What's with women and bottled water?

Question

Just before I asked this, my mom was complaining about how she doesn't have any water (we're in the library) I said that there's a water foutain downstairs. But she said she wanted bottled water. I watched a sixty minute end cap thing with that old guy who I can never remember the name of. He was talking about bottled water, and the fact that women like it more than men. Why?

Answer 1

I dont know.. I dont know ANYONE who likes bottled water, so I cant really answer this question accurately.

I wouldn't want to waste money on buying bottled water..

Answer 2

I suspect that women prefer bottled water because they are more susceptable to marketing techniques. As someone who would drink out of a mud puddle if it was necessary this obsession with tapwater* shoved into a polycarbonate bottle is beyond me. At least the mud puddle water has no solvent residue from the polycarbonate bottle.
I am guessing that men dont care about bottled water because they are waiting for the introduction of bottled women. Maybe not.


*read the label. Most bottled water labels say in the microscopic print section "bottled from the municipal water supply of (fill in the name of the trendoid city of your choice here)" In other words....TAPWATER. You are paying that company a dollar a sip for some guy (probably an illegal alien invader) to sit there at some faucet and stick the water from it into nice little designer bottles. Ha Ha! People are SO gullible! Now where did I leave those Carbon Credits?

Answer 3

I just fill the bottles back up with tap water. Problem solved!

I think a huge factor is how trendy bottled water is. Similar to starbucks. From personal experience, I've seen that women and gay guys are more prone to following what's trendy.

As far as the beer thing, I never knew there was a difference. Yeah it's still beer. Actually, I do prefer it in a mug. A clear one, then you can get an extra sense involved in your enjoyment of the beverage (vision: seeing the color and bubbles)

Answer 4

Actually I don't think it has to do with Tap vs Bottles its Germs vs Clean!
I don't drink "from the tap" water because of the chemical etc. the city puts in. I've had my tap water tested so I know what's in there! I don't drink "fountain water" fountains are LOADED with bacteria!
I will drink filtered water and spring water. BUT I normally don't pay for it! I have a bottle and a RO/DI unit at home for my aquairum as well as for drinking.The water at work is filtered with Brita type filters. I will, occasionally, buy a bottle of water but it's for the bottle not so much the water! lol And yes, Dasani and Aquafina are filtered not spring water but I'd rather have filtered water any day! Spring water still can have the heavy metals(lead,mercury etc.) and crap that the RO/DI water doesn't!
Personally I think more women drink bottled water then men because men don't really care water is water to them. But women think about all the junk that could be in that water! We just preffer our water sans junk!

Answer 5

I know I like bottled water more then tap water b/c it is filtered better . I live in Phoenix and i have seen plenty of reports on the drinking water may or may not be contaminated so I'd rather not take my chances. I also don't have to just have bottled water I like water that has been ran through a water filter like Brita or Pur. I have also noticed when traveling that water tastes a little different in different places so I'd rather stick to bottled water where I know what taste I'm going to get.

Answer 6

When I'm at home I'll just drink water from the tap but when I'm out I prefer to get bottled water than drinking from a public water fountain especially when one night I saw a guy pee in a public water fountain. Just put me off!

Answer 7

i'm not sure... i know i prefer bottled water to the water at my home because i have a well & it's kinda metallic tasting. but my husband doesnt' mind the taste. so maybe we are just a bit pickier when it comes to our water? or maybe women drink more water? i'm just guessing. i've never actually heard this before, but for some reason it doesn't surprise me.

for me, personally, it helps me drink more water because it really does taste different than some well water & chlorinated city water. i love the water from my parent's tap though, it's a good well.

Answer 8

I'm not sure if women like it more than men. I think your mom likes having a bottle because she has more control over the bottle, than a water fountain.

That, and water has no calories...

Answer 9

When I was a field supervisor in hospice nursing, I observed this phenomenon, too. It looked unprofessional to me, carrying a bottle of water into someone's home to attend a death. I discouraged it. But, I started wondering about the behavior. My best guess is that women, more than men, need something in their hands, not just in their hands, but also to occupy their fingers. Women have a need, so to say, to engage their fingers in what used to be called handy-work, such as crocheting, knitting, sewing, tatting, arts and crafts, scrapbooking, and other fine motor skills activities. Women diddle with pens more, too, than do men. I think toting around a bottle of water might be related to that need to occupy our fingers with activity.

Answer 10

Because bottled water is healthier and tastier or look at it this way why will some men only drink bottled beer as opposed to beer in cans? Isn't all still beer?

Answer 11

BOULDER, Colo. – When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city’s sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male and 10 were strange “intersex” fish with male and female features.

It’s “the first thing that I’ve seen as a scientist that really scared me,” said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005.

They studied the fish and decided the main culprits were estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth-control pills and patches, excreted in urine into the city’s sewage system and then into the creek.

Woodling, University of Colorado physiology professor David Norris, and their EPA-study team were among the first scientists in the country to learn that a slurry of hormones, antibiotics, caffeine and steroids is coursing down the nation’s waterways, threatening fish and contaminating drinking water.

Since their findings, stories have been emerging everywhere. Scientists in western Washington found that synthetic estrogen – a common ingredient in oral contraceptives – drastically reduces the fertility of male rainbow trout.

In short ... it's not "Bottled Water" but "Bottled water" that has had the "Reverse Osmosis" treatment that I look for.