For the life of me, I can’t even comprehend how many people I see drinking bottled water. Maybe I’m just an old fashioned tightwad, but I just can’t believe so many people are actually PAYING for a bottle of WATER. I’ve seen places where a bottle of water is more expensive than a bottle of soda. I'm not talking about the flavored waters, which can be quite good. I'm talking about just plain ol' water. I personally think the whole bottled water industry has successfully perpetuated the biggest fraud on the American people since the Pet Rock. Thoughts?
I buy large packages of bottled water, less than 10 cents a piece. I use them for the container and convenience, but not because its "cleaner" or "tastes better", because it isn't and it doesn't. I often refill the bottles and reuse them for days at a time.
Nope, I have a 25oz shaker bottle that I got from Bodybuilding.com to use for drinking water purposes. I fill it with the fridge's filtered water. It's way cheaper than buying bottled water.
I still think it is pretty much a crock, but my girl always has Osarka bottles in the fridge, and I'll be damned if they don't taste better than regular tap water. That said, I'll drink hers, but I'm not buying them for myself.
You shouldn't be refilling it because if you drink straight from it, bacteria builds if you dont wash them well...these water bottles are made for 1 time use...
It's BULL. Why not just keep using the same SQUEEZE BOTTLE or sports bottle and refill it with TAP WATER?!?!? Oh, yeah, the economy. Boo hoo... I bought lots of water... this economy is killing me... boo hoo... whine whine whine... Osarka? For someone who is such a stickler on people who write grammar well, this is a major gaffe, my friend!
I've been doing it for years and I'm fit as a fiddle. I keep them at a reasonable temp, and never keep them so long germs could build up.
I have a four-station reverse-osmosis filtration in my kitchen (and to my ice maker). So, we normally don't drink bottled, but we drink filtered.
I bought a water dispenser and go to the Watermill express stations to refill the bottles, which only cost $1.05 for 3 gallons of water.
The only times I buy bottled water are when I'm traveling or going into a movie theater, airplane or something. It's more about the convenience factor. Having said that, even then I rarely ever buy the stuff. I'd much rather bring my own. It is a myth that bottled water quality is better than tap. Municipal tap water has much, much, much stricter regulations to control quality. The bottled water industry has nearly no regulations in place. In most cases, they take the tap water, run it through a filter that does pretty much nothing, bottle it and slap a label on it with a snow-capped mountain to suggest that it's naturally pure or something. It's all a big scam. However, there are some places in the world where you can't drink the tap water and have no choice but to buy bottled. It was like that when I lived in Korea. Also, the water supply at my grandmother's place isn't very good. The water has a lot of sediment in it. So, she has to buy bottled.
Some tap water has a chemical/pesticide taste to it, but technically any water from tap is legally drinkable. Try putting tap water in the fridge and see if there's any difference between that and bottled water...
Think of all the petroleum that goes into the production and transportation of water. It requires petroleum to produce the plastic bottle. (and plastic doesn't biodegrade, though is recyclable). It requires petroleum to transport the water. It is intriguing how everyone wants to go green and save the earth, and won't do the easiest thing by not purchasing bottled water. Just filter the tap, and fill up reusable bottles. That way you reduce the unnecessary use of petroleum for bottling and transporting. That gadget that hooks up to your faucet? It filters 100 gallons. Something that fits in the palm of your hand packs 800 pounds of water, and it doesn't destroy the earth like the latter does.
