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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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There are many places with bad tasting municipal water, and many people with wells that have water with a nasty taste. For them the bottled water is a necessity, though most will have the big 5 gallon bottles and cooler. Other places, like where we live, the water tastes better than bottled yet we still buy the 12 or 16 oz. bottles at times for the convenience for road trips, hiking, and events. It's just easier than refilling more durable containers, and worth the price.
When you have well water like we do, which is untreated, bottled water for drinking is no scam. It tastes so much better. Now, we could treat our water, as many do ... but such systems are not cheap.
Totally agree. I have the same issue where certain minerals are too high in my ground water and purchasing a full house filtration system plus the materials needed monthly far exceeds the $4 for each case of 24 bottles of drinking water.
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The issue isn't the companies selling bottled water. It's the brain-dead consumers that will spend $2 for a bottle of water. Honestly, that's no different than someone that will wizz away $5 at Starbucks for an overpriced coffee. It's their money, they can do with it what they want. Kind of like paying 3x the price for the same product because it says "organic".
When you have well water like we do, which is untreated, bottled water for drinking is no scam. It tastes so much better. Now, we could treat our water, as many do ... but such systems are not cheap.
The first is spring water, which is filtered and treated, and which is usable by those folks who have issues....taste, contamination, minerals, etc. which makes their own water distasteful to them.
And then there is sheeple water...which is most of the bottled water...which is just municipal water stuck in a bottle. Cracks me up when i see people spending two bucks a bottle for stuff that comes directly from the tap.
You're basically calling your customers suckers right on your bottle.
The only times I've ever bought bottled water is when that was the only real option. Otherwise, I'm perfectly fine with tap water. It tastes just fine in my city.
I understand that some people live in cities with really poor tap water. So get a filter. Or buy reverse-osmosis water from the grocery store by the gallon. Refills at my grocery store are about $0.25/gal., while a 20oz. bottle of Aquafina at the checkout is $1.59.
The following is the latest in a new series of articles on AlterNet called Fear in America that launched this March. Read the introduction to the series.
The biggest con job perpetrated on the consumer is not some shady operation selling bogus cures through TV infomercials. America’s biggest snake-oil salesman is actually the beverage industry, or Big Bev, which resells the simplest and most vital product for thousands of times its value. That product is drinking water.
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