[ConservativeBamaFan]

Personally, I don't think I'd drink anything in Mexico UNLESS it was bottled.

[Izzy Dunne]

bottled water costs more than gasoline," the study says.

I'm partial to drinking gasoline, myself.

[Steely Tom]

I'd like to see a pile of all the used bottled-water bottles, right next to a pile of all the discarded MSM newspapers. Don't forget to throw in the newsprint pile a container for all the water used in paper manufacture, as well as for the chlorine and other chemicals used for bleaching, printing, etc.

[HEY4QDEMS]

At as much as 2.50 dollars per liter (10 dollars per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline

Are they suggesting we drink gasoline??

[verity]

"...Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental group..."

It must be an objective study with an equally objective conclusion. Tight?

[theDentist]

Personally, I don't think I'd drink anything in Mexico UNLESS it was bottled.

... and labeled "Tequila".

For years we've been hearing these eco-domsayers scraming about the water you drink being polluted and damaging, and you should only drink bottled water. Now that people are drinkig bottled water, they're in a frenzy anyhow.

[MillerCreek]

I'm thinking that it's not THE WATER that's the issue here as to "taxing" natural resources.

IT'S THE PACKAGING, particularly the PLASTIC BOTTLES. They aren't often recycled and the manufacture of them is almost certainly posing the problems.

Particularly in countries mentioned...Mexico, China, Brazil...not known for recycling and known, instead, for mountains of trash and garbage nearly everywhere.

[Sybeck1]

The tap water is good in my area, but it doesn't come in the cool bottles I can take to the gym.

But its not great like the well water from my parents house over in Wanker county, with no flourine and all.

Take out the flourine and I would be totally happy. My kids brush their teeth anyway.

[SIDENET]

according to Emily Arnold, author of the study published by the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental group.

Enviro-freaks will bitch about anything.

[aligncare]

Single serving plastic containers are a litter and resources problem. I'm conservative, so...I conserve.

[MillerCreek]

In the U.S., just get a PUR water filter on the tap and use the PUR pitchers otherwise. PUR filers out most if not all fluorine and heavy metals, along with microbials and other nasties.

[ChadGore]

What's EVIAN spelled backwards?

NAIVE.

That's what you are if you pay 2.50 for a bottle of water.

[napscoordinator]

Blame the French. They started it (Evian). Yes don't even look in the direction of America. Go blame the French. Oh by the way, I am "shouting" this to the author.

[PreciousLiberty]

Dupe, posted it yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574507/posts

Please search before you post.

[beyond the sea]

"Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 US cars for a year," according to the study. "Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year."-----

bottled water is a joke.

[Mike Darancette]

Personally, I don't think I'd drink anything in Mexico UNLESS it was bottled

Only bottled Corona.