Do you drink bottled water?
Just curious how many people drink bottled water and why. Did you know that Dasani and Aquafina (bottled by Coke and Pepsi, respectively) are just re-filtered tap water? In other words, you could be getting the same water almost for free out of your tap at home.
Additionally, 70% of these water bottles don't get recycled. Plus the heavy water has to be transported around in trucks and planes, depending on where it comes from. All that energy used for water you could just be getting from the tap. Not to mention the fact that tests have shown that bottled water is no cleaner than tap water.
• 22% of the bottled water tested contained contaminants at levels that violated safe drinking water health standards for the state in which they were purchased.
• 33% of bottled water tested did not meet the state’s safety standard for bacterial contamination, chemical contamination, or both.
http://www.aquamd.com/water_health/bottl...
So if you drink bottled water, why?
Answer:
I drank bottled water because i did not know these facts and now you can forget about me drinking bottled water!! Other people drink bottled water because they also dont know these facts and bottled water is so convinient.
no its a waste (propel sometimes)
I drink bottled water because we got notices on the door not to drink the tap and there's a good reason for that. If you turned on my tap water and put it in a glass you would see so many things floating around, it's really nasty. So yes, I drink bottled water every day and it's easy to take places because it's really hot where I live so I need water with me.
Well. I try to do my part and recycle bottles. But yes, I do drink bottled water. Where I live, the water is horrible and Im a really paranoid person.
The water tastes fine to me. Ive never gotten sick from bottled water, so Im going to contunue drinking it.
The thing is, I think people drink bottled water because it's more convenient. For example, if you go to an amusement park or something and they have a stand where they sell bottled water, even if it's for three dollars, visitors would still buy it for the sake of quenching their thirst. The thing with filters is that you have to change them, which a lot of people are too lazy to do. With bottled water, you can bring it with you anytime you want without the need for cups (regardless of how it hurts the environment). As for the contamination part, nobody really gets sick or notices some kind of sickness spreading due to drinking from bottled water, therefore... people keep on buying and drinking the stuff.
Yes. The dispenser puts out instant, near boiling hot water.
I don't have to wait for my hot chocolate and my instant cappucino.
The tap, in most places, has a funny taste and a filter (depending on volume) would cost nearly the same but you'd still have to wait for water to get hot if you want a quick drink.
No I don't. I know most people that do drink bottled water believe that their tap water is no good, tastes funny, or contains too much clorine for their taste (..but coincidentally did not bother them in previous years when bottled water wasn't sold at the corner store. It's all in the look for alot of them as well (clean living, Hybrid SUV for the 4.5 person family, only Diet Coke with their Big Mac, etc...).
Not if I can help it, but sometimes you are out and you are extremley thirsty. You don;t want to drink a soft drink bc it is all sugar and juice is expensive. Water, though highly overpriced when compared to tap water, is still the cheapest drink and most effective at quenching thirst.
sometimes there just isn't a water fountain around , but the water peddlers are everywhere.
Good for you. I do not drink bottled water for the reasons you have presented. Thank you for bringing this to every-ones attention.
Yes I do, because the tap water in my area has high mercury content...or higher than i am comfortable with anyway, and I buy it in 5 gallon containers which are picked up by the guy who delivers it.
The tap water here, has many other pollutants in it, that i would rather not put into my body.
It is filtered by reverse osmosis, and is far better than any tap water i have ever consumed.
you are correct about bottled water, that is bottled by soda companies. I used to work in one, and all they did was use tap water, run it through a softener and filter, and dump a squirt of nitrogen in it before capping the bottle.
That wasn't Dasani, I have a little more trust in Dasani, but i haven't been in their production facility, so i have no clue how it is handled. I don't pay $2 for a bottle of water anyway.
Bottled water is a crock just like organic food.
Remember, EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE.
I do drink bottled water. poland springs in fact.
I dont like tap water, it tastes different...
