Posted on 10/20/2013 3:54:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Imagine there was a time when bottled water didn't exist in our catalog of popular commodities. Perhaps the trend started in 1976 when the chic French sparkling water, Perrier made its introduction. There it was seductively bottled in its emerald green glass amongst the era of disco and the spectacle of excesses... who could resist right?! What could be more decadent than to package, sell and consume what most consider (in the western world) a common human right easily supplied through a home faucet! It’s absurd that the cost of designer water is at a "280,000% markup" to your tap water and it's reaching record heights in consumption....
/johnny
Standards for tap water quality are much higher than bottled water, though in some communities where groundwater is very hard or soft, water from outside the area is a better drinking water.
/johnny
Wow, conservatives agreeing with liberals. Disgusting!
Tap water in Florida sucks, period.
If your local tap water tastes horrible, like in the summer, then what else you gonna do?
It’s a crazy world where people will pay for water, air, dirt, sand, rocks, cow****, etc. When I was a kid, you didn’t have to pay for these things. They were free. Kind of like cellphones, healthcare, food and housing are now to certain people. It’s a backwards world.
Actually, Perrier isn’t just bottled water. It’s sparkling water with a delicious taste.
I speak from memory, because I can’t afford the stuff.
Otherwise, I agree; it’s pretty dumb to drink bottled water unless you’re really stuck somewhere where there’s nothing else that’s safe to drink.
FWIW, the cost of bottled water is basically the cost of packaging, distribution and shipping. Tap water as a utility, provides a common commodity in bulk at a least cost distribution level.
When everybody drinks bottled water, they cause the cost of water utilities to increase because they lower their service volumes, but the distribution system costs the same. The consequence will be higher taxes to maintain the fire mains and distribution systems, although the volumes are generally small compared to the distribution system flows.
I drink beer, cow juice and, sometimes, fruit juice. Tap water will suffice if the others aren’t available. I do not understand designer water.
Tap water in California is putrid. Yet it appears some Conservatives would like to keep us from buying something we want to buy cuz it’s GOOD!
This is an old German saying. Franklin reportedly also said: “beer is proof that god loves man.” I have not been able to verify this.
The tap water is probably great when it leaves the treatment plant. It amazes me that people still drink it after its been through miles and miles of pipes. In many cases those pipes are decades old and in some they are over 100 years old.
Here in Tampa they lose roughly 10% of the water to leaks in the pipes. What gets in through those holes?
Several years ago there was a small town where the water department screwed up and connected a sewer pipe to a water main. People couldn’t figure out what all the grit was in their water, clogging their pipes, coffee makers and so forth. Then there was the white stringy paper like stuff in the water as well.
/johnny
We always keep bottled water on hand. It’s nice to grab one on the go and I don’t have to worry about washing reusable bottles. At home though all water goes through my Berkey first. Filling it I can smell chlorine in the water. Yuck!
Here between Ocala and Dunnellon we have a well with no filter. Water is pure and clean (test it yearly).
A water filter would be a lot cheaper.
That one is my favorite. They didn’t even hide the fact that people are naïve enough to pay for this crap.
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