Does mineral water cause global warming?

Question

Vast factories, huge fleets of lorries, consumers loading bottles into their cars; recycling and landfill of glass and plastic etc.
Tap water is cleaner and cheaper. So, should bottled water be banned?

Answer 1

Yep! The true essence of global warming. Forcing people to act the way you want them to act.

The environment is cleaner today than it was 50 years ago. Global warming is about raising taxes and controlling peoples behavior.

Answer 2

Ironically, Dasani, which I believe is bottled by Coke, is tap water. And many others, such as Figi. It is all in the marketing, and how the appearance of the product appeals to our vanity. Shallow, but true. Real mineral water actually has minerals in it, such as San Pelligrino, Evian, etc. Note that these are European products. I am assuming that you are not from the US of A because of the use of the word lorrie. When it comes to Americans it is all about appearance, not responsibility for our use of energy, landfill size, and on and on. I think that people in general think they are getting a healthier product when they buy it prepackaged. And they think they look cooler. The best water I ever drank came from a local spring, unfiltered. I refilled plastic gallon containers at least once a day. Most bottled water is sold at a premium now, so how can people be convinced that this is a problem that has to be addressed. With selfish, shallow people appearances trump all, and they couldn't take responsibility for their current negative actions.

Answer 3

The obvious answer is that the Mineral Water does not cause Global Warming. Mineral water flows out of mountains' streams from the rain that fell on them. Mother Earth filters the rain water and adds the minerals through this process.
The problem lies in with the plastic bottles producers in which the Mineral water is sold, the factories that produce the plastic bottles. Plastic is innert, indestructable. Once it is produced, it does not harm the atmosphere. As far as Tap water is concerned, think of all the Chlorine you drink and put into your body? That is not good for anyone's body!

Answer 4

It should be obvious, shouldn't it? Sucking more oil out of the ground to make plastic water bottles that we don't really need in the first place. Superb question.

My reality:

I don't like the taste of tap water in my area. I can't stand it, in fact. It tastes metallic. So I buy bottled water. It has zero to do with 'image' as another answerer wrote. If I am in New York, then I drink tap water. Forget about it in California though. This, for the same reason that the pizza is better in New York: taste. (there are actually pizza places here which ship Brooklyn tap water out because it is a key ingredient in their pizza)

Anyway, I have always bought bottled water in bulk for drinking and cooking, refilling my 3 containers at my community market which has a water dispensing machine.

But . . . I'm as guilty as the next Californian addicted to glaceau Vitamin/Fruit water. This doesn't bear well for a bio-diesel benz-driving ~geologist touting sustainability and cradle-to-cradle manufacturing ! I wanted to do something about my problem! And no, drinking tap water daily was not a consideration. I don't even like to cook with it.

What I wound up doing was writing to Glaceau and asking them if they had a bulk solution I could present to my local grocer or if they offered a national deposit on the return of their bottles.

There is a CRV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Redemption_Value but considering I have seen this product across the U.S. I suggested a national deposit. After an automated reply 'don't ya just hate these lame, auto reply emails companies send out as a response to your emails?' I never heard from Glaceau again so I would up trying to make it myself.

Like I do with my other fav'e foods and beverages I went to http://www.dietfacts.com and looked up the ingredients


It wasn't half bad but I didn't have the variety.
More recently, I discovered a certain Jonathan Kaufman did the same thing even better and posted the recipe to his blog.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-06-06/news/make-your-own-vitamin-water.php

BTW, Steve H makes some great points about plastic and chlorine.

Answer 5

No. To start with...
There is more risk to human health with the use of bottled water because there is less legislation. The tap water will (most of the time) meet requirements set down by law. By comparison, bottled springwater could actually be just water bottles filled from a spring, bugs and all. Think about it. It is actually dangerous and nasty. BUT - if people are silly enough to buy it and pay astronomical amounts of money for something that they could get for pennies, then they should. It is your money, support what you want with it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

it has been in government buildings in san francisco.

Answer 8

Why would it be banned?