Honestly, why do we waste money to pay for bottled water? IT'S FREE!!!?

Answer 1

Wow i really feel you on this i have always said i refuse to pay for bottled water (especially when most of them are purified water anyway) you can spend like $30 for that PUR water filter and get the same results just buy one plastic reclosable bottle just so you can have that one bottle to bring walking or to the gym STOP WASTING MONEY DOESNT MAKE SENSE

Answer 2

Well, we buy it because it doesn't taste like chlorine, or sulphur, or what ever else that make people go "ew, tap water". It's also conveniently cold and portable. Because, essentially, people are lured by the "purity promise"; that we need to pay for this because it will help us become healthier.

However, I recently read an article on bottled water, in our local newspaper, (Nanaimo Daily News) that drinking bottled water is actually causing problems with our supply of "regular" water. Most bottling companies use natural springs or glacier water, which are meant to be a back-up supply for your own local reservoir. This means not only are you dealing with the amount of plastic for bottles, the depletion of a natural resource (which could be sold anywhere in the world), and the extra energy wasted to collect and bottle it... it also means less clean, fresh water needed by people who can't afford bottled, animals who would like to drink it, and future generations whose wells and reservoirs have dried up.

Answer 3

Firstly, because we live in a society full of consumerism: if it's for sale, people will buy it. Sometimes it tastes better than regular tap water but it is possible to obtain chilled, fresh water that is just as nutritious as those being sold by filtering and cooling it at home. As for the bottles, I sincerely wish all of them are recyclable and do get recycled. What a waste.

Answer 4

i imagine it truly is a count number of flavor and luxurious. some water only tastes more beneficial effectual than tap water. I had a water clear out put in at my kitchen sink... it truly is a tap of it truly is personal and it truly is an less than the counter opposite osmosis equipment. It makes the tap water flavor a lot more beneficial effectual. I nevertheless purchase some bottled water even as i'm out... and shop some bottles interior the refrigerator for convenience in a hurry. the fee of my water equipment became about $500... yet with the quantity of water used in this abode for eating (the pets and people) and cooking it became an funding properly worth it. I only change the filters each and every 3 months... and that is it! back... it truly is a count number or flavor and luxurious. i do not even purchase spring water after I do purchase it. i purchase purified water with minerals. It only tastes more beneficial effectual to me.

Answer 5

Advertising.

To top off the foolishness, many botted water companies simply bottle city water and sell it, as the standard are exactly the same. What a fantastic profit margin!

Answer 6

If its free, where? We are paying for bottled water because of necessity and to make sure that we are drinking a clean, quality and safe driniking water. Why we are paying? Because its for sale.

Answer 7

I totally AGREE!! twenty or so years ago I said two things would never fly and one was

bottled water...and the other was

The Simpson's cartoon....

Go figure!! Was I wrong and to this day I don't buy bottled water and I don't watch the Simpsons either!....LOL

Answer 8

Where I live you have to drink bottled water. It can be a pain too!!!!!

Answer 9

Uhhh not really, Don't you have to pay the water company for tap water?

Answer 10

Yeah, and then they complain about how much gas costs. But in areas where only well water is available, I could understand why.