Bottled Water

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    when getting a refill u can also ask the pharmacist to reuse the old bottle as long as it's the same drug.


    Yea?
    Good idea.
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    chadwick wrote:
    Yea?
    Good idea.
    sorry i miss lead u....hubby says state law prohibits reusing same bottle.
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    damn double post...oops.
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  • HuntingtonBeachNick
    HuntingtonBeachNick Posts: 80
    ...and don't forget hose water for some strange reason tastes really good...
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  • NOCODE#1
    NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    some of us have more advanced tastes

    fiji and evian and ty nant do taste better and are worth it.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    I installed one of these under my sink. The best water I've ever tasted, including bottled water.

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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    there is also the issue of leaching ... generally bottled water comes in really cheap plastic ... that's why they break down so fast ... as it breaks down - there are chemicals that end up in the water ...

    the other sad part is that i think some 20/20 report indicated like 70% of the bottles end up in landfills ... people aren't even recycling them ...
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    he still stands wrote:
    stop drinking it!!! You have FREE water coming out of your tap (or at least cheap water). It has to be tested quarterly or monthly. The US has the best and safest supply of drinking water ANYWHERE. If you drink Aquafina or Dasani (Pepsi and Coke products) you are drinking FUCKING TAP WATER ANYWAY!!!!!! Do you realize how much oil it takes to 1) make the plastic bottle (only 25% are eventually recycled) and 2) transport the water to the store??? It is WASTE!!!

    I guess its okay if you're traveling or at a concert or something, but if you're in your own home.... WTF??? I just don't get it. If you're for a healthy planet, then don't be a hypocrite.

    Sorry for the rant.
    Here in the UK, tap water varies from place to place. at my home it comes out opaque white... therefore I drink bottled water.

    incidentally, they stopped selling Dasani here when someone found out that they were bottlng straight from the tap.
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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Here in the UK, tap water varies from place to place. at my home it comes out opaque white... therefore I drink bottled water.

    incidentally, they stopped selling Dasani here when someone found out that they were bottlng straight from the tap.

    dasani is coca cola ... just goes to show how some big corporations are really only interested in screwing over everyone ...
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Rushlimbo wrote:
    Tap water is full of flouride which is not good for your body.

    http://www.wholywater.com/fluoride.html

    http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/shamesfluoride.htm

    http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/2007/06/29/adding-fluoride-to-water-supplies-bad-for-our-teeth/

    http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/water-filtration-systems.htm
    So go outside and drink from the ditch if its that bad.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    I live in the Phoenix area where we have shit for tap water.
    I have a water service that comes and replaces the giant jugs.

    I understand that people purchasing huge packs of 12 oz bottles is dumb, but I will never drink that shit tap water EVER.

    Where I used to live had awesome water and I had no problem drinking that...just can't do it here.
  • he still stands
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    NOCODE#1 wrote:
    some of us have more advanced tastes

    fiji and evian and ty nant do taste better and are worth it.

    worth it how? it provides enough utility for you to consume unneccearily? Isn't it obvious by now that humans need to change their habits in order to stop fucking up the world?
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    he still stands wrote:
    worth it how? it provides enough utility for you to consume unneccearily? Isn't it obvious by now that humans need to change their habits in order to stop fucking up the world?

    I think he meant "those brands" vs. tap.
    Just because you have decent tap water means we all do.
    It is some of the absolute worst here in the Phoenix area.
    I've only been to a couple of places where I can say "wow, that's good tap water!" There are means to obtain pure, great tasting water (with no added shit to it) without using an insane amount of energy and biofuels. I'm glad you guys like your pitcher filters because even that can't cut it for me.
    I have a water guy who recycles my multi-gallon jugs every week and it's great. Sure it uses more energy then turning on the faucet but there are ways to make cuts in other areas...which I do.

    Sorry, I like me some good water.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/240391

    NEW YORK–PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

    According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world's No. 2 beverage company will include the words "Public Water Source" on Aquafina labels.

