thing, I never understood why someone would BUY something
you can get for free from a tap or water fountain. - blakeage, on 05/05/2008, -0/+15Crap, I still do...out of an old, old hose in fact. Maybe I'm slowly dying.....
- ralphodog, on 05/05/2008, -0/+14Can somebody post one of these warnings for pregnant women? It's been mentioned twice so far in these comments, but I've never heard of such an instance before.
- brjohnson789, on 05/05/2008, -6/+20If this were true, why are there constant warnings from many US cities for pregnant women not to drink the tap water? I'd say one good reason then to drink bottled water is that it isn't full of poison. I think buying a water filter for home is better though, and cheaper.
- thespudmall, on 05/05/2008, -2/+16Where the hell do you live? Mexico?
- PhantomRogue, on 05/05/2008, -4/+18You do realize that as kids, most of us drank from the outside spiquet and we are fine. All these warnings are *****, local water authorities are mandated to have amount of filtering and whatnot done to their water before it hits the consumer anyway.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -6/+19just drink the water and shut up....if you're really that worried about the environmental aspects of the fiji water, you wouldn't be drinking it in the first place...
- jarjarjanks, on 05/05/2008, -2/+14OMG 17 million barrels of oil per YEAR! Im sure that has a really significant effect on the price of oil, especially when you consider that in 2005 the US was consuming 21 million barrels of oil per DAY. For that mathematically challenged, that's 0.2%
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world ...
Lay off bottled water, people like it and it makes you look stupid - trollick, on 05/05/2008, -2/+13A bottle of tap water - 0 dollars
Still being able to communicate that you're a douchebag - priceless. - Harabeck, on 05/05/2008, -1/+12Tap water is often cleaner than bottled water.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/health/14real.ht ... - endlessoul, on 05/05/2008, -3/+13Fluoride strengthens your teeth.
A poison to one being is not a poison to another. - xDynaBlade, on 05/05/2008, -5/+15Solution: buy a liter-sized water bottle and fill it up in the sink every morning and drink out of it throughout the day. That's what I do.
- 8ight, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9Yep, I read that and thought this is some idiot on a soap box pulling facts out of his ass. I do agree bottled water is a big waste though.
- ncc74656m, on 05/05/2008, -3/+12Better, Nalgene or similar bottles. They don't have that plastic-y taste to them, and they're durable enough to last longer.
- timusca, on 05/05/2008, -4/+13Any drugs in your water are so minuscule that they would never effect you in any way... and whether you're drinking it or not, your skin will absorb it in the shower.
Tap water in the US has to be conditioned to a certain state before it is ready for consumption... and it is perfectly safe. If it weren't it would be illegal. Go tour your local water treatment plant... I did back in college, and I have to admit, I was quite impressed... there's nothing wrong with your tap water, whether or not someone snorted, vomited, or shat it in it before it was treated. - aolson1, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9You have a point. I'm sure the environmental cost of a bottle of coke is far higher than a bottle of water. Yet nobody seems to slam Coke or Pepsi for harming the environment.
- Scottievm, on 05/05/2008, -14/+23Buried for being hippie environmentalist *****. Seriously, just leave me alone. If I want to waste my money on bottled water, then I will. It's none of your business.
- Ganja420, on 05/05/2008, -10/+18I enjoy my water out of styrofoam only... if its plastic or glass i pour it into a styrofoam and throw away the bottle
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8get a water filter?
- TenebrousX, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8soaring *detection* rates of autism, diabetes, allergies, cancer, and respiratory ailments
fixed - jordanmerle, on 05/05/2008, -2/+10Who the ***** really cares. Why are people so self-righteous that they get all upset about bottled water hurting their mother earth? I think its stupid to pay for a commodity that is practically free on a regular basis, but there are instances where the convenience of buying bottled water can be justified i.e. when on a road trip or in a country with a poor filtration systems.
- carguy84, on 05/05/2008, -4/+12Make the water that comes out of my tap taste like, well, nothing, and I will start drinking it. Otherwise, it's Poland Springs or nada.
- RogerStrong, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8This article is mostly BS. They take extreme cases and call them the norm.
We pick up the occasional five-gallon bottle of water on the way home from work. The water is purified on site. There's no "transportation costs" - no effect on global warming.
Reverse osmosis may have evaporation loss, but so what? You haven't wasted or destroyed the "lost" water, it's still in the water cycle, available for reuse. The electricity needed (here in Winnipeg) is hydro-generated, so again no effect on global warming.
The 5-gallon bottles are returned for reuse.
And there is a need for it. We get algae blooms during summer months. We also live in an older area, still serviced by lead pipes. - psion01, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7Give 'em time. I promise if they have any success at all with this anti-bottled-water agenda, bottled sodas and juices are next.
- Raider8654, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8I hope the bottled water you are reusing is composed of the "good" kind of plastic. The bottles are otherwise not supposed to be reused, as doing so increases the odds of consuming the toxic chemicals leeched from the plastic:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-ar ...
Personally, I have been using HDPE bottles and they work great for reuse. - doommachine, on 05/05/2008, -2/+9Proof? There's none in the article.
- RogerStrong, on 05/05/2008, -2/+8False.
- aidave, on 05/05/2008, -5/+11Nonsense. If there is no reason to buy bottled water, there is no reason to buy Coca cola, or any bottled pop. Sometimes people dont want to drink sugary drinks, water is needed in bottles. I find this whole anti-bottled water thing absurd. Yeah, dont drink only bottled water, but lets not be idiots and try to ban it altogether.
- zadadka, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink......free.
- akrondude, on 05/05/2008, -1/+7and whether you're drinking it or not, your skin will absorb it in the shower.
thats why i have a filter in my shower head; filters all the chlorine and other junk right out. - Grok22, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6we do contrary to popular belief.
- nicko68, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Do you yell at anyone who drives SUVs or minivans as well?
- pathouston22, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6How is tap water free? Last time I checked, I have a water bill.
I refuse to drink Houston's tap water. It tastes like crap. Those who have lived here their whole lives probably don't know the difference, but I've lived up north for a couple summers, the tap water up there is GREAT! - modularsky, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5The world isn't one ecosystem and watershed though. For example in India people are rioting against coca-cola right now because they are taking their groundwater for use in coca-cola manufacturing; this water is sent to the furthest corners of the Asian subcontinent; it's not as if the water returns to the same place it came from (this is the case with tap water).
- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -3/+8i'm going to just get this off my chest
FU*K OFF with your save the planet, bottled water is ruining the world, DIGG CARES, MY TAP WATER IS FINE, I USE THE SAME BOTTLE over and over again,
If someone has the money and wants to waste it on bottled water, and doesn't care beyond that, it's fine.
There are about 10,000 other issues that make a bigger impact than this.
Get a life you WATER FREAKS. -
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