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California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean, it's a microcosm but I remember a friend in uni refusing to drink tap or Brita water. He'd just keep cases and cases of water by his mini fridge and just plow threw them.
I got upset with my sister in law because she'll buy bottled water when I had a water filter in our fridge. Hell, you can boil it if you're really uncertain. She said there was stuff about chemicals and I said the plastic for the water probably isn't any better for you.
But taking a shower in chemicals are okay? The mental gymnastics of some people.
Tap water is also more regulated than bottled water too.
I'm not defending bottled water, but in regards to the shower argument, there's a reason things are rated for topical use vs food grade
the better argument is someone drinking bottled water while using tap water to wash their foods
Tap water is regulated by the EPA, and bottled water is regulated by thr FDA (in the states). Both have to make it drinkable. EPA forces types of contaminents, intended use (residential water is designed to be drinkable), and have all water quality reports public after treating said water. EPA however doesnt regulate the pipes, so the flynt michigan sotuation came out due to that.
Bottled water tests water at source and before product. Bottled water must label the source where the water came from, which includes tap...
Unless the person drinking only bottled water actively reads the label to know what the source water is, its a very popr argument to avoid tap when the attempt to avoid it is half baked.
I think you misunderstood what I said, I'm agreeing with you on the mental gymnastics, but the argument you put out wasn't exactly the best when given to the PoV of the gymnast; they're avoiding ingesting tap water in favor of bottled, but they ingest it regardless, unless they wash everything with bottled water like a very crazy person
and didn't expect to respond again about this crazy hypothetical person that lives rent free in both our minds, but I'm going to evict that person right now for my own sanity
Marketing is a hell of a drug I guess
Tricked people into buying water they can get for near free from the tap
Possibly the biggest grift in history
Think of how many bottles of water you can get for $10. Anything from event prices to Costco prices, doesn’t matter.
For $10 I get about a thousand gallons of tap water. I have a back yard pond, so I think in terms of bulk quantity cost of tap water, lol. Technically the sewer charge is about another $10 for that same amount of water.
The water is pretty good, and tastes just about perfect to me once it’s run through the cheap filter in our refrigerator.
IMO the worst part of bottled water is the plastic, plus the thought of shipping literal water around the country/world.