Is there really any point to bottled water?

Question

I think they're ripping us off.

Answer 1

Hello:

You are exactly right,bottled water companies ARE RIPPING CONSUMERS OFF!! I know that I am going to get flamed by alot of people for saying this,but bottled water and the price of cases of bottled water are ridiculous!! You would be amazed at the amount of bottled water that I have seen people buy,and it costs alot for just one case of it!! Did you know that there was an experiment done on the t.v. show 20/20 about a year ago,and they tested some of the most popular brands of bottled water and guess what they found? ALOT of the bottled water that is out on the market,come from the Detroit,Michigan river,or from some other rivers and people are actually drinking river water,NOT CLEAN,Purified water like alot of bottled water companies try to claim that they are or use to bottle their water!!

Scientists have proven that if you drink the water out of your own kitchen sink,it is better for you,and it SO MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE,than buying water bottled by the cases and spending a fortune for it! I know that alot of people will say that water is better for you than pop or juice is and that is true,but your own kitchen sink water is better for your health than the river water from Detroit,Michigan is!! ;-)

Answer 2

They are ripping us off.
Refill the bottle with tap water and put in the refridge
if you can't tell the difference between a bottle of spring
water or tap water you're getting ripped off.

Answer 3

That depends entirely on which bottled waters and which tap waters you refer to!

Bottled water ranges from tap water from Cincinnati (just picking a spot here) to tap water from artesian wells in Tennessee... to tap water that's had some things removed from it (at a plant or with a home filter setup)... to distilled water which has had all the "taste" things and all the chlorine removed from it (only available in the large bottles used with crocks, I think).

Those can all taste very-very different!

Tap water itself varies widely depending on how many minerals it contains, which ones, and how much taste they may have, as well as how much chlorine may have been added.
So tap water can taste anywhere from truly-terrible to very good, depending on where it's come from and also how it's been treated after that.

If the tap water in the city or rural area where you live tastes reasonably good, then buying bottled tap water *is* a rip off... especially since many are sold somewhat deceptively.
But... if you live in a place where the tap water is terrible, bottled tap water would almost always be an improvement.

I buy the large bottles of distilled water myself because that has no taste at all (actually tastes just fresh and even a bit "sweet" to me compared to most tap water).
I find I drink a lot more water than I ever have before just because it tastes so much better (...distilled water has no trace minerals, but that's not a problem for me because I get them from my reasonably good diet).

Small bottles of bottled water are really conventient sometimes too, especially when used instead of soda, etc.


Diane B.

Answer 4

you are the ultimate option, it thoroughly wasteful the two economically and environmentally. And bottle water has been greater common in American societies in contemporary instances than that's been interior the previous in case you examine out charts. i think that convenience, merchandising, and the growing to be public theory of faucet water has led greater human beings to purchase bottled water on a typical foundation. the factor, explanation why they shop promoting bottled water in exponential parts, is because of the fact that's been a quite worthwhile billion-greenback marketplace that keeps to make useful aspects each 12 months. think of with regard to the undeniable fact that bottling water calls for much less components than the different drink on the marketplace (ninety% of the fee in touch is the plastic bottle itself), and it sells for greater advantageous than some beverages of equivalent/greater advantageous quantity (like those disgusting Arizona Ice Tea's which you would be able to get for ninety 9 cents at maximum gas stations). i've got even study that corporation's who bottle water do not even could adhere to the comparable standards as they do for different bottled beverages, and a few bottled water companies do not do hardly something in any respect to enhance the regular of the water they sell. a lot fossil gas is used to create the plastic, and an excellent sort of that plastic under no circumstances gets recycled (or perhaps recycling fee potential). If persons are unhappy with their faucet water, they are able to purchase a good water filter out at their close by convenience keep for below 30$.

Answer 5

I agree with you, those of us who were a kid during the 60's and 70's drank water from the faucet and it didn't kill us, I still drink it but now I use a water filter on the spigot. I buymy own plastic sippy bottles and fill them up from home and sip on that while I'm out so I don't have to buy bottled water while out of the house....and just wash them in a tiny bit of bleach and dish liquid and reuse (the kind that comes with your ten speed bike)

Answer 6

No, you can just find an old bottle of water, pour in some tap water, and refigerate the bottle. There, you have bottled water for free, instead of $5 a bottle.

Answer 7

I agree. BTW, what many people don't know is that bottled water is not subject to the same rigorous standards of testing that even public (city) water is.

I have personal knowledge of tests run on standard "store brand" bottled water that showed high concentrations of organic chemicals such as benzene. I would wager anything that NYC public water, for instance, is much cleaner than most bottled water.

Answer 8

Yes, there's a point. Instead of drinking gross water from faucets, people make great tasting fresh water in convient bottles to drink! Besides, if we just drank tap water, we wouldn't always have it cuz sometimes the water is low or gets shut off or something.

Answer 9

No of course not when ever im out jogging i just cup my hands fill them with tap water and when i get thirsty i just drink from my hands. My hands are way cleaner than the inside of a plastic bottle that no human hands have ever touched.

Answer 10

Well, if I'm out and I need a drink of water, I'm not going to go to a public bathroom to get it. That's why I buy it rather than all the other sugary drinks around when I go out.