No! Bottled water is a joke! The laws on purification are more stringent on tap water than bottled, so many people are paying $ for some to bottle tap water in a plastic bottle that leaches contaminants and fills earth with huge supples of senseless plastic!
I drink tap water (which happens to be pretty good in my area) which I would buy a home-purification system if I felt is was necessary. I've bought alloy bottles that I refill and keep in the fridge.
I can find much better uses for my money; and be green at the same time!
Yes, I drink bottled water for convience. I also recycle them though. But, recently I bought a bottle that I fill up with the filtered water from my fridge and I try to take that everywhere I go instead of using bottled water.
No, Only when on Holiday, I find bottle water is pointless in England has our tap water is safe to drink plus bottled water is expensive.
Bottled water is one of the most absurd wastes of money thats popped up in recent years. And the people who blindly assume "it's better for them" don't know that some of the chemicals used in the bottle itself cause cancer.
I'm on a mission this year which is to get into healthy eating, exercise and other habits. One of which is drinking more water. I know that I'm no good to fight the big fights until I've fought the little ones at home.
Not that my reasons are good enough but they are mine:
I've never had a problem with tap water until I moved to the country 6 mos ago. The tap water tastes like minerals and I usually end up feeling more dehydrated after drinking it, not that that stops me from drinking it. The bottled water tastes better, and doesn't leave me feeling funny.
Also, I have trouble drinking any water at all. So I started to buy those 24 packs of water and put it in my car, and I am now closer to the daily standard I should be drinking.
I do recycle my bottles. (I throw them in my truck and recycle them once a week ;-)
I appreciate your facts, they are definitely an eye openers.
Fluoride Free! Tap water has fluoride added and fluoride is hazardous for your health - yes and not many people are aware of this. Fluoride can cause damage to kidneys, (my son only has one and it isn't healthy). Also high doses fluoride (in some city water) will cause the enamel on children's teeth to discolor. Fluoride is not recommended for any child under two years of age. This happened to me as a child and there is nothing I can do to correct it except cosmetic dentistry.
My family of 7 recycles our bottles
Not on a daily basis, but if I'm out of the house and need a drink, you better believe I'll stop and myself a bottle of water. It's cold, it's refreshing, and you won't convince me it's better than taking a drink out of some nasty water fountain somewhere. Who knows what the heck is coming out of there.
nope. i use tab water to help stop global warming.
I recycle all my plastic.
I use water bottles because of the convenience. The water up here has no fluoride in it so I buy the fluoridated water at the store for my kids. In addition, my tap water has way too much chlorine. There are three kids in tow when I go somewhere and I take them with me in the car.
:)
I wouldn't put my trust in a study that does not disclose how many sources where tested and how the testing was conducted.
Have you had your tap water tested?
I drink bottled water because the tap water here tastes horrible. Surprisingly, we have artesian wells underneath our city, and me and my family try to use them as often as possible. We've started saving milk jugs and juice jugs to get the water. It's free, and tested regularly. Bottled water is a lot of times more convenient to get, though. Especially since i live in the dorms through out the year, and don't always have the chance to go back home to get the artesian water. I almost always reuse the bottles that the water comes in, anyway. I fill them up with juice or anything else so i can easily take them to class and not spill it. However, you can only refill certain plastic bottles about 2 or 3 times before the bottle starts to break down in your water. It's not exactly noticeable, but the bottles are so thin that they do start to break down in your water, and you end up drinking plastics. (especially in those really skinny bottles of water). Anyway, all in all, my reasons for drinking bottled water is for taste and convenience. Convenience being two things: convenience of a quick purchase, and easy to reuse.
The plastic containers themselves turned out to be the cause of my headaches. It took years to figure this out. Once I stopped buying food and beverages that were sold in plastic containers, my headaches disappeared. Thus any bottled water that comes in plastic is a no-no. Ditto for sodas, juices, cottage cheese, salad dressings, etc. How many of these plastic containers, made from chemicals that migrate into the food they contain, are actually making people sick?
I drink it because of convenience!
