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isn't bottling spring water bad for the environment?

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Clair de Lune

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i am drinkling a bottled poland spring and it just made me think. the company of this size is drawing millions of gallons of spring water from a source and ships it all over US and internationally. All that water drawn from a concentrated source means there is that much less for the balance of nature of its immediate surrounding. that has to be bad for the environment
 
No it's not. The water gets replenished every day. A spring is nothing more than an underground stream/river and that is nothing more than run off water from snow/ice/rain.

Regardless of what we do the water cycle still continues.
 
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
i am drinkling a bottled poland spring and it just made me think. the company of this size is drawing millions of gallons of spring water from a source and ships it all over US and internationally. All that water drawn from a concentrated source means there is that much less for the balance of nature of its immediate surrounding. that has to be bad for the environment
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Except that it's all just municipal tap water run through a reverse osmosis filter.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
No it's not. The water gets replenished every day. A spring is nothing more than an underground stream/river and that is nothing more than run off water from snow/ice/rain.

Regardless of what we do the water cycle still continues.
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unless you take it out faster than it recharges?



 
Oh no, the water I am drinking is never going to be seen by nature again! Why do humans exist??!?! 🙁
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
i am drinkling a bottled poland spring and it just made me think. the company of this size is drawing millions of gallons of spring water from a source and ships it all over US and internationally. All that water drawn from a concentrated source means there is that much less for the balance of nature of its immediate surrounding. that has to be bad for the environment
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Except that it's all just municipal tap water run through a reverse osmosis filter.
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the Nestle <something> water even reads

Source: Municipal Dallas Water supply.

 
Originally posted by: G Wizard
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
i am drinkling a bottled poland spring and it just made me think. the company of this size is drawing millions of gallons of spring water from a source and ships it all over US and internationally. All that water drawn from a concentrated source means there is that much less for the balance of nature of its immediate surrounding. that has to be bad for the environment
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Except that it's all just municipal tap water run through a reverse osmosis filter.
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the Nestle <something> water even reads

Source: Municipal Dallas Water supply.
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It is easy to figure out real spring water from filtered tap water. Some people are just too dumb to read the label.
 
Originally posted by: G Wizard
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
i am drinkling a bottled poland spring and it just made me think. the company of this size is drawing millions of gallons of spring water from a source and ships it all over US and internationally. All that water drawn from a concentrated source means there is that much less for the balance of nature of its immediate surrounding. that has to be bad for the environment
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Except that it's all just municipal tap water run through a reverse osmosis filter.
Click to expand...

the Nestle <something> water even reads

Source: Municipal Dallas Water supply.
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Poland Spring (owned by Nestle Waters) actually uses spring water. They mention the source springs on the bottle, which I beleive they are legally required to do since they are claiming to be spring water.
 
Originally posted by: Crono
Bottling and transportation, yes. The water itself is recycled.
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Yup, bottled water is horribly bad for the environment, mainly because it has to be put in a bottle, which requires transportation, the bottle requires manufacturing, the finished product requires storage and transporting, and then finally when you're done with it, the bottle needs to be disposed of.
 
it's the amount of plastic used in the bottling that is more of the problem.

But it is true that the world's drinkable water supply is far from limitless. Just spend a day in India.
 
It is a waste of resources - namely the oil used to produce the plastic and energy required to produce the plastic. It generates a lot of waste to make a totally redundant product that isn't any better than tap water.
 
Unless you're dumping that water outside of the gravitational pull of the planet, it's going to go back into the cycle. Don't worry - it's unregulated municipal water anyway!
 
If anything, it's bad for the environment because of the plastics used to bottle the water, not because you're pulling water out of some area.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
No it's not. The water gets replenished every day. A spring is nothing more than an underground stream/river and that is nothing more than run off water from snow/ice/rain.

Regardless of what we do the water cycle still continues.
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Well, this is true, but not 100% accurate. Some water cycles are regional. Not all watersheds drain back into the ocean or are fed from rainwater originating from oceanic evaporation.
 
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