Bottled water losing popularity. (38)
I could never understand why to buy water either, although on a journey to JKT Indonesia once I had to buy it do to the place had pretty rude water
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SatelliteServer: I could never understand why to buy water either, although on a journey to JKT Indonesia once I had to buy it do to the place had pretty rude water
Yeah I guess in that case I would have to "spring" (get it?) for a bottle of water. I wouldn't want to consume somebodies nasties.------ This thread is Archived ------
I don't buy bottled water very much,but when I do I buy Smartwater.I don't think it's made me much smarter though 
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ooby_dooby: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34451973/ns/business-going_green/
I realize I'm a little old fashioned but the idea of buying water is very alien to me. When 3/4 of the earths surface is covered with water why would anybody actually spend money to buy water when it comes right out of the tap virtually for free?
I buy soda (some call it pop which doesn't make much sense either) but at least sodapop, ok you Effing happy now? has been flavored and sweetened and carbonated so it's much nicer than drinking plain old water. Besides soda goes a lot better with a cheesburger.
“In some ways, bottled water has become the SUV of the ecological movement,”
I realize I'm a little old fashioned but the idea of buying water is very alien to me. When 3/4 of the earths surface is covered with water why would anybody actually spend money to buy water when it comes right out of the tap virtually for free?
I buy soda (some call it pop which doesn't make much sense either) but at least sodapop, ok you Effing happy now? has been flavored and sweetened and carbonated so it's much nicer than drinking plain old water. Besides soda goes a lot better with a cheesburger.
“In some ways, bottled water has become the SUV of the ecological movement,”
I just drink tap water and carry around a water bottle with me. Not that I mind paying for water, but do we really need to add the plastic to our landfills?
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When i get a hankering for something clear and pure, vodka does the trick for me. 
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Desertguy49: When i get a hankering for something clear and pure, vodka does the trick for me.
Now that sounds like a good idea. That would certainly save adding to the landfill.
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At one of the apartments I was living at the water pipes rusted (or at least I assume they did) because the water was coming out a brownish orange...
So, I bought water bottles 
But, not all the time, there was also a well that was accessible by car, so when I could take a car with someone, I filled up bottles of waters from the well (it was free, clean, and good). 
So, I bought water bottles But, not all the time, there was also a well that was accessible by car, so when I could take a car with someone, I filled up bottles of waters from the well (it was free, clean, and good). ------ This thread is Archived ------
ooby_dooby: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34451973/ns/business-going_green/
I realize I'm a little old fashioned but the idea of buying water is very alien to me. When 3/4 of the earths surface is covered with water why would anybody actually spend money to buy water when it comes right out of the tap virtually for free?
I buy soda (some call it pop which doesn't make much sense either) but at least sodapop, ok you Effing happy now? has been flavored and sweetened and carbonated so it's much nicer than drinking plain old water. Besides soda goes a lot better with a cheesburger.
“In some ways, bottled water has become the SUV of the ecological movement,”
I realize I'm a little old fashioned but the idea of buying water is very alien to me. When 3/4 of the earths surface is covered with water why would anybody actually spend money to buy water when it comes right out of the tap virtually for free?
I buy soda (some call it pop which doesn't make much sense either) but at least sodapop, ok you Effing happy now? has been flavored and sweetened and carbonated so it's much nicer than drinking plain old water. Besides soda goes a lot better with a cheesburger.
“In some ways, bottled water has become the SUV of the ecological movement,”
In Canada and the US where tap water is purified and safe, buying bottled water is a waste of money and idiocy. Watch Penn & Teller's "Bullsh**!" about bottled water, how they tricked people into talking about tap water as being cleaner and tastier than tap water simply by claiming it was bottled.
In other countries, tap water is "grey water" and should not be drunk. In Daegu, South Korea, several people died of cholera in the water, in a supposedly industrialized, first world country. (That happened a year before the subway fire in Daegu that killed 200 people. Small wonder people forget the three deaths.)
Here in Taiwan, a water purifier in the home is a necessity, or you buy it from distributors. Only the poor will drink tap water, even though it's supposed to be safe. For a long time, it wasn't.
I've also lived in the Philippines for a few months and it's the same story: only the poor drink from taps. I've encountered "bottled water" - produced by companies - that had mosquito larvae in it.
I am seriously thinking of investing in one or two "Lifesaver bottles" for emergencies. I won't include a link since plugging products isn't allowed, but you can easily search for and find it yourself.
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I have heard (make that "read online") that chemicals that leech out of transparent plastic containers, like bottled water, cause cancer.
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Water in developed countries is not safe even if it is supposedly purified.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
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Odysseus101: I have heard (make that "read online") that chemicals that leech out of transparent plastic containers, like bottled water, cause cancer.
This is true, if you are sensitive to it.
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So what are you suggesting as a solution? Should one DISTILL your drinking water at home??
gingerb: Water in developed countries is not safe even if it is supposedly purified.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
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we have an acceptable amount of a poison in the tape water
WTF???
so i bay water(no one tested the bottled water... or at least the real studies about it are not presented in public)
WTF???
so i bay water(no one tested the bottled water... or at least the real studies about it are not presented in public)
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I've always wondered myself how bottled water is "safe" for the environment when its production contributes to pollution from the moment it is pumped from the ground.
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I catch rain water for my chickens and I find that dogs and cats absolutely love it over tap water. All my chickens get is rain water exclusively. I also find it is really great for washing your hair. It leaves it very soft.
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gingerb: Water in developed countries is not safe even if it is supposedly purified.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
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gingerb: Water in developed countries is not safe even if it is supposedly purified.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
I did research on this for college and I found that things like turpentine, white spirits, paint chemicals, and other industrial chemicals don't break down in landfills, or when dumped, and end up in the water table.
Purification doesn't get rid of them then, and they arrive in your tap water source ready for drinking.
Same thing for bottled water. Sources for bottled water are wells, where the water has been filtered from the water table too, and it is also contaminated with chemicals that can't be broken down.
So, whether the water is filtered, bottled, or not, it makes no difference to its content.
All water, worldwide, is now contaminated.
I didnt' know that all water was contaminated. I drink 8 to 12 cups a day of tap water every day. Never been sick though so must be very little contamination or my body has just gotten used to it.
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navygirl1: I didnt' know that all water was contaminated. I drink 8 to 12 cups a day of tap water every day. Never been sick though so must be very little contamination or my body has just gotten used to it.
I don't pay any attention to all the scare hype that goes around these days, the natural well water we have out here reportedly has traces of naturally occurring arsenic in it, but I've drank it for 20 years and it hasn't killed me yet. So if I drink the 10,000 year old natural groundwater from the aquifers I,m getting arsenic poisoning, or if I drink bottled water I'm going to get bacterial contamination, same as has been reported with the city water down in Phoenix in the past.
Maybe I'd better just stick with the Vodka
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I realize I'm a little old fashioned but the idea of buying water is very alien to me. When 3/4 of the earths surface is covered with water why would anybody actually spend money to buy water when it comes right out of the tap virtually for free?
I buy soda (some call it pop which doesn't make much sense either) but at least sodapop, ok you Effing happy now? has been flavored and sweetened and carbonated so it's much nicer than drinking plain old water. Besides soda goes a lot better with a cheesburger.
“In some ways, bottled water has become the SUV of the ecological movement,”