Comments on: Why on Earth Are We Drinking Bottled Water?

By: thenonconsumeradvocate

thenonconsumeradvocate — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:41:05 +0000

Rene,

I have no problem with drinking bottled water as associated with hurricanes. And it does sound like the water where you live is pretty awful. (I’m aware that I’m lucky to live in an area with great drinking water.)

Have you looked into delivery of large water bottles, like an office water cooler? This would cut down on individual water bottles and might even cost less in the long run.

Katy Wolk-Stanley
The Non-Consumer Advocate

By: ReneVague3

ReneVague3 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:32:08 +0000

At my parents’ house, the well water is clean and tasty so I drank that growing up. Now I drink bottled spring water because the city water where I live is heavily chlorinated. Brita and the like don’t filter out the taste, so until we can find an affordable filtration system to remove it, I will continue to buy it.

I don’t understand all the hate against bottled water. Yes, I understand the environmental implications of over-using it, but it serves a valuable purpose, especially during hurricane season.

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By: James

James — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:36:18 +0000

I live here in Japan and can tell you straight out that NOT putting Flouride into the water leads to a nation of people with HORRENDOUS teeth. Most people here clean their teeth after every meal and it still doesnt help.

There is obviously a risk when you introduce *any* kind of chemical or medicine into the system. I believe in the case of Flouride the benefits outweigh the risks though – some of the “evidence” on that website relates to studies in the 1940′s!

Catherine: I assume you also don’t take any kind of government sanctioned medicine either? Or drink anything other than the purest mountain spring water, what with all those preservatives added to everything nowadays? You only eat home grown food too?

By: Nancy Perez

Nancy Perez — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:55:56 +0000

I live in Los Angeles, and the water tastes pretty nasty in our area. We have been using a distiller for the last several years and we drip the distilled water through charcoal (we buy aquarium charcoal for that purpose). The charcoal is supposed to filter out any impurities that might be caught in the condensed steam. I recommend it. The water tastes great. Of course we are using electricity to run the distiller, so I can’t say it is a very ecological practice.

By: sybil

sybil — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:23:06 +0000

My hairdresser told me today that her 6-yr-old daughter had FIVE cavities (and the pediatric dentist wants to put in two crowns – on baby teeth!). She called her regular dentist and his first question was, “Does she drink bottled water?” Turns out, she’s been drinking nothing but bottled water all her life and hasn’t been getting the fluoride…..thus the cavities…….

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:07:10 +0000

I am ashamed to say that I fell for the bottled water scam hook, line, and sinker after viewing tons of news stories about how nasty the water in Los Angeles is, where we live. I later learned that our tap water is fine, and it doesn’t even taste that bad. It’s fine to drink with a filter.

We’ve since mended our ways, but I sometimes still cringe at the thousands of plastic bottles I added to the problem.

We now use Kleen Kanteen bottles, although I still also use a Nalgene I don’t want to toss.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:09:42 +0000

I would gladly drink tap water if it did not have poisonous flouride in it. Where I live the water is flouridated. No choice. Why should I be forced to drink flouride? And it IS poison, and it DOESN’T prevent cavities. I’m just sayin’: http://tinyurl.com/yse3oy

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:00:02 +0000

We’ve completely given up bottled water in my house, for the environmental reasons that Katy discusses so eloquently. Our tap water is clean and clear, no reason not to drink it. Except I don’t like the taste…

My issue, flat out, is taste. If I have my favorite bottled water (in case you’re wondering, it’s “Poland Spring”), I would easily drink 2-3 liters a day. (And I haven’t done that in over 2 years, because we’ve given it up altogether.) But if it’s tap water, I will only drink about half a cup. I’ll pour it for myself, but I don’t actually drink it because I don’t like it.

For health reasons, my doctor wants me to drink at least 2 liters a day. Is it better to drink bottled water or tap water that is filled with powdery sugary chemicals to mask the taste?

So for now, I’m struggling to drink 2 liters a day of tea (sweetened with splenda) and lemonade (sweetened with sugar), because I refuse to buy bottled water. But I wish I could…