[neverdem]

Weird website - no authors or dates

[Dan(9698)]

I remember a sign in a Burlington Wyoming rest room.

It said “Flush the toilet, Basin can use the water”

[Vince Ferrer]

bottles?

[Onelifetogive]

...was about $10.99 billion.

Maybe it's just me, but this looks a lot like "about $11 billion." Strange to ballpark estimate something to 4 significant digits.

[KoRn]

When I was a kid, I thought it was so strange that someone would pay for water in a bottle. I still do.

I realize there are instances where people need it for certain traveling situations, and cases where there are issues with the drinking water in the homes in some areas, but over 10 billion in sales???

[unkus]

Mostly tap water.

[al baby]

7-11

[SamAdams76]

When I am thirsty for water and I am in a convenience store, I automatically go for the most expensive bottled water. This is because I feel that the more I pay for it, the better the water will be. But no matter how much I pay for it, it tastes the same. So I’m thinking that I might have to reconsider my method of water purchasing.

[KeyLargo]

[Irish Eyes]

Not too much info on that website about bottled water. Looks as if it might be a good site for other info. Must admit I am hooked on Evian and Fiji. Trader Joe's is not bad either.

[familyop]

"Where Does That Water Come From?"

It comes from the water next to the dam, which is next to J.T.'s Bone Shack in the movie, "Planet Terror."

[DieHard the Hunter]

Here in New Zealand you are much better off drinking tap water than buying bottled water. Tap water is one order of magnitude cleaner because it is processed to Drinking Water standards. Bottled water, on the other hand, is processed only to Food Grade: still perfectly acceptable but not nearly as pure.

I suspect this would be the same case in most parts of the US: tap water is normally processed to a pretty hi standard of cleanliness, even if it doesn’t taste particularly nice.

Waitakere City water — the stuff that comes out of the tap where I live — has been judged the best tap water in the world. It’s delicious, particularly ice-cold.

Anybody who buys bottled water here in NZ is a mug.

[Carolina_Thor]

the 3/4 of the earth surface is water, yet we pay more for it than we do gasoline (when you buy these 20 oz. bottles in the convenient store). Is it a coincidence Evian spelled backwards is naive? Jars of dirt has to be next.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[zadox]

I've lived in a couple of places where the tap water was so heavily chlorinated that not even the dog would drink it. My favorite bottled water is

I know where this water comes from and it is probably the closest to truth in advertising you will even get. The bottling plant really is at the base of Mt. Whitney near Olanchia CA.

[JoeProBono]

[fso301]

Bottled Water - Where does that water come from?

[bert]

I visited a company called Aqua Chem in Knoxville Tennnessee. They are a leading manufacturer of desalinization units used to make drinking water from salt water. Their units are used on US Navy and other ships every where.

They have a process of vacuum distillation that distills the water at low temperature under partial vacuum.

They have a big new market...... water bottlers. They run city water through the machine, put in in bottles and sell it for more than the price of gasoline.

The U S Congress is mulling a similar process where they will be taxing the air

[Arrowhead1952]

Rush or another talk show host had a segment about bottled water a few months ago. Most bottled water comes from municipal water systems, and is shipped to other localities so the taste is different than their local water system.

The only time I use bottled water is when there is no tap water available. I refill plastic bottles at home with our tap water. I mark my bottles with a black R (for refill) on the lids.

Several visiting relatives drank those and commented how much better it tasted than other bottled water. I almost didn't want to tell them it was our tap water, but I did. They were surprised to say the least.