Bottled Water: Don't Buy It!

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Drawmack said:
If no one in the general public purchased bottled water would that store have had bottled water on their shelves for you to buy for the disaster area?

If no one in the general public purchased bottled water would there be bottled water to ship into disaster areas around the world?
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If there were no demand there would be no supply. What’s the point. If I were unable to buy it I would have gotten some gallon jugs and filled them from the tap. I needed to take some with me and I was a thousand miles from home and in a hurry. Spending the money was more convenient than searching for jugs and a tap. I was on the road and in a hurry to get to a disaster area.

I buy bottled water occassionally, mostly to take on a plane or in the car if I am gassing up and thirsty. I don’t buy bottled water to have at home. I have an under the sink system and a little tap that delivers it. The cost is less than a penny per gallon. There is no maintenance for years. If I bought the water my family drinks at home it would cost about a thousand dollars per year at $1 per gallon. If we bought the water we cook with it would be even more.

I wonder how human life survived before the bottle water era.
 
How do we know that the bottled water manufacturers aren’t just filling plastic bottles with tap water and then selling it at an exorbitant price? We have, for the most part, good clean tap water here in the USA. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for people in many other places. Bottled water is just another example of advertisers selling things to people that they do not need. Anyone who is really concerned about water purity can always install a purifier…plus we certainly do not need any more nondegradable plastic bottles around. Bottled water is another form of snake oil. Peace.
 
ML561 said:
How do we know that the bottled water manufacturers aren’t just filling plastic bottles with tap water and then selling it at an exorbitant price?
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We don’t, but at least it gives us cause for optimism.
 
I’m sorry, this is the most ridiculous thread I’ve seen. Don’t you all have something better to discuss?
 
USAF4n71 said:
I’m sorry, this is the most ridiculous thread I’ve seen. Don’t you all have something better to discuss?
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It’s rediculous to worry about what someone purchases for their own consumption, it’s not rediculous to defend one’s right to purchase what they want or need. Be on guard, with a liberal populist like Obama in the highest office of the land, crazy ideas like the one being discussed here could end up being law someday.
 
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