Bottled water is bullshit
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- 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
- sputnik20
we drink either tap water (denver water is rated one of the best in the country) or i fill nalgene bottles full of the filtered water from the fridge.
people who buy bottled water are morons
- _niko0
and birds go tweet.
- sikma0
Tap water builds character.
- jfletcher0
I was just in Brussells and restaurants won't give you tap water, you have to buy bottles. Fucking retarded.
Beijing and India have been the only places I really drink bottled water... but that was more not to die.
- +1 for india. another would be places in mexico where my body isn't used tothe bacteria there.jaylarson
- Llyod0
penn and teller are great
- 20/20 covered this before too.
(I'm probably the only geek who watches it though).Jaline - hehe... saw that ep. too. :)PonyBoy
- others also watch 20/20, Jaline... but chances are you are the only geek watching it. :)PonyBoy
- haha. it can be informative sometimes.Jaline
- yeah.. there is a reason 20/20 is on tv.. cause people are watching right? http://www.worldopin…Meeklo
- 20/20 covered this before too.
- 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
- lowimpakt0
it takes 3 litres of water to produce 1 litre of bottled water.
that is too funny.
- Raniator0
Fuck bottled water, just get a Brita. Job done.
- omgitsacamera0
The tap I get from Yosemite doesn't need a filter...it's good without one.
Yet the tap out of my fridge tastes worse.
- rafalski0
http://www.brita.net/glossary9.h…
What a pile of pr bullshit. They first say adding fluoride to water is controversial, then end it with:
"BRITA products have no effect on the fluoride content of water.", presenting the failure to remove fluoride as something good in a filter.
- Khurram0
PR bullshit?
Reads more like an informative summary on the pros and cons of fluoride and an honest remark on the effects of Brita on fluoride levels; Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper....
- rafalski0
Yes, writing
"BRITA products have no effect on the fluoride content of water."
instead of
"our products don't filter fluoride out of water"
is bullshitting to me, presenting a failure as a virtue.
- locustsloth0
Dasani water contains salt (it's right on the label), which actually makes you thirstier
- sodium keeps you hydrated. During the summer and outdoor activities I will actually take tbsp's of salt daily with water.Point5
- Care to elaborate?
I thought that shit was supposedly totally filtered?detritus - Aye, sodium != salt. Besides, the Dasani site says it's got 0g of the stuff!detritus
- Well, geez, if you guys wanna use FACTS and stuff....i'll shut up nowlocustsloth
- omgitsacamera0
I'm loving draining the Hetch Hetchy...