Is Bottled Water A Scam?

[grinningghost]

Sometimes - I think it is.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Yea, you think so until you taste our water here.

 

[FreshTressa]

Yes...and the resources required to manufacture and dispose of the bottles is terrible for the environment.

 

[Honu]

Yes...and the resources required to manufacture and dispose of the bottles is terrible for the environment.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I think it is great to keep in the car and around the house...just in case.

But I don't drink it on a regular basis. Once they've been in the fridge and chilled, I don't taste any difference.

 

[PhotobearSam]

We buy the large 18 litre jugs and put some in the fridge to have some cold. We only drink water at home and we have sulfur in our water and it tastes awful.

We buy water instead of soda when traveling but that ends up being the same as they both are bottled. Right?

 

[Cindyluwho]

You do realize that Evian is just naive spelled backwards???

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

Yes, but the water where I go to school... Ick. People got sick from it a few weeks ago. It's fixed now, so they say, but knowing that turned me off of their water. At home I drink water that isn't in bottles though.

 

[KikiFan]

I can't stand the water where I live, but my enviromental side hates the extra trash of bottled water. So I've got a couple of big jugs that I haul to Wholefoods and refill for home use. Yes, I realize that it's still city water, but that extra filtration makes a big difference to the taste. And it only costs .30 a gallon.

 

[briar_rose_59]

You do realize that Evian is just naive spelled backwards???

LOL! That's what my parents always used to tell me! I still like my evian once in a while though...

 

[Snow_White]

Scam? No, just convenient. Is it plain old water? Yup.

 

[Mysteria]

Yea, you think so until you taste our water here.

Or until you smell the water here! I've always drank tap water. Toronto, New York, other places I've lived most of you won't know. It smells and tastes horrible where I live now. Water is my favourite thing to drink outside of wine. I drink about 8 bottles a day. It has to taste good to me.

Myst

 

[minkydog]

The thing I like about bottled water is my kids will drink it instead of soda. I think they just like the feel of the bottle in their hand. They don't like tap water, but they'll drink bottled water like there's no tomorrow so I buy bottle water.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Or until you smell the water here! I've always drank tap water. Toronto, New York, other places I've lived most of you won't know. It smells and tastes horrible where I live now. Water is my favourite thing to drink outside of wine. I drink about 8 bottles a day. It has to taste good to me.

Myst

yeah, you don't wanna be drinking tap water around here, either.

 

[Mysteria]

The thing I like about bottled water is my kids will drink it instead of soda. I think they just like the feel of the bottle in their hand. They don't like tap water, but they'll drink bottled water like there's no tomorrow so I buy bottle water.

If that's what it takes to get your kids to drink water then more power to bottled water! I've always loved water. After being outside for awhile as a kid everyone else who come in would say pop, pop, pop please (or soda, soda, soda) I'd say water please.

Myst

 

[SandraVB79]

I need my daily bottles of water, but it's carbonated water, so you don't have that in tap-version.
Also, the tap water here in Brussels tastes like swimming pool water, yuck!

It depends on where you live. When on vacation in Austria, we love to drink the tap water, it's so pure! But when I was in Florida last year, I even brushed my teeth with bottled water, the tap water smelled like swamp, yuck yuck yuck! It was already bad enough I had to wash my hair with that!

 

[Wishing on a star]

Can it be a scam? Yes

Is it way overpriced? Yes!

Do I drink it.... YES exclusively!!!

Anything to avoid the fluoride and aluminum that that is added to our tap water. (not to mention the chlorine)

But, it is true that all bottled waters are not created equal.
It pays to know what brand you are buying and what you are actually drinking.

 

[cardaway]

We're lucky to live in a place that supplies much of the bottled water for the country. So if it is tap water, it might be ours.

If we lived in the WDW area we would always drink bottled. The local tap stuff is nasty.

 

[Geoff_M]

Yes... The "Bottled Water Dependent" amuse me.

 

[pumba]

We buy four gallons of spring water a week for our dog.........YES OUR DOG gets it and I drink diet pepsi caffeine free or tap water......

Our first dalmatian died of cancer and this is our way of making sure our baby gets nothing but good stuff....The stuff they put in our water system is disgusting ....supposedly not bad for us but not taking any chances for our dog..
SOoooooooo Poland Spring water for our baby