Bottled water is bullshit
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- utopian10
Philly tap water rocks, period.
- ismith0
Nobody in my town drinks the tap water, it's disgusting. It's like gulping a beaker of chlorine and iron flakes.
- oozie0
filtered tap water is the shit
- akrokdesign0
- there pure also, etc.akrokdesign
- Yeah. Filters help but need to be cleaned almost daily from all the minerals or w/e.ismith
- It just got too annoying, plus we can get bottled water very cheap so it's alright.ismith
- there is higher price for bottle water doh. no matter what.akrokdesign
- 24 bottles for $1ismith
- 24oz bottles, not too bad.ismith
- thats cheap. very.akrokdesign
- Yep. Not sure how they do it, but there's a sale every month or so and we just buy a couple of flats.ismith
- Fariska0
Brita filter ftw.
Using that since 4 years (and gladly introduced that to my family so they now use less bottled water)
- dog_opus0
Not only is it a racket for the easily led, but it makes for a huge amount of garbage piling up in landfills.
- _niko0
and birds go tweet.
- sikma0
Tap water builds character.
- rafalski0
I buy bottled water and I hate doing it as it produces huge amounts of garbage as plastic bottles and costs me dearly. I'll keep doing it until I know they stopped tap water fluoridation.
I just read they did stop it in many European countries (including Belgium, Tank).http://www.jonbarron.org/baselin…
http://www.jonbarron.org/blog_pu…
- janne760
isn't bullshit supposed to be brown?
- rafalski0
or
- hammerofdawn0
What about the piping system? Tap water might be clean from the source, but what if the piping system is infested?
- omg, You're so right! What if?
WHAT MOTHERFUCKING IF?!
What if they're lying to us? What if they're trying to kill us?!detritus - you're an idiothammerofdawn
- WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
*SHRIEK*detritus - omg, what if your plastic bottle is infested with bacteria??!!Jaline
- the "what if" part can happened when ever, and what so ever.akrokdesign
- omg, You're so right! What if?
- stoplying0
Water is for pu$$ies.
Drink beer.
- hedge0
- the girl is something you will never get.omgitsacamera
- Even if at some point I couldn't, I could just buy it.hedge
- Money solves everything, kid.hedge
- hedge0
I accept nothing less.
- rafalski0
- +10.hedge
- i trust him about as much as i trust any politician. It puzzles me why he gets a pass so often from the leftlocustsloth
- holy fuck.omgitsacamera
- that is pretty muc what my office is like at home. Only I have one laptop and no screenslowimpakt
- nearestexit0
http://www.fastcompany.com/magaz…
Some highlights:
• $15 billion was spent on bottled water in 2006
• We drink a billion bottles of water every week
• 1 in 6 people in the world have no dependable, safe drinking water
• The entire bottled-water business today is half the size of the carbonated beverage industry yet there marketing budget is only 15% of what the carbonated beverage industry spends.
• San Francisco’s municipal water comes from Yosemite National Park. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle for once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35 (the cost of the Evian). 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.
• Aquafina (Pepsi) and Dasani (Coke) make up about 24% of the bottled water market. Both are simply purified municipal water.
• American’s went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. Made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, water bottles are totally recyclable. Our current recycling rate for PET is only 23%, which means we pitch 38 billion water bottles every year into landfills (more than $1 billion worth of plastic).- The FastCompany article is a bit old but still an interesting read about bottled water.nearestexit