I am not suprised at these figures ,i wonder what it would be in Mexico ,i should imagine 10 times worse
So a lot depends on where the water comes from
so many water courses are contaminated in subtle and not so subtle ways by agro chemicals alone
In Mexico the Rivers and Lagoons are poluted by
millions of batteries that are thrown in by night fishermen
1 small penlight battery contaminate 10.000 litres of water
raw sewage added to water flows like cannals and rivers ,
trash dumped on rivers edges ,
Industry contaminates practically unchecked
farmers using agro chemicals (fertilizers ,herbicides & pesticides)then deforrest and the rains washing the topsoils impregnated with contaminants into the rivers
thousands of women that do the washing in rivers using harmfull detergents.
farmers dump acidic coffee husk into the waters which kills millions of fish
,
most of the water that is bottled comes from these sources
Bottled water is in many cases as dangerous as water from the rivers
The processes of purification address the organic factors but not the changes of PH due to agro chemicals
In Mexico are 5 million handicapped children and many children are born effeminate or Asexual ,mostly related to water
The best water to drink is charcoal filtered water straight from springs and high up in the mountains before agriculture gets near it .
So depending where you are i would not trust Tap water too much either anymore
When I was a kid we drank the tap water everywhere in Europe ,but times have changed
hope this cheers you up a bit
Nahhh, I'm not that fussy, I drink out of the tap.
It's much cheaper, It's saving water and you don't have to keep buying it
yeah especially when the weather is extremely warm and hot. i drink it to keep my body warm
Yes we get bottled water delivered through Ice Mountain water. The bottles go back when they're empty and we also recycle the on-the-go bottles we occasionally use.
Why? Taste, convenience, and knowing that our water supply does not have any harmful chemicals. Our neighboring town's water supply got contaminated from a landfill that had been closed for 20 years. The whole town was ordered to get bottled water.
Our bottled water doesn't have any funny taste to it and that's a big plus.
no i dont drink bottled water because the tap water that i drink off of is WAY cleaner and purer than bottled water. plus i do not like paying money for something i could get for free! it does not make sense!
thats just me though.
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Additionally, 70% of these water bottles don't get recycled. Plus the heavy water has to be transported around in trucks and planes, depending on where it comes from. All that energy used for water you could just be getting from the tap. Not to mention the fact that tests have shown that bottled water is no cleaner than tap water.
• 22% of the bottled water tested contained contaminants at levels that violated safe drinking water health standards for the state in which they were purchased.
• 33% of bottled water tested did not meet the state’s safety standard for bacterial contamination, chemical contamination, or both.
http://www.aquamd.com/water_health/bottl...
So if you drink bottled water, why?
Answer:
I drank bottled water because i did not know these facts and now you can forget about me drinking bottled water!! Other people drink bottled water because they also dont know these facts and bottled water is so convinient.
no its a waste (propel sometimes)
I drink bottled water because we got notices on the door not to drink the tap and there's a good reason for that. If you turned on my tap water and put it in a glass you would see so many things floating around, it's really nasty. So yes, I drink bottled water every day and it's easy to take places because it's really hot where I live so I need water with me.
Well. I try to do my part and recycle bottles. But yes, I do drink bottled water. Where I live, the water is horrible and Im a really paranoid person.
The water tastes fine to me. Ive never gotten sick from bottled water, so Im going to contunue drinking it.
The thing is, I think people drink bottled water because it's more convenient. For example, if you go to an amusement park or something and they have a stand where they sell bottled water, even if it's for three dollars, visitors would still buy it for the sake of quenching their thirst. The thing with filters is that you have to change them, which a lot of people are too lazy to do. With bottled water, you can bring it with you anytime you want without the need for cups (regardless of how it hurts the environment). As for the contamination part, nobody really gets sick or notices some kind of sickness spreading due to drinking from bottled water, therefore... people keep on buying and drinking the stuff.
Yes. The dispenser puts out instant, near boiling hot water.
