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If you live somewhere where you get clean tap water then it is a really stupid thing to do. There is
little difference in quality, it's a scam and the environmental effect of the production of the
plastic bottles is scandalous. |
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It is pretty crazy but in some parts they buy bottled water because the tap water isn't fit for
consumption. It is pretty stupid buying botled water though. I went to a restaraunt once and my
friend said 'can we have some TAP water please' and we laughed at him, but he saved us quite a bit.
Good for him |
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Yea, it's the same thing, why pay $1.50 or something for something you can get free out your tap? |
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Bottled water? It has the same taste with the tap water. So, there's nothing special in it. Why
people had to buy them for drinking. Didn't your home boiled any water & fill it in your own bottle
& bring it out. Besides, buying a bottled water is wasting money. |
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Not only is it no better than tap water and more expensive it is ridiculously bad for the
environment. I have lost count of the times people whinge about carbon footprints and then buy
Evian or Volvic. They are creating waste with the plastic bottle, and the fuel used to package and
transport the water around the world is so unnecessary. |
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Bottled water. Tap water. It is all the same. People who have extra money to spend or don't want to
take the time to fill up a bottle at home pay these prices for WATER. There is nothing special about
bottled water. In fact, the water that comes from the tap is probably better for you. It is also
better for the environment to drink from your tap. |
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While granting exceptions for those not living in industrialised countries, and those struck by a
sudden thirst while out for a walk, I think buying bottled water in general is certainly stupid.
Successive studies have shown that it is no better than tap water. In many cases, it literally is
tap water. I suppose it's a great triumph of marketing to get people to pay a premium price for
something they can have for almost free out of the tap. Ridiculous slogans and marketing strategies
are applied to this very ordinary water. It is called "iceberg water" or water from the Antarctic or
other various supposedly extremely pure places. In reality, of course, it is straight out of the tap
most of the time.
In some ways, this is very comical. But it becomes less so when you think that people elsewhere in
the world would love to have purified water on tap as we do in the West; and that significant
resources, including energy resources which contribute to global warming, are expended in the whole
process of marketing and bottling up what's already readily available. I'm tempted to call for a ban
on bottled water even, but my libertarian impulses restrain me. |
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I agree. I think the prices are just ouyrages anyways, and most of the water is not tap water, and
if you ever do reaserach on what they actually put in the water to keep it "fresh", ........ Its not
that thirst quenching |
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Water from a tap undergoes much stricter controls than bottled water. Then again Evian is naive
backwards, so I guess that is who it is aimed at lol |
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It is very stupid. There is no difference in bottled water and tap water. People are stupid. Tap
water goes through a water treatment plant before it gets to your tap. So chances are that your tap
water may actually be a little cleaner than bottled water. But overall, there is no difference. We
all drank tap water as kids and no one died from it. It sustained our healthy life as it should
have. People are crazy to go out here and pay a freaking dollar or more for a bottle of water, when
they can get the same thing from any tap. |
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In some places where water isn't polluted it is, but in other countries some of the water has been
known to be polluted, so therefore its better than being poisoned. Buy the water. |
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What if you are on the go |
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Its not stupid.. Id rather drink bottled water then drink it out the tap..even though it costs money
to buy bottled water... I think it tastes nicer :P |
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It depends on the brand and on the client's motivation for purchasing the product. Some bottled
waters do, indeed, come from the tap. I remember that a few years ago, Dasani bottles sold in Canada
(for $1.50 from dispensers) had a little disclaimer on the label about how the product originated
from the public water source of Calgary. In general, people should avoid buying bottled water
packaged by either Pepsi or Coca Cola.
The only exception in the western world to buying bottled water is if it's actually natural mineral
water, and not just filtered tap or spring water. I don't drink carbonated mineral water because I
am fearful of the quality of that which comes from the tap, but simply because I enjoy it as a
beverage. It's really a personal choice; while others buy bottles of Pepsi, Coke, Sprite and Fanta,
I stick to fizzy mineral water. Unlike North Americans, continental Europeans enjoy these in great
abundance and if you travel a little east of France, you will find them to be very well priced and
just as good quality as if you were to pick up a Perrier. |
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It's stupid IF you live in an area with relatively safe water. But far more public drinking water
supplies are polluted than people are aware. Plus there are other areas where you have logical
reasons not to trust the tap water. Boston is the only major city with absolutely no filter
whatsoever on its water, plus it passes through many extremely old pipes made of who knows what. Is
it probably safe, yes. But you really don't know... And that's just one example. |
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I don't think so. If your out and about and want a drink, a bottle of mineral water is always
cheaper, more thirst quenching and healthier than a bottle of fizzy drink.
But i do think its stupid to buy bottled water in bulk for use in the home. In the UK at least we
have a fantastic clean, cheap water supply pumped straight into our homes and anyone who doesn't
make use of it is just being a snob (or unhealthily paranoid sometimes). |
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30 Jun 2008 19:50
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