Pepsi Forced to Admit It's Bottling Tap Water

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.

mca47

CorporateWhore wrote:

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

Ideally that would be the easiest and cheapest method, but the water still tastes bad using those two methods.
I've tried both and am not impressed.
I guess if you have decent tap water to begin with it would be ok, but the water here needs some serious help. haha!

Pacomc79

mca47 wrote:

Ideally that would be the easiest and cheapest method, but the water still tastes bad using those two methods.
I've tried both and am not impressed.
I guess if you have decent tap water to begin with it would be ok, but the water here needs some serious help. haha!

sounds like they aren't adding the right minerals at the local plant for good taste.

soulsinging

buy fiji... that shit is like magic water. i cant get enough.

gue_barium

Don't buy water.

Fuck.

Mr. Cateeto

soulsinging wrote:

buy fiji... that shit is like magic water. i cant get enough.

Really?? It tastes like Lake Michigan water to me.