I don't have to wait for my hot chocolate and my instant cappucino.
The tap, in most places, has a funny taste and a filter (depending on volume) would cost nearly the same but you'd still have to wait for water to get hot if you want a quick drink.
No I don't. I know most people that do drink bottled water believe that their tap water is no good, tastes funny, or contains too much clorine for their taste (..but coincidentally did not bother them in previous years when bottled water wasn't sold at the corner store. It's all in the look for alot of them as well (clean living, Hybrid SUV for the 4.5 person family, only Diet Coke with their Big Mac, etc...).
Not if I can help it, but sometimes you are out and you are extremley thirsty. You don;t want to drink a soft drink bc it is all sugar and juice is expensive. Water, though highly overpriced when compared to tap water, is still the cheapest drink and most effective at quenching thirst.
sometimes there just isn't a water fountain around , but the water peddlers are everywhere.
Good for you. I do not drink bottled water for the reasons you have presented. Thank you for bringing this to every-ones attention.
Yes I do, because the tap water in my area has high mercury content...or higher than i am comfortable with anyway, and I buy it in 5 gallon containers which are picked up by the guy who delivers it.
The tap water here, has many other pollutants in it, that i would rather not put into my body.
It is filtered by reverse osmosis, and is far better than any tap water i have ever consumed.
you are correct about bottled water, that is bottled by soda companies. I used to work in one, and all they did was use tap water, run it through a softener and filter, and dump a squirt of nitrogen in it before capping the bottle.
That wasn't Dasani, I have a little more trust in Dasani, but i haven't been in their production facility, so i have no clue how it is handled. I don't pay $2 for a bottle of water anyway.
Bottled water is a crock just like organic food.
Remember, EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE.
I do drink bottled water. poland springs in fact.
I dont like tap water, it tastes different...
No! Bottled water is a joke! The laws on purification are more stringent on tap water than bottled, so many people are paying $ for some to bottle tap water in a plastic bottle that leaches contaminants and fills earth with huge supples of senseless plastic!
I drink tap water (which happens to be pretty good in my area) which I would buy a home-purification system if I felt is was necessary. I've bought alloy bottles that I refill and keep in the fridge.
I can find much better uses for my money; and be green at the same time!
Yes, I drink bottled water for convience. I also recycle them though. But, recently I bought a bottle that I fill up with the filtered water from my fridge and I try to take that everywhere I go instead of using bottled water.
No, Only when on Holiday, I find bottle water is pointless in England has our tap water is safe to drink plus bottled water is expensive.
Bottled water is one of the most absurd wastes of money thats popped up in recent years. And the people who blindly assume "it's better for them" don't know that some of the chemicals used in the bottle itself cause cancer.
I'm on a mission this year which is to get into healthy eating, exercise and other habits. One of which is drinking more water. I know that I'm no good to fight the big fights until I've fought the little ones at home.
Not that my reasons are good enough but they are mine:
I've never had a problem with tap water until I moved to the country 6 mos ago. The tap water tastes like minerals and I usually end up feeling more dehydrated after drinking it, not that that stops me from drinking it. The bottled water tastes better, and doesn't leave me feeling funny.
Also, I have trouble drinking any water at all. So I started to buy those 24 packs of water and put it in my car, and I am now closer to the daily standard I should be drinking.
I do recycle my bottles. (I throw them in my truck and recycle them once a week ;-)
I appreciate your facts, they are definitely an eye openers.
Fluoride Free! Tap water has fluoride added and fluoride is hazardous for your health - yes and not many people are aware of this. Fluoride can cause damage to kidneys, (my son only has one and it isn't healthy). Also high doses fluoride (in some city water) will cause the enamel on children's teeth to discolor. Fluoride is not recommended for any child under two years of age. This happened to me as a child and there is nothing I can do to correct it except cosmetic dentistry.
