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- illynova, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"Except Evian...that's good water."
Ever spell Evian backwards?
Yup, thats right. NAIVE. - uncle_dad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I always figure that it comes out of a tap somewhere, I'm under no illusions.
Except Evian...that's good water. - Stikes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Ever spell Evian backwards?
Yup, thats right. NAIVE."
I love irony. - GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In 2004 Coke had to withdraw Dasani from sale in the UK after it was discovered that they had added illegally high levels of bromate to the water. Bromate has been linked to cancer and some of their samples contained more than double the UK's legal limit.
So yeah, bottled water is not necessarily better for you. - phocai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The story says .."At up to $2.50 per liter ($10 per gallon)". Obviously you can buy it for cheaper but think of all the bottled water sold in vending machines for $1 to $1.50 each. At my local cinema, a one liter bottle of Dasani water costs $4. You can plan ahead and buy bottled water wholesale for much less but when you're out somewhere you end up buying a single bottle of water in a gas station, from a vending machine or at an event and this really adds up.
But the point is that whether you're paying premium prices or wholesale, the cummulative price of a nation, or the world for that matter, drinking bottled water is astronomical - economically, socially and environmentally. - Thud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Brita filter. Turns tap water into good water.
Also turns really bad, cheap vodka into somewhat reasonable vodka. - GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Original BBC story about the Dasani/Bromate incident:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3550063.stm
Even Coke admitted that it took it's water straight off the mains water at a factory in Sidcup, Kent. - agpc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The great thing about bottled water is it's portability.
But there really is no point in drinking bottled water if you are at home. Its just a waste of money. - grayBot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4ok lemme sum this up :
bottled water is a ***** evil product for the following reasons in order of importance:
1) its mostly taken from privatizing water in 3rd world countries, thus depriving very poor people of clean water ( more money is made selling it to coca-cola inc. )
2) plastic is hugely wasteful - it takes oil to make, and leaves a huge amount of trash
3) its not anymore healthy, -its probably worse -plastic does break down in heat; chances are if those shipments of bottled water have been sitting in a hot warehouse for even a short length of time.......
congratulations you are drinking plastic. - DrEbola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well look, if people are stupid enough to buy it--if it's in demand--it's not the companies that are to blame. It's the consumer.
- DrEbola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>Another bottle of Perrier, please.
MHHAAH, MMYESS ONE MORE BAWWTTLE OF PERRIER PLEASE WORDSWORTH... DISSSGUSTING PEASANT WATEH I SAY--DISGUSTING!
I actually only drink water that's bled from baby angels and filtered through diamond. - Nacon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It all depends on location.
Over here (Belgium) tap water doesn't taste as good as bottled water but is consumable.
If you go to Spain for example tap water will make you sick, even in hotels.
A few years ago i visited Sweden, good luck finding regular bottled water there... All they have is carbonated bottled water. But that's because tap water over there tastes as good as bottled water.
Also id like to know where it is you pay $2.5 per liter? i doubt you'd pay more than that for 10 liter here. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It isn't fraud. It is mearly an "idiot tax". Ethically dubious, at worst.
- Giggy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Always drink from a garden hose.
- Motobike_man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2earlier comment:
"If you want good cheep water, go to the grocery store and buy distilled water by the gallon."
Distilled water isn't good for you, you ***** moron. It has no minerals in it so it will suck the needed minerals out of you causing mineral deficiencies.
do a google search on "drink distilled water" - jimmyM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3when i buy bottled water i buy it for the service of somebody having put water in a bottle for me and selling it to me at the location where i am thirsty.
i wouldnt care if it was tap water, i just like portability of it. i would rather just buy a bottle of water for 1.50 at the convenience store when i am thirsty than have to fill up and lug around my own bottle all the time.
i dont think anybody with a brain thinks bottled water is different or worth buying for the actual quality of the water. its just water. if the news here is that many people are stupid, then i already knew that. - Zeuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stupid or not stupid, bad or good, I think it exposes the issues with the water systems in certain cities.
Seems like many people simply trust bottled water more than municipal water systems and for good reason; several people died from drinking tap water in Walkerton, Ontario, Canada a few years ago. I bet the people drinking bottle water that day felt justified in paying a premium to save their lives!!!! And this is in a country which has the largest fresh water supply on the planet !!!!
If anything, those $100 Billion people spend on bottle water should probably be spent towards upgrading the tap water systems and ensuring people get value for their money.
The success of bottle water stems from the mistrust people have in tap water. You know what? Good for you! It's not my place to tell people how to spend money... I just have to figure how to make them spend their money so it ends up in my pocket ;) - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It has no minerals in it so it will suck the needed minerals out of you causing mineral deficiencies."
Water has H and 2 Os. That is what your body needs. You get your needed minerals from everything else.
Man, collectively, DIGGers are a few steps below the average IQ level, aren't they? - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would like to see a site that tells me which cities/areas have bad and good tap water.
- vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dasani(aquafina) is just coke(pepsi) without the syrup and carbonation. It IS tap water that you pay the same price as a soda for WITHOUT the soda part of it. Nobody regulates the bottled water industry so most of them probably care more about making a buck thank having a good product. Filter your own tap water if you think that things like flouride (which helps your teeth) and calcium (which helps your bones) is so bad for you.
Yea, it may be convenient sometimes or the only option but it never hurt anyone to be an informed consumer, particularly when most people pay taxes which are used to supply them with clean, well-monitored, government regulated, tap water systems. - eljeffe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't get it, there's enough uninformed drivel here to make me puke.
Yes, relying on bottled water when you have easy access to good tap water is probably stupid; Like everything else, however, there are exceptions ... convenience, people who substitute bottled water for soda (no cost effective, but definitely better for you, no easy access to tap water, traveling, etc... As with anything the answer to "does this make sense?" is probably "It depends..."
WRT to Danasi, people need to get a clue, of COURSE it comes from the tap, where the heck else it it going to come from? It's also run through the same treatment process that Coke uses for its soft drink bottling operations, probably one of the most rigorous processes anywhere. WTF do people think semi fabs get the purified (almost pure h2o) water for their operations ... from the freaking TAP!!! How about the salts? No, they're not used for "purification," they're used to add TASTE to the water; most people don't/wouldn't like the (lack of ) taste of pure h2o - thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Havitng just come back fram Mexico from the weekend and having *not* gotten sick this time, I am of the mindset that there really is a place for bottled water in this world.
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Americans are consumer lemmings - they will buy whatever the marketing departments tell them to buy.
- M3Parker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just buy a Birta Filter...better return on that investment than buying bottled water in bulk
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i cant drink anything but bottled water.. its no fraud. to me, tap water doesnt compare with bottled water.
btw evian water is terrible. - Floach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tap water has always tasted vastly better to me than bottled - for one thing, it's actually aerated when coming out of the tap. I constantly have friends and family trying to push bottled water on me when I ask for water, but I always decline; bottled water is a waste of money and doesn't taste good, either. I only get it when I'm on the road.
Reminds me of some bottled water my mom bought at K-Mart one time: the label said "Source: Miami-Dade Municipal Water Supply." UGH! Needless to say, I didn't drink any ..... - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only way you would catch me buying bottled water was if I didn't have a choice and was just that thirsty for some water. Other then that I just get it from the tap or a fountain.
And I have to agree with a previous poster on Chicago water (seeing that I lived there for almost 30 years). It's some of the best water you can have from the tap. However, I went on a trip to Mt. Rushmore and the tap water in the hotel I was staying in was almost addictive. I've never tasted water that good before. The manager said it was just plain regular tap. - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1people will pay for their preference. some people don't like coke so they buy pepsi. some people don't like the taste of their tap water, and with the full knowledge that some bottled waters are from municipal sources, they'll drink a specific bottled water because they like the taste better. the only problem is if you think bottled water is better on the basic principle that tap water is nasty and only spring water is good, that's when you're being tricked. but even then, if it tastes better to you, that's all that matters.
many people say that water is water, and it all tastes the same. or there's the people who can't taste the difference between canned drinks and their bottled counterparts. this makes me wonder if some people really have a sense of taste at all. like the people who can sing and sing and sing and have no idea that they're not even close to being in the right key, or people who dont really hear the music at all and just know the lyrics. what are those people hearing in their ears and brains? because obviously some people can hear the difference. and some people can taste the difference. just because YOU have no idea that your water tastes like *****, that doesn't make other people that can tell the difference are wrong for buying a high priced bottled water if it tastes better to them. - KathrynWells, on 07/28/2009, -0/+1Bottled water contains harmful chemicals that leach into the water you drink. Have you ever noticed that stale plastic taste in the water after drinking from an old water bottle that you found lying under your car seat? Or how about that horrible plastic flavor in your Brita filter container after 2 years of use? Bisphenol-A is one chemical that has been shown to leach from plastics due temperature changes and repeated contact with detergents. Picture all of the various climates and extreme temperatures that bottle water goes through before getting to your local grocery store. Then imagine it sitting in the stock room for months before getting to the shelves where it sits for a few weeks. Then imagine it sitting in your garage before you crack open the plastic wrapper to your pallet of plastic water bottles. Time marches on, and BisphenolA leaches into the water.
Here's a cheap, healthy alternative to drinking from plastic water bottles:
Buy a tall 32oz. glass bottle of mineral water.
Drink the water.
Fill the glass bottle with filtered alkaline water.
Reuse the glass bottle over and over again.
Save your cells, and save the planet from unnecessary plastic recycling. Not using is better than recycling. We seemed to have forgotten that. - snupples, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You morons never drank LA water. When you pour a glass of water from the tap and it literally looks like watered-down milk, anything tastes better.
- TCDToxic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Less then 1 person rules over what they put in those bottles.
Thousands of people make sure what comes out of your faucet is clean. - po6ot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Water is for noobs anyway. I only drink Coca Cola. I still have a few blackened stumps left where my teeth used to be.
