Thinking About … Bottled Water

Mattowan

In some places unless you have your own filtration system the water is so clorinated that it is undrinkable. the city of Chicago for ins

Mattowan

Chlorinated that is.

Johnjonna

I think most bottled water is over priced and the purchase and consumption of itnis irrational and a blatant example of the excessive consumerism in Americannsociety. I do believe that our water systems are not entirely clean, so I own a Brita filtration pitcher. I am disgusted by the litter and pollution cased by plastic bottles. Clean eater is an incredible privilege,

BienHoaBaby

The older you get, the less tolerant your gut becomes of the unique flora and fawna in the local tap water. When I travel, I don’t drink the local tap water or I will spend at least 2-3 hours staying close to a toilet. I prefer distilled water when I travel but I will drink the reverse osmosis Dasani to avoid intestinal problems. (One can’t drink beer all the time). At home, I drink our tap water (my city is mid-sized and has great tasting H2O)

JBoxxious.

My company provides free bottled water to all employees, however the so called “Mountain Pure” purified drinking water they purchase tastes like straight sewer. Thanks, but no thanks! I don’t mind dropping three dollars on a tasty bottle of Smart Water.

kulmo

It depends in what city you happen to be in , some cities do not have good tasting water.

CC

I live on a mountainside, just below a state park. There is no city or county water piped in here, we depend on individual wells for our household water. Unfiltered, it is thick with minerals and deposits, unfit even for laundry, although plants thrive on it. The filter is a salt filter and the high salt content is not good for consumption or pets and plants, but works fine for normal household use. I buy water in five gallon jugs for consumption and cooking. At my office, the tap water is fine, so variables exist that might make the “purchase” of water desirable.

crazy

I have Brita for most of the water I use but do buy store brand bottled water. A case of 35 bottles will last me more then a month but they are mostly for anyone that stops by to grab if they want.n I also refill the bottles I use several time before I throw them out.nIf you read the bottles it will tell you where the water comes from.nnnPaying a high price for a fancy name on a bottle is stupid. It just like buying any generic product, its put out by the big companies to get the money from the who have lower income and those who are not brand snobs.nnPay more then $1 for a bottle of water? Not in this life time. nI’m CRAZY not stupid.

Kelly

I do drink some pitcher-filtered water from our tap. It still tastes awful, but at least you taste less of the chlorine. I more often buy a 35 pack of water for $3.88 on sale and stock up on good tasting spring water (Not Purified water). I encourage you to look at the ingredients of purified water. They often add sodium. This is something I just don’t understand. We advertise our foods as being low sodium but add it to our water? I do my best not to buy anything that claims to be water but adds something that will make you more thirsty. I also would like to note that I know I’m using too much plastic, but I would also add that I do recycle. That doesn’t make up for it entirely, but you can never make up for it entirely and still be a member of American Society. This computer I’m using is plugged into an electric socket and I don’t know how much of my electric is made from oil. When I need a new computer, I doubt that it will be properly recycled. Welcome to the slow end of the earth.

LMILTONBOWN

Michigan is entirely within the great lakes. 18 per cent of the earth’s H2O. they REALLY DON’T NEED TO BUILD CARS.

Slcraig

When we heard about bottled water for a dollar a bottle, we thought it was a joke. Water is free…water fountains, duh, tap water, duh, glasses of water at grammies or your neighbors or the drugstore or gas station, duh…who would pay for something free…dah..

Attagrrl87

Having just come back from a sustainability conference I’m beyond hating water bottles. I ban them all

Guybert

They add sodium and other minerals for flavor. Pure water, such as distilled tastes flat and boring. Sodium is also used in softeners to help remove calcium and other hard minerals. If you have a water softener at home, you are adding sodium, that’s why it’s not good for plants. It also doesn’t make very good coffee or tea IMHO.nWe have great water where I live, but sometimes when traveling the water is bad, or is so different that it isn’t pleasant to drink, so I’ll buy water if I’m thirsty.nI WOULD buy Bling if it came with the decanter in the add! (But my wife would probably shove the bottle up my a**!)n

Guybert

Most of your electricity comes from coal, very little from oil.