My family of 7 recycles our bottles
Not on a daily basis, but if I'm out of the house and need a drink, you better believe I'll stop and myself a bottle of water. It's cold, it's refreshing, and you won't convince me it's better than taking a drink out of some nasty water fountain somewhere. Who knows what the heck is coming out of there.
nope. i use tab water to help stop global warming.
I recycle all my plastic.
I use water bottles because of the convenience. The water up here has no fluoride in it so I buy the fluoridated water at the store for my kids. In addition, my tap water has way too much chlorine. There are three kids in tow when I go somewhere and I take them with me in the car.
:)
I wouldn't put my trust in a study that does not disclose how many sources where tested and how the testing was conducted.
Have you had your tap water tested?
I drink bottled water because the tap water here tastes horrible. Surprisingly, we have artesian wells underneath our city, and me and my family try to use them as often as possible. We've started saving milk jugs and juice jugs to get the water. It's free, and tested regularly. Bottled water is a lot of times more convenient to get, though. Especially since i live in the dorms through out the year, and don't always have the chance to go back home to get the artesian water. I almost always reuse the bottles that the water comes in, anyway. I fill them up with juice or anything else so i can easily take them to class and not spill it. However, you can only refill certain plastic bottles about 2 or 3 times before the bottle starts to break down in your water. It's not exactly noticeable, but the bottles are so thin that they do start to break down in your water, and you end up drinking plastics. (especially in those really skinny bottles of water). Anyway, all in all, my reasons for drinking bottled water is for taste and convenience. Convenience being two things: convenience of a quick purchase, and easy to reuse.
The plastic containers themselves turned out to be the cause of my headaches. It took years to figure this out. Once I stopped buying food and beverages that were sold in plastic containers, my headaches disappeared. Thus any bottled water that comes in plastic is a no-no. Ditto for sodas, juices, cottage cheese, salad dressings, etc. How many of these plastic containers, made from chemicals that migrate into the food they contain, are actually making people sick?
I drink it because of convenience!
I am not suprised at these figures ,i wonder what it would be in Mexico ,i should imagine 10 times worse
So a lot depends on where the water comes from
so many water courses are contaminated in subtle and not so subtle ways by agro chemicals alone
In Mexico the Rivers and Lagoons are poluted by
millions of batteries that are thrown in by night fishermen
1 small penlight battery contaminate 10.000 litres of water
raw sewage added to water flows like cannals and rivers ,
trash dumped on rivers edges ,
Industry contaminates practically unchecked
farmers using agro chemicals (fertilizers ,herbicides & pesticides)then deforrest and the rains washing the topsoils impregnated with contaminants into the rivers
thousands of women that do the washing in rivers using harmfull detergents.
farmers dump acidic coffee husk into the waters which kills millions of fish
,
most of the water that is bottled comes from these sources
Bottled water is in many cases as dangerous as water from the rivers
The processes of purification address the organic factors but not the changes of PH due to agro chemicals
In Mexico are 5 million handicapped children and many children are born effeminate or Asexual ,mostly related to water
The best water to drink is charcoal filtered water straight from springs and high up in the mountains before agriculture gets near it .
So depending where you are i would not trust Tap water too much either anymore
When I was a kid we drank the tap water everywhere in Europe ,but times have changed
hope this cheers you up a bit
Nahhh, I'm not that fussy, I drink out of the tap.
It's much cheaper, It's saving water and you don't have to keep buying it
yeah especially when the weather is extremely warm and hot. i drink it to keep my body warm
Yes we get bottled water delivered through Ice Mountain water. The bottles go back when they're empty and we also recycle the on-the-go bottles we occasionally use.
Why? Taste, convenience, and knowing that our water supply does not have any harmful chemicals. Our neighboring town's water supply got contaminated from a landfill that had been closed for 20 years. The whole town was ordered to get bottled water.
Our bottled water doesn't have any funny taste to it and that's a big plus.
no i dont drink bottled water because the tap water that i drink off of is WAY cleaner and purer than bottled water. plus i do not like paying money for something i could get for free! it does not make sense!
thats just me though.
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