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Watch the documentary 'Tapped' on Netflix to see why bottle water is a scam for lazy suckers
to lazy to watch factural documentaries.
summarize plz
Midwayman
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I have a couple cases on hand for emergencies, and we use it when we leave the house. (reusable sports bottles are a hassle vs just grabbing a bottle). We filter all out drinking water for home use ourselves. Can't drink straight tap. Tastes weird.
Mixolydian
Lifer
The off taste to me comes from the ozone they put in the bottles at time of filling...
Bottled water is one of the biggest scams that exists. City water run though the same type of filtration equipment that most have in their home anyway. Your wasting your money and putting more garbage in the landfill.
Bottled water is one of the biggest scams that exists. City water run though the same type of filtration equipment that most have in their home anyway. Your wasting your money and putting more garbage in the landfill.
mvbighead
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Lol. I have had city water in numerous places. Sometimes, it can be good, and sometimes it can be very bad. I have well water. While the taste is fine, it does have visible particles that may be disturbing to someone who isn't used to that sort of thing. My parents have the same thing with their well water.
I have numerous water filters (including a whole house filter, a sink filter, and a filter on the fridge), and still certain particulates get through (perhaps in the icemaker which is also filtered). In any case, Costco bottled water is $0.10 a bottle. Pretty sure I can eat $0.10 every now and again if I feel the need.
And the biggest waste of money are the bottled sodas from convenience stores. $1.75 for 20oz soda? Really? If you consider a $0.10 bottle of water a waste of money... I just don't know what to say. If I am going out and about, I can throw a cooler of 6 bottle of water with some ice and have a cool refreshment throughout the day without spending $2 on a soda in some cases. $0.60 for 6 bottles of water or $2 for a bottle of soda? What's the waste again?
shortylickens
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Doppel
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You honestly are fucking retarded. It is no wonder you can't make a thread without people getting off topic and calling you out on your mental delays.
I just drink out of the tap.
Less than a cent and just as healthy and tasty, plus much better for the environment.
Plus one....
I put a NICE in line filter in my "Fridge" water line... NO ISSUES.
SheHateMe
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I don't understand why people support the bottled water industry. Conglomerates like Nestle have been abusing our natural resources for a long time. Drying up natural bodies of water and causing droughts is all something bottled water drinkers support. Not only that...but the fact that millions of those empty bottles ends up in a landfill, or discarded into the streets or into water bodies.
Don't forget the dangerous chemicals that are used to produce some of these bottles.
You aren't drinking anything that we don't get from our Tap. Purified water is the same water from your sink.
Stop being lazy and buy a re-usable, eco-friendly Aluminum water container.... and a Brita Filter.
Don't forget the dangerous chemicals that are used to produce some of these bottles.
You aren't drinking anything that we don't get from our Tap. Purified water is the same water from your sink.
Stop being lazy and buy a re-usable, eco-friendly Aluminum water container.... and a Brita Filter.
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NFS4
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I always chew out my wife for wanting bottled water. Makes no sense to me. We have a fridge that has one of the PUR water filter thingamabobs on it -- they're like $20 a pop I think and last about 6 months.
All she needs to do is take one of the nalgene bottles in the closet and fill it up. But noooooooooooo, she wants to spend money on bottled water. Such a waste!
All she needs to do is take one of the nalgene bottles in the closet and fill it up. But noooooooooooo, she wants to spend money on bottled water. Such a waste!
Mixolydian
Lifer
At home, I drink tap water as long as it's filtered. Drinking water straight from the tap (no filter) tastes awful. But for work I bring plastic water bottles. No recycling there either, so that's a double-whammy.
SheHateMe
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You should allow her to have bottled water, but make sure you keep the empty bottles. Let them build up in a closet or something....and then, when there are tons of them, open the closet and let them spill out. Leave them there, and then show her how much waste she accumulated!
At home, I drink tap water as long as it's filtered. Drinking water straight from the tap (no filter) tastes awful. But for work I bring plastic water bottles. No recycling there either, so that's a double-whammy.
That's sad. In the bay area we have great, delicious tap water.
Water is run though a green sand filter typically. Something similar to most pool filters.
Your bottle costs .10 cents a piece of which the water company is making .099 cents on. Given the state of the equipment in those facilities, the automation, lack of people and speed of the line, it really is an incredible how start of the art it is, mostly because they make so much money... (BTW, I work in the industry and am around the equipment and in facilities all over the country...
I could tell you how much it costs to make that product... But well, you probably would not believe me... Sugar water is expensive ya know..
Your bottle costs .10 cents a piece of which the water company is making .099 cents on. Given the state of the equipment in those facilities, the automation, lack of people and speed of the line, it really is an incredible how start of the art it is, mostly because they make so much money... (BTW, I work in the industry and am around the equipment and in facilities all over the country...
I could tell you how much it costs to make that product... But well, you probably would not believe me... Sugar water is expensive ya know..
Mixolydian
Lifer
My water comes from Lake Michigan, which is excellent - but there's something about drinking water from the tap that makes it taste weird.
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Geosurface
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Never apologize for being born in the first world, never feel the slightest ounce of guilt about it. Revel in it and take pride.
Indulge, and laugh mightily as you eat delicious, expensive ice cream in a car with heated seats in the winter...
Get the largest flat screen TV you can afford, then return it and get an even bigger one you can't afford.
Buy a bunch of movies and books and then never get around to watching/reading them.
Enjoy yourself, and give no thought to others.
It would be like beating yourself up for being born a human rather than a mouse, and fretting all the time about how bad mice have it... and how things eat them. Or like spending all of your time agonizing over the infinite planets with intelligent life which have probably died off completely, or the fact that right now somewhere out in the universe there must be an infinite number of aliens being brutally tortured, killed, and enslaved.
Just be glad and grateful you are what you are, when you are, where you are. Your caveman ancestors worked their asses off so you could sit on yours. This was the moment they dreamed of creating for their descendants. Honor their efforts by basking in it.
WaTaGuMp
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Geosurface
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I drink bottled water because it tastes better than tap, and because I believe I can have a reasonable expectation that it has, indeed, been purified in some meaningful way. Even if they start out with tap water, they're obviously putting it through some sort of process to remove contaminants and this pleases me.
Just as important if not more so, is the fact that I drink far more water (and therefore less soda, etc) when I buy bottled. Something about the individualized, self-contained and reliable portion of the bottles encourages me to drink them more...
Going to the sink and just filling a glass with tap water has never felt like a natural experience to me. That's a fault of my own and I wish I wasn't that way, but there you have it.
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