Bottled Water: as Terrible as We Suspected

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Bottled water is bad for you STOP useing them if you drink you drink to much it can give you cancer or even KILL you

Fred of CA 12:29PM October 20, 2010

It truly amazes me that our society, in any way, allows or endorses the rampant, wasteful, poisoning, disgustingly polluting, use of plastic water/soda/condiment packaging.
Are we really so blind? We act, react, or don't act so unthoughtfully, so carelessly, so selfishly, so completely