why does bottled water cost as much as a soda?

Question

I mean it has none of the added ingredients so it should be cheaper right?

Answer 1

I agree it should be cheaper less invovled in the manufacture of it

Answer 2

Actually, the cost to produce 20 oz. of soda is only about .3 cents. The expense comes from bottling, promoting, shipping, things like that. The reason water costs as much or more is because the price of the product itself isn't that significant. If you were to recieve a discount equal to the difference in cost of product it would only save you about .2 cents. Because the same amount is spent on the associated expenses no matter what is in the bottle.

Answer 3

Because people are stupid enough to fall for the hype.

Eau, no: Clean, healthy and pure? Hardly. Bottled water is killing the planet

And our thirst grows, with 154 billion litres drunk in one year.
By Jon Neale and Jonathan Thompson
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article344959.ece
Published: 12 February 2006
Bottled water, the designer-look drink that has become a near-universal ac-cessory of modern life, may be refreshing but it certainly isn't clean. A major new study has concluded that its production is seriously damaging the environment.

It costs 10,000 times more to create the bottled version than it does to produce tap water, say scientists. Huge resources are needed to draw it from the ground, add largely irrelevant minerals, and package and distribute it - sometimes half-way around the world.

The plastic bottles it comes in take 1,000 years to biodegrade, and in industrialised countries, bottled water is no more pure and healthy than what comes out of the tap.

The new study comes from the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington-based environmental group which has previously alerted the world to melting ice caps, expanding deserts and the environmental threats of a rapidly industrialising China. It points out that the world consumed a staggering 154 billion litres of bottled water in 2004 - an increase of 57 per cent in just half a decade.

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Answer 4

Depends....regular distilled water, going in the same jug as a gallon of milk will run about 50 cents..... you can go to a refinery wherein the toxins are removed with a five gallon container and for literally pennies get it filled up proving once again that buying in bulk is better. Sodas can be as much if not more than purified water. please look on the label to see where it is formulated...... You can pay dearly for 3 quarts of ultra purified water...nearly $2.00 in some places. The clearer the container say as in Evian...there is less chance of a carcinogen as there is a reaction for the foggier looking containers...the thing s do your best in this....I did and it saved me from ore kidney stones.....like you needed to hear that. (not) However what i have written is what i discovered.
Thanks.
BTW where I live the water is LOADED with things youwouldnt want to have in your system.....sometimes it is the water, often the pipes.....needing to be replaced...i say play it safe.....buy the water.

Answer 5

where I am a Coke costs €1 and a bottle of water costs 1.40 and a smoothie costs about €3! its ridiculous the government are spending loadsa money on healthy eating campaigns and they're not working cus the cost of healthy drinks and food is just too much. I'm a broke student-I can only afford to be unhealthy!

Answer 6

It should be. But a lot of people think that bottled water is worth a lot more than regular water, so they are willing to pay as much as they would for a soda.

Answer 7

The added ingredients dont add up to a hill of beans. Just some flavoring and sugar.

Answer 8

The water is presumed to be healthier, so it is expensive for what it doesn't have, rather than what it does. But if people would buy a bottle of air for the same price, they would sell it.

Answer 9

It costs to bottle it and process it, and advertise it, and ship it and stock it just like anything else. The contents of the bottle usually has very little to do with the price.

Answer 10

Because people are dumb enough to pay for bottled water instead of just buying a water filtration pitcher or attachment for the sink.