    "If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do," said Michelle Naughton, a Pepsi-Cola North America spokesperson.

    Pepsi Chief Executive Indra Nooyi told Reuters earlier this week the company was considering such a move.

    Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co's Dasani are both made from purified water sourced from public reservoirs, as opposed to Danone's Evian or Nestle's Poland Spring, so-called "spring waters," shipped from specific locations the companies say have notably clean water.

    Coca-Cola Co. told Reuters it will start posting online information about the quality control testing it performs on Dasani by the end of summer or early fall.

    "Concerns about the bottled-water industry, and increasing corporate control of water, are growing across the country," said Gigi Kellett, director of the "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign, which aims to encourage people to drink tap water.

    San Francisco's mayor banned city employees from using city funds to buy bottled water when tap water is available. Ann Arbor, Michigan passed a resolution banning commercially bottled water at city events and Salt Lake City, Utah asked department heads to eliminate bottled water.

    Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world's population is without access to clean water.

    But industry observers said such opposition is unlikely to drain U.S. sales of bottled water, which reached 2.6 billion cases in 2006, according to Beverage Digest. The industry newsletter estimated that U.S. consumers spent about $15 billion (U.S.) on bottled water last year.

    "Consumers have an affection for bottled water. It's not an issue of taste or health, it's about convenience," the newsletter's publisher, John Sicher, said. "Try walking up (New York City's) Third Avenue on a hot day and getting a glass of tap water."

    Dave Kolpak, a portfolio manager at Victory Capital Management, said the environmental objections will have little impact on the bottom line for either Pepsi or Coke, though he admitted it could slow the market's growth rate.

    "Pepsi and Coke do not make a lot of profit" on bottled water, said Kolpak, adding that people may talk about the issue, but will likely continue buying some bottled water. Victory Capital owns about 3 million shares of PepsiCo among its $62 billion under management.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    polaris wrote:
    "Pepsi and Coke do not make a lot of profit" on bottled water, said Kolpak,...

    what? how could they not? It has to cost lest to produce than soft drinks, right? Maybe they don't make as much as far as total dollars, but the profit margin for bottled water has to be more than bottled soft drinks.
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  • Byrnzie
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    I worked for a water company for a few months and I learned that bottled water is indeed inferior in quality that tap water. Tap water is treated and contains ingredients which are beneficial to you, like calcium and flouride. Bottled water is just crap and the bottles create a hazardous waste.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I worked for a water company for a few months and I learned that bottled water is indeed inferior in quality that tap water. Tap water is treated and contains ingredients which are beneficial to you, like calcium and flouride. Bottled water is just crap and the bottles create a hazardous waste.

    Good ol' flouride...I don't know what we would do without it.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,246
    mca47 wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:

    I worked for a water company for a few months and I learned that bottled water is indeed inferior in quality that tap water. Tap water is treated and contains ingredients which are beneficial to you, like calcium and flouride. Bottled water is just crap and the bottles create a hazardous waste.


    Good ol' flouride...I don't know what we would do without it.

    Yes, a doctor friend of mine has confirmed that the flouride in tap water is better than any bottled water. Living here near the DC metro area I wonder if President Bush drinks tap or has his water imported into The White House?

    The tap water in DC is atrocious.

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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    g under p wrote:
    Yes, a doctor friend of mine has confirmed that the flouride in tap water is better than any bottled water. Living here near the DC metro area I wonder if President Bush drinks tap or has his water imported into The White House?

    The tap water in DC is atrocious.

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    Well I don't know if you were being sarcastic, because I was.

    Fluoride has no health benefit to anyone. It was added to water as a means to control pathogens and fed to the public saying "oh, it's good for you...it makes your teeth stronger...etc."
    Such horse shit!
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    mca47 wrote:
    Well I don't know if you were being sarcastic, because I was.

    Fluoride has no health benefit to anyone. It was added to water as a means to control pathogens and fed to the public saying "oh, it's good for you...it makes your teeth stronger...etc."
    Such horse shit!



    phew....i thought you were serious......the shit is poison.....

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