- jmcqk6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Alot of people in rural America can't drink the water in their localities because of pesticides, excessive iron, excessive lime and calcium that eats the pipes and valves right out of your house. Bottled water is often the only source of drinkable water for alot of people, regardless of what the EPA might want you to think."
This is BS. I lived in Rural America, and there has never been any problem with pesticides, excessive iron, lime and calcium to the point that the water was undrinkable. You do have to watch for mineral buildups, but it isn't a big problem.
God, I can't stand people who sensationalize. - Zeuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FOR ALL THE TAP WATER FANS: THINK OF THE DEAD PEOPLE IN WALKERTON ONTARIO !
And the thousands that ended up in the hospital with e-coli poisoning. Bet they would've wished they drank bottled water that day. - raster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another fun fact: "The CDC estimates that each year, infectious drinking water sickens a million Americans and kills a thousand." - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9609/02/nfm/water.quality/
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"> Man, collectively, DIGGers are a few steps below the average IQ level, aren't they?
How about two Hs and one O. Few steps, yeah."
Agreed. Think about this if you want to be scared. Consider how dumb the average person is and then remember that they are the AVERAGE; half are even dumber than they are. - zizzybaloobah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have to give props to Coke and Pepsi -- it wasn't enough for them to make brazilians of dollars on products that are essentially water, flavoring, and sweeteners -- they stick a fancy label on what is probably their lowest cost ingredient and sell it the same price as their finished product -- why didn't I think of that?!
- LordRahl72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+125 years ago I would never have thought that people would be going to stores to buy bottle water. It was unthinkable.
But I guess we will be saying the same thing in 20 years when people are spending billions of dollars to go to convenience stores to buy bottle air. - jeff4379, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mark1372:
This is untrue: http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/articles/Halden_dioxins.html - DuneAdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a Millwright, I've installed/repaired water filtrations systems in both the major bottled water supplier of CA, and the major tap water supplier in CA. I will say this, the filtration systems are almost identical, the tap water system just being about 100x bigger. Tap water has a large sediment removal system to filter the water before it is processed. The major difference between the two is that the tap water is forced to use higher amounts of bleach and chlorine to keep the water from turning bad before it gets to your house. The water sits in numerous covered reservoirs throughout it's distribution. On the other hand, bottled water uses ozone sealed in the bottle which requires less bleach and chlorine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I dare any of you in the Phoenix, AZ area to drink tap water on a regular basis.
Bring a toothpick, you will need it after drinking but one glass.
I really don't like looking at 'things' floating around in water, nor taste those same 'things'.
I have no choice but to get bottled water, fraud or not. - myskja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bottled water is not better for us...? Well, in my case bottled water has replaced a considerable daily consumption of soda pop. And if that's not good, then I don't know what is...
- dasc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All water is mountain spring water at some point. Then it runs downhill and fills in the groundwater table. When the pressure is too high it comes out of the ground as a spring, river or lake. It either sits there, evaporates or runs out to the ocean. From the ocean, it evaporates or leaches back into the groundwater table. When it evaporates it forms clouds and eventually rains or snows back down to start the cycle anew.
- KathrynWells, on 07/28/2009, -0/+1I like Fiji and SmartWater—although there's always that problem of Bisphenol-A in the water. I'd like to keep my reproductive organs intact, thank you—not that I'm planning on having any little gremlins running around anytime soon...
- arpspoof, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have a firm belief that SPRING water is worth being put in a bottle. If it says purified or filtered, I don't bother. I would only accept filtered if it was reverse-osmosis and that is not cost efficient for companies to do that. Ever look at the local water reports on what is in the water? Sure you say filters for your tap are cheap, but most of those cheap filters are carbon filters, and only take out a small amount of things like chlorine, that effects taste. Do a google search on the subject. I bet this article was paid for by some interested parties, or someone was just written in ignorance. But I do believe people who buy "filtered" water are getting duped.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps for a small minority of paranoids who require absolutely pure water, but not for most people. They use bottled water for other reasons.
Businesses use bottled water because they can increase efficiency by placing it nearer to the work area. I don’t know anyone who uses bottled water in their homes. Most people buy the small, portable bottles because they are tired of soft drinks, or because they are on the go and want their water in a convenient, spillproof, and disposable container. Purity is really just a bonus to convenience in the matter: It’s much easier to carry a little water with you than hunt down a source in an indifferent or unfamiliar place. How many times have you sought out a fountain, only to find it out of service, or nearly so. I buy it for convenience, and refill the bottle several times from my home tap before disposing of it. - Beautyon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For all you people who think bottled watter is such a con, read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/water/story/0,,1012165,00.html where it says (amongst other things) that thanks to the recycling of 'toilet water' "...Residues from the contraceptive pill discharged in urine can find their way into tap water. Effluent from contraceptives may be a factor in falling sperm counts."
So, if you want to grow a pair of 'bitch *****' and have a scrotum full of dead sperm, by all means drink tap water! - dlvolk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In Honduras / other parts of central america, shops and restaurants sell .5 L of water in a plastic bag for 10 cents. They should sell these in americas, much less landfill space.
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