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Bottled water

Soapweed

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Here are a few facts about bottled water:

a.. The containers are made of plastic or glass. When full, both become very heavy. It costs a fortune in oil to ship heavy bottles around the country, much less around the world.

b.. Close to 2 million tons of plastic was used to make bottles for water last year. That manufacturing involves an enormous about of petroleum, since it is a key ingredient in plastic. In the U.S. alone, 30 million bottles a day, billions of bottles a year get tossed out. Recycling them costs another small fortune in gasoline to haul them to plants.

c.. Bottled water is being promoted all over the world by a host of companies such as PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Co., Nestle and Cadbury Schweppes. These companies, plus the boutique outfits such as Evian and S. Pellegrino, are staking their future on getting you to drink water from bottles since it is getting harder and harder to persuade you to drink soda and other sugared water from their cans - and it's working.

d.. According to Beverage Marketing Corp., a provider of beverage-related data, consumption of bottled water has been growing by a gallon a year per capita in the U.S., and consumption has doubled in the past decade. Americans now drink more water from bottles overall than any other nation. However, we are only tenth among nations of the world in drinking bottled water per capita, trailing Italy, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland.

Then there's the cost. Why pay dollars per gallon for bottled water packaged with a fancy name and aesthetically impressive label when you can get pure and healthy New York City, Seattle, Boston, Geneva or Singapore tap water for pennies without adding to environmental problems?

In other words, if you want to do something to really reduce global warming and cut down the earth's pollution burden, stop buying bottled water. The containers mean oil in the shipping, oil in the refrigerating and oil in the recycling, not to mention the oil that's also needed in the manufacturing of plastic bottles. That's a whole lot of oil to quench your thirst in a most unethical way.
 

CattleArmy

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Did anyone else see the newsreport on bottled water and how most of it is just tap water? It just makes sense to save money. A buck for a bottle of water out of the tap or hose............. :?
 

nr

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At my former job site some people demanded that bottled water be available even though the tap water was fine for drinking and was tested monthly. Big jug dispensers were installed. People raved it tasted so much better. One day both the tap water and water dispensesrs were tested and, surprise :) the water dispensers had a higher bacterial count.

They removed the dispensers. One less cost.
 
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Anonymous

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Down at the courthouse we bought the cooler and first big bottle of water--then just kept refilling it out of the tap....Just Muddy Missouri water....
 

cowboyup

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yep, if only I could have seen the future in 85. I never dreamed that you could sell cold coffee for 4 dollars a cup or a bottle of water for a 1.50, right now I would be rich. I've thrown a fortune out in coffee. On the other hand if you have ever been in White Sulphur Springs or Harlotown, bottled water is worth every penny lest you have a roll of paper in the glove box and not be too shy about where you answer natures call. :wink:
 
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Anonymous

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cowboyup said:
yep, if only I could have seen the future in 85. I never dreamed that you could sell cold coffee for 4 dollars a cup or a bottle of water for a 1.50, right now I would be rich. I've thrown a fortune out in coffee. On the other hand if you have ever been in White Sulphur Springs or Harlotown, bottled water is worth every penny lest you have a roll of paper in the glove box and not be too shy about where you answer natures call. :wink:

Pulled into a water hole in Harlo once and ordered a whiskey ditch...When they brought it to me it was pure black- I told the sweetheart that "I wanted a whiskey ditch, whiskey and water" thinking she had put coke in it....She said "that is a ditch, the chemicals in our water turns it black when you mix it with whiskey"... I told her she could keep it and to just give me a Silver Bullet :roll: :wink: :lol: :lol:
 

jigs

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a guy I klnow went to England for a New Holland trip. he ran around the first 4 or 5 days drinking water, because he was anti - pop at the time. well on a tour he learned the waster water is purified 7 times and put back into the system !!

he drank nothing but pop for the rest of the trip!! did not care if it was filtered 7 thousand times! he was NOT drinking it!
 

kolanuraven

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CattleArmy said:
Did anyone else see the newsreport on bottled water and how most of it is just tap water? It just makes sense to save money. A buck for a bottle of water out of the tap or hose............. :?


On a hot day...hose pipe water is pretty good!! :lol: :lol: :lol:


When in Egypt some friends drank what they thought was bottled water. Seems the guy hawking it was just refilling empty bottles with tap water. They never noticed the seal around the top of lid. No reason really to notice.

When you buy a drink at any road side stand in Egypt, be it water of soda you HAVE to stand right there and drink it and return the container.

OMG...you talk about the 'Mummy Tummy'...they were sooooo sick!!!!
 
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