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.

MrBrian

is'nt it the same as Coca colas 'Dasani'? It's highly filtered water. Its not a big deal that it's not spring water. As long as thet don't claim it to be anything other than what it really is. also most? filtered water is pretty clean, spings don't mean super clean.

Milestone

I put a PUR filter on my tap. I'm satisfied with that.

Mr. Cateeto

I don't care where the water comes from; it could be from the Rivera de Echeguerray in Mexico City, but as long as it's filtered properly and tastes good, I'll drink it. Ice Mountain is the best of the "cheap" brands of bottled water. (As opposed to the "premium" bottled waters, which are just marketing gimmicks aimed at yuppies.)

I'm tired of being told by both water companies and environmental websites which tastes better, and I'm astounded that people can't tell the differences between them. I drink my tap water here in De Kalb and it tastes awesome, but if I'm somewhere where I know the water is horrible, I will buy bottled water in a heartbeat. It's all about your taste buds, they will never steer you wrong.

My question about the water racket is this: If there are such stringent standards and EPA regulations about municipal water supplies, as the environmentalists claim, then why is it that I know of a few places whose municipal water supplies smell strongly of hydrogen sulfide and have more rust than a Chevy Vega? I can't imagine H2S (a poison) and rust are exactly healthy.

Have any of you seen the episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit where they stomped the asses of rich people in an upscale restaurant who were supposedly ordering specialty waters from a "water steward"? Well it would take too long to explain... just watch:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc

catefrances

LMFAO!!! did you know evian is naive spelt backwards? those french surely have a sense of humour. just about sums up the whole thing for me.

mca47

MrBrian wrote:

is'nt it the same as Coca colas 'Dasani'? It's highly filtered water. Its not a big deal that it's not spring water. As long as thet don't claim it to be anything other than what it really is. also most? filtered water is pretty clean, spings don't mean super clean.

I think most people knew that Aquafina and others came from municipal sources. They don't claim to be "spring water", they claim to have good purification systems.
Yeah, your local water company treats and "purifies" their water too but the water that comes out of my faucet tastes like ass so I will continue to buy bottled.
Yeah, it costs more but my tastebuds thank me every day.

A few years back I read a story about children and the amount of water they drink. Turns out that kids that drink and only have access to tap water drink about 1/10 the total volume of water vs. a kid who either a) has a water service or b) drinks bottled water. The kids that only have access to tap water in their homes were asked why they don't drink it and they said they didn't like the taste and preferred to drink soft drinks and other artificially flavored and sweetened drinks instead.
Obesity in America stems from many sources...

Water should taste like water = nothing.
I like a tall glass OR BOTTLE of ice cold nothing-flavored liquid.

MrBrian

mca47 wrote:

I think most people knew that Aquafina and others came from municipal sources. They don't claim to be "spring water", they claim to have good purification systems.
Yeah, your local water company treats and "purifies" their water too but the water that comes out of my faucet tastes like ass so I will continue to buy bottled.
Yeah, it costs more but my tastebuds thank me every day.

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I'm in Florida, our tap water is/also old toilet water that has been "cleaned". haha! So I also avoid it, I only drink bottled. But i'm saying that many many people didnt know those facts about dasani and aquafinia.

mca47

MrBrian wrote:

I'm in Florida, our tap water is/also old toilet water that has been "cleaned". haha! So I also avoid it, I only drink bottled. But i'm saying that many many people didnt know those facts about dasani and aquafinia.

I'm sure there are a lot of people that didn't know Aquafina and Dasani came from a municipal source, but what I want to know is...where did they think it came from? I mean, neither (to my knowledge) claimed to come from any source or be some sort of magic water. lol!

tybird

MrBrian wrote:

I'm in Florida, our tap water is/also old toilet water that has been "cleaned". haha! So I also avoid it, I only drink bottled. But i'm saying that many many people didnt know those facts about dasani and aquafinia.

After many vacations to the Sunshine state over the years, yes, their tap water is the pits. :(

CorporateWhore

Save your money on the bottled water and buy a Brita or Pur filter.

Songburst

Isn't all bottled water tap water? I mean they don't go down to the lake, dunk a bottle in, cap it and ship it right? It has to be filtered and probably chlorinated before it is consumable. Where I live, our tap water is so clean that it is down right idiotic that people buy bottled water, but back in my grocery store days, we sold it by the truckload. I always have the image of some dirty Frenchman holding a hose filling Evian bottles up and I laugh my ass off when people proclaim Evian as the be-all and end-all of water. I mean paying $3 for a fucking liter of water is completely insane.