Pepsi Forced to Admit It's Bottling Tap Water

RolandTD20Kdrummer

lol...I bet some people continue to buy it anyway still thinking it's "better"

"Pepsi is being forced to change the labels on its Aquafina water to admit it is tap water. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, as activists are ramping up campaigns against the water-bottling giants, Coke, Pepsi and Nestle."

http://alternet.org/environment/58604/

godpt3

well, our tap water here recently tested positive for excessive levels of fecal choliform for like the third or fourth time this year. So I'll stick to my bottled water thankyouverymuch.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

godpt3 wrote:

well, our tap water here recently tested positive for excessive levels of fecal choliform for like the third or fourth time this year. So I'll stick to my bottled water thankyouverymuch.

Nothing like drinking fresh poo eh? mmm...

Gotta love that 7000% mark up though.

MLC2006

I don't know how it is around here now, but back in the day, the tap water would turn your teeth more brown than years of smoking and coffee would do. so yeah, I'll still buy bottled water because obviously the bottled tap water ain't as bad as my tapwater. though I buy the 24 pack of bottled water from Sam's which is much cheap than "name brand" water.

I bought some jugged water one time for a fish aquarium because I thought it would be much more pure than my tapwater. turns out that the jugged water had much much more phosphate than my tapwater.

Ahnimus

I'm drinking Dasani, the Canadian version.

inmytree

tap water is bad, mmmmkay...

RolandTD20Kdrummer

If my municipal tap water was 3rd world quality in a 1st world country...I think I would say nothing and agree to shell out huge coin for someone else's tap water.


yup...lol

mca47

You literally cannot drink tap water here in Phoenix/Scottsdale. If you have at least one tastebud in your head you will instantly know why.

Some tap water is good, most is shit IMO.

Even if most bottled water comes from another city's tap water (that has been purified), it still tastes 1000x better then the shit that comes out of my faucet. The tap water here even smells bad!

I have sensitive skin, and if I didn't have a shower filter I would be in agony.
It's bad!

RolandTD20Kdrummer

mca47 wrote:

You literally cannot drink tap water here in Phoenix/Scottsdale. If you have at least one tastebud in your head you will instantly know why.

Some tap water is good, most is shit IMO.

Even if most bottled water comes from another city's tap water (that has been purified), it still tastes 1000x better then the shit that comes out of my faucet. The tap water here even smells bad!

I have sensitive skin, and if I didn't have a shower filter I would be in agony.
It's bad!

Whoa....dis not so good. I've taken some drinks right out the some of the more Northern lakes where I am with no ill effects. I must be lucky.

Get a reverse osmosis system under your sink..they're about $300. Tastes better than any bottled water I've had.

Ahnimus

Sometimes when I turn on the faucet in my bathroom I can smell hyrodgen sulfide.

g under p

Tell me something now that Pepsi and Coca Cola are admitting they use tap water in their "bottled water" and we pay taxes on our public drinking. Are reparations in order for water we've already paid for? Those Rat Bastids!

Peace
Earle

moeaholic

g under p wrote:

Tell me something now that Pepsi and Coca Cola are admitting they use tap water in their "bottled water" and we pay taxes on our public drinking. Are reparations in order for water we've already paid for? Those Rat Bastids!

Peace
Earle

what's with the quotes around bottled water? if it's water, and it's in a bottle, then it's bottled water. doesn't matter if it's tap water or not.

tybird

Ahnimus wrote:

I'm drinking Dasani, the Canadian version.

Glorified Irish Guy

godpt3 wrote:

well, our tap water here recently tested positive for excessive levels of fecal choliform for like the third or fourth time this year. So I'll stick to my bottled water thankyouverymuch.

We found out today we can get diarrheoa and possibly become violently sick from drinkin our tap water, ill gladly drink yours!!! Fuck all this hassle with water im stickin with beer and imported bottled water until we sort out some kind of decent water treatment,
And pepsi are using shit water, bulmers which is a local producers of cider here are using the contaminated water for their drinks, im stayin well clear of brand named drinks for a while, bring on the expensive clean bottled water and cheap imported beer!!

belfast1

those fuckers at coca cola bottle tap water and brand it as deep river rock!!!


deep river wank if you ask me - fuckin cunts

Jeanwah

The water in those bottles you're buying have been tap water for a long time. They are just now forced to state the truth on them because half of the sources stated on the labels didn't exist. For example I found a bottle lable one day that stated the water came from an stagnent area near me. Yeah right! There's no spring water there, let alone mountains! So until now, the companies have gotten away with it.

And where I'm originally from, they have the best tap water ever. That's what you get when you're on the shore of a Great Lake.

Eliot Rosewater

Ahnimus wrote:

I'm drinking Dasani, the Canadian version.

http://killercoke.org/

spiral out

I noticed that Dasani was bottled tap water while in america and canada as it says filtered tap water on the bottle. It made me check all the other brands i was buying to. Aquafina didn't say spring water either.

I have an aversion to tap water, the smell makes me want to gag, so i use a water filter and stick it in the fridge. Much better than wasting money on bottled water.

kenny olav

this is one of those issues on which i am total communist on. instead of letting corporations profit off of the public water supply, is there any reason we shouldn't improve the water supply nationwide, increase the number water fountains available to the public, have convienence stores sell plastic drinking bottles for the minimal price (25 cents?) and increase the amount of public recycling bins for plastic??? we'd save a lot of money and it'll make life cleaner and easier!!!

there's a ton of ways to improve the quality of our lives, but people are too stuck in their ways or lack the will to change things (i'm guilty of the latter).

for starters, let's stop wasting billions (is it a trillion yet?) of dollars on overpriced no-bid contracts to Dick Cheney's corporate buddies, in some inane attempt to magically build up a country still mired in religious fanaticism and tribal warfare --- and use that money to repair our fucking bridges so they don't collapse on us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gabers

MLC2006 wrote:

I don't know how it is around here now, but back in the day, the tap water would turn your teeth more brown than years of smoking and coffee would do. so yeah, I'll still buy bottled water because obviously the bottled tap water ain't as bad as my tapwater. though I buy the 24 pack of bottled water from Sam's which is much cheap than "name brand" water.

I bought some jugged water one time for a fish aquarium because I thought it would be much more pure than my tapwater. turns out that the jugged water had much much more phosphate than my tapwater.

That might be because and high enough levels fluorine will create brown deposits in your teeth. Too much of a good thing.

Mr. Cateeto

I feel fortunate to live where I do, seeing as to how Where I come from near Chicago, the tap water had so much calcium in it that if you took one shower, there'd be deposits on the walls and curtain. You'd feel some kind of residue on your skin that would make it feel very dry.

I live in DeKalb, IL now, and we have some of the cleanest tap water I've ever tasted. It glows a brilliant blue in the bathtub, and tastes very pure.

There are also different grades of bottled water, and I can easily taste the difference. Dasani tastes like ass; I'm positive it's just Lake Michigan tap water; it has that same crusty calcium mineral taste. Same thing with Aquafina; it tastes like they filter it a little more, but still pretty much the same story. Fiji water is interesting. You'd think with all their crazy hippie-centric advertising and claims of "volcanic" water, it'd at least taste good, but still no dice: tastes like Chicago tap water. The best IMO is Ice Mountain.