Bottled Water

At school today, we talked about bottled water. You heard me, that stuff you need to live, that conveniently comes in a bottle.



After watching this, it seems to make sense to me, that bottled water is basically useless compared to tap water. Tap water's cleaner, much cheaper, and tastes better than most bottled water.

In fact, Pepsi Co. stated themselves that Aquafina is no more than filtered tap water. Yet they still make billions of dollars from it every year.

What do you think about this?

Also: inb4 "she sounds like a hippie"

But people like myself find drinking tap water somewhat disgusting...
Plus, when we get sick by drinking tap water, we can't directly sue someone.

Yeah gotta love that. Bottled water is by far the greatest irony in the world today. Hey! Let's pay a couple of bucks for some water! Okay!

But yeah the false advertisement is the best. "Fresh, mountain spring water" and all of that jazz. Ironically enough they don't have to prove that, and don't get in trouble for false advertisement. It is all basically the same tap water.

Just so much fun all around.

- We can pay outlandish prices for water in a bottle
- It's plastic which inevitably is going to harm the environment in one fashion or another
- Can actually be more dangerous since many companies don't disclose their purification methods, the water source, or the chemical pollutant level in each bottle.

If somebody wanted to call Americans a bunch of dumb fucks. THIS is a legit reason that nobody can dodge with excuses.

Also, anybody notice the irony that hipsters or yuppies (traditionally environmentalist supporters) are the ones who drink the most bottled water?

I remember about two years ago there was this little fuck-wit drinking a bottle of water that cost about 5 bucks a bottle. His reasoning "They (government) put fluoride in the drinking water. In the rest of the world they ban the use of any water that contains fluoride."

Annoyed me that he was talking about something he didn't have basic knowledge of to begin with. Couldn't tell me the difference between fluorine or fluoride and didn't even know the basics of water fluoridation or the benefits.

Haha, yeah I love that one. "But, but there is flourine in the water." Oh really, what a horrible turn of events? Good luck with that one.

Yes, because something that might help you curb tooth decay must be horrible.

I have a book entitled "1001 facts that will scare the shit out of you" and it basically states that 40% of all bottled water is just stuff out of a garden hose. Pretty funny actually.

Yeah, a good portion of bottled water is actually straight out of the tap. In fact I think Quadratic's video said one-third, which sounds about right. Amazing how powerful marketing can be to dupe millions of people to pay thousands of times the price of water.

I do agree with everything being said in this thread except for one thing.

Not everywhere does tap water taste better than bottled water. Where I live, in the south of the country, tap water tastes pretty damn awful. I know zero about how healthy it is, but it sure isn't tasteless. In the north though, it used to taste good.

Also, each brand of bottled water tastes different as well. I'm quite picky about my water since it's the liquid I drink the most of, so once I find a cheap brand that tastes 'good' (doesn't taste bad) I tend to stick with it.

Just buy your own reverse osmosis system, their you go, 100% filtered bottled water in your own home! They are not that pricey.

He does have a point. Where I used to live during middle school. The water of that city was slightly less flammable than napalm.

Also that is when you need to start something, a organization or a petition, something to get your water treated. If a place has good water treatment (and companies NOT dumping shit in the water supply) the water is pretty tasty. Bartow Country Ga had some nice water even though lake Allatoona is pretty terrible to swim in. Makes your skin and hair feel greasy and generally nasty but, damn! it tasted good out of the tap. Just don't swim in it or get any in your mouth...or eat anything of the fish out of it. Just, avoid it at all costs.

I couldn't agree more to the video.

I have been always drinking tap water but I'm totally aware that it is not 100% clean because they just added some chemicals on it (e.g. chlorine) so that it would become clean and safe to drink. In 50 years or so I think I would have some sort of disease because of drinking tap water in my whole life. I can't do anything about it anyway.

It's better to have something to drink than nothing.

I used to hate the taste of the tap water in my city, but I guess like everyone else I've grown used to it. I'd actually go as far as to say it tastes better than any of the bottled water I've tasted.

I love living in San Francisco. Arguably the healthiest tap water around, and free tap water at even fast food places... But yea, not everywhere in the US is like that... Take Philly for example... I tell ya the tap water there tastes like grease in water form... course, everything in Philly tasted like grease to me.

There was a time where my family drank our water with mineral water, because it was sponsored by my dads company and we thought it was more health beneficial, being taught that it haves the minerals and all.

We did it for a couple of months and end up disliking the taste and revert back to boiling tap water. (Does not have a extra filter machine at home that filters the tapwater).

This has opened my eyes a bit. I usually drink bottle water when I go out for the convenience. At home, I drink tap water that has been heated and then cooled. (I never drink straight from the tap since we had an ecoli outbreak a few years back somewhere close by so we've been paranoid about it since and heat our water and store it afterwards in a jug.

Bottled water may be a joke here in America, but in other places it's no laughing matter. That plastic can be the difference between being healthy, or having tapeworms and cholera crawling around in your stomach

Stupid idea here, genius idea there

Well I'm all fine drinkin out the hose lol...but where I live now I'd probly get some kind of primordial parasite now so its bottled water for me unless we boil it to drink or use it for cooking.

I have a well, and there is a high sulfur content in the water. it tastes bad, and i think it might be bad to consume to much sulfur. it's OK for showering and laundry(though it makes my clothes smell a bit funny). so i have no choice but bottled water. i drink more beer than water anyway so...

Drinking tap water here is a guaranteed way of ending up in a hospital, sooner or later, even if you boil it. I can't even use it to cook.

So, yeah, bottled water it is. Either that, or set up my own distillery, which is like spending money to buy my own bottled water company.

When I am in Canada or the US I drink from the tap, though. My relatives are chemists, and they assure me that their tap water meets their standards.

And I has one of these. Tap water->charcoal filter-> ...cleaner tap water i guess? #^# Whatever, it's efficient and cheap.