[eastbay]

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis ... led-water/

I NEVER pay for bottles water. I have a friend who guzzles Desani water all day, every day. A couple of bucks or more each day. Maybe a grand per year. Even when you're in a country with sub-standard tap water, the bottled water may be no better.

I'm also not one bit surprised that (possibly) the two most popular bottled waters sold are simply tap water. Silly people and the sillier things they waste money on and the even sillier still crazy myths they fall for.

[Kristen]

Yeah, bottled water is a joke. You're better off just buying a filter that attaches to faucet of your sink. Also I do recommend drinking tap water occasionally, not just for your daily dose of prozac and various hormones, but for the floride which helps strengthen your teeth against bone loss. Water treatment facilities have been adding it for years. Here are some more myths that aren't true.

1. Diet soda is less harmful
2. Cutting carbs is a good weight loss mechanism
3. The swine flu is a dangerous threat to humanity
4. Iraq is a threat to our freedom
5. Educational television (for kids) actually teaches them something useful

[Pretorian]

what if there is a difference in taste?

[AgentR]

Posting a reply to the suggested straw-man argument about why people choose bottled water and are willing to pay for it.

They are buying the container. Plain and simple convenience. They reach in the fridge, grab the resealable bottle, drink as they go, throw away the container.

Now, it is entirely possible to buy a refillable canteen of some sort, fill it with tap water and carry it with you and never spend anything of note on drinks. However.. the container requires washing and carrying back to the home when empty; which defeats the real value the bottled water industry sells.

Just wait and watch.. eventually the "we hate bottled water" crowd will manage to eliminate the thousands of plastic half liter bottles filled with tap water in the grocery store... only to be replaced with thousands of plastic half liter bottles filled with tap water and a half cent worth of flavoring, labeled "crystal beverage" or something stupid like that.

All these people really want to buy is a non carbonated drink in a disposable bottle. Labeling silliness is just another form of social posturing.

[Kristen]

If you enjoy the taste then I guess I could see purchasing it. Also I'm not trying to eliminate bottled water, I just don't like false advertising. just remember to recycle!

[vision-master]

I get most of my drinking water from a State fish (spring) hatchery about 150 miles North of here. The water is so good that some company wanted to put in a bottling plant, the State said NO.I'm not kidding, the water tastes like wine, you can jump in and stay drunk all the time.

[vision-master]

Don't Drink The Water

[vision-master]

On the rocks (made with my spring water) out of a $30 Italian wine glass with a shot of good liquor on the side and some fine pipe tobaccy to highlight the palette..............

Hum, it's about that time.

Suckas.

[eastbay]

I wonder if those who drink bottled water are also more likely to support stupid wars.

[AgentR]

But how is war for oil to support bottled water any different than war for oil to support bottled soda??

[Blacksmith]

Why drink water when there's beer.

[dinopello]

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On the rocks (made with my spring water) out of a $30 Italian wine glass with a shot of good liquor on the side and some fine pipe tobaccy to highlight the palette..............

Hum, it's about that time.

Suckas.

[frankthetank]

I like Coors.

[Kristen]

Beer is good, in recreation, but if I substituted it for water, I'd totally baloon out.

[eastbay]

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[dinopello]

I met a woman (a pretty cute pilot) last year and we initially clicked when we talked about our dogs, and then she mentioned that her dogs (Huskies) only got bottled water to drink. I am not kidding.

[Pretorian]

Have you guys tried this



its a REALLY good water. What can be better than this REALLY good water that comes from a place like this



in a nice glass bottle? Certainly not tap.

[lper100km]

There are many instances where analysis of drinking water from municipal sources has proven them to be safer than bottled water.

Do any of these people who drink bottled thinking it to be ‘green’ are even aware of the additional monetary and energy costs involved in bringing it to the table? Especially when all you have to do is to turn on the tap? There's a bit of a backlash going on locally at the moment, not because of the water per se, but because the cheaper, mass bottlers use hardened plastic containers which include bisphenol A, a known carcinogenic. (If you read about all the food items packed or canned in containers that are 'contaminated' with BPA, you might be forgiven for thinking that there is a mighty conspiracy afoot to poison us all under the guise of food safety and convenience.) Also, because the discarded bottles are contributing to a garbage disposal problem.

We seldom, if ever, buy bottled water except as a party thing when we know someone is going to ask for it. (Because it’s a social one-up-manship thing to do, both to drink and to have it available!). Our supply is from interlinked coastal mountain dammed reservoirs. At home, we do filter, boil and refrigerate water for drinking on a regular basis simply because it improves the taste tremendously and further reduces whatever dangers might remain from beaver or bear pee or drowned skunk that were not removed by heavy chlorination or UV radiation. If we need to take water with us, we use double walled stainless steel bottles. We started this in the days before 'going green' was even thought of. It just seemed to make sense and is now an ingrained habit.

[Jotapay]

I'd like to build a distillation rig or else condense water from the air. There is a company selling atmospheric condensers called Ecolo-Blue that I've been looking at.

http://www.ecoloblue.com/