I could never understand why people would purchase water in plastic bottles when they have fresh water running from their faucets at home.......
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Generic spring water in a gallon jug tastes so much better and it’s 96 cents.
I used to live in Wilton, NH.
The town of Wilton had a well on this huge aquifer that supplied all the public water including my house. About 400 feet away from the town’s well was the well for Monadnock Spring waters bottling plant. The only difference with the taste of the water was the 100 year old cast iron pipes that the water ran through to get to my house 3 miles away.
Bottled water has become a huge part of the liquid refreshment industry. Dasani(owned by Coca Cola) is one of the largest volume sellers in the world now. As people have chosen to be more healthy, Coca Cola has seen their volume of the original product go down. People have realized that drinking 44 grams of sugar in a soda is not good for you.
Also, drinking saccharine sweetened drinks is probably not good for you.
I am guilty of buying San Pellegrino Italian mineral water.
I buy 12 packs of it in plastic bottles. It is bottled in northern Italy. It is then shipped by container truck to a port in Italy. Then it is loaded on a ship. That ship then transits the ocean probably to the port in NJ or Boston. Then it is loaded on another truck to the grocery distribution warehouse. Then by another truck to get to my local grocery store. Finally it gets loaded into my Toyota Tacoma pickup and brought to my house where I drink it. However, I am a good person BECAUSE I recycle those plastic bottles that have shipped 5000 MILES to get to my house.
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Generic spring water in a gallon jug tastes so much better and it’s 96 cents.”””
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those dispensers of ‘spring water’ are really attached to the local municipal water source & are highly filtered.
I wonder how often those filters are replaced???
Generic spring water in a gallon jug tastes so much better and it’s 96 cents.”””
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those dispensers of ‘spring water’ are really attached to the local municipal water source & are highly filtered.
I wonder how often those filters are replaced???
Also- I live on a private well.
IF I pumped 1,000 gallons a month (for my horses) at .96 a gallon, that would cost me $96. My current power bill is $63.12 and that power is also used for all of my appliances & computer & TV’s, and forced air heat distribution.