Is bottled water a good example of privatization?

Question

Giving us the same product the municipalities gave us for 10 times the price and 4 times the resouces wasted.

It takes 4 liters of water to make the bottle one liter of bottled water comes in. It costs 17 million barrels of oil a yr to make that bottle and keep it cold in the store. Plastic bottled dont disintegrate.

Yes marketing fools us into doing things against out interestest. Polotics fools us into voting for things against our interests, ooh but we never were asked should we privatize the military or any important Gov services....,

Answer 1

Absolutely bottling water is a good example of privatization / capitalism. If it were up to the R party and big corporations, they would privatized anything and everything they possibly could.

Btw, PBS did a study last year and found that bottled water is the exactly equivalent to tap water out of your sink.

Answer 2

You can still beat them at their own game. I have used the same bottles for over a year, I wash them & refill at home or work, out of the water cooler.
My son has a few too, one for school, one for his room. The savings do add up, & when I find free bottles of water, I take them & use them too!
Sometimes, the local water is not good. I lived in an old farmhouse & we had to buy water to cook with. The water was so acidic, it leeched copper out of the pipes. The shower was always green, & needed cleaning. This was right outside Princeton NJ too, not some backwater town or country. It still had well water & it was bad because of all the chemicals used on the old farm. The farm became a tree farm, then went untended & the house rented out. We did get nice if not overgrown Christmas trees there! Now, it belongs to the town, & is a water park.

Answer 3

One of my nephews is involved in a new bottled water company. Their operation is not only very "green", but civic-minded as well. They use a unique recyclable bottle, hire handicapped, and learning disabled people, and donate generously to a lot of social and environmental causes.
Another thoughtful policy of theirs, is that they schedule production to levels that are certain not to deplete the natural spring from which their water flows.
They are also using some alternative power sources, and plan more as it becomes cost-effective.
For more, check out this link: http://www.walnutgrovespring.com/

Answer 4

It is a good example of free enterprise. If sellers want to sell and buyers want to buy, that's the way the system works. When you drink municipal water, you immediately get a face full of chlorine.

Answer 5

No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with privatization. Government has not stopped producing municipal tapwater.

What it is, is a good example of a private business providing a product that the consumer wanted.

If you don't like it, tango sierra!

Answer 6

It is probably the uglier side of capitlazation. But as other people point out you dont have to buy it. One of the wonders of good advertising. Buyer beware, the onus is on the consumer.

Answer 7

No one forces you to buy bottled water. And many people do for the convenience of it or because they don't care for the taste, levels of impurities, or the additives like fluoride in the city water. If people stopped buying bottled water they would simply go out of business (unless the government bailed them out).

Answer 8

Y E S, that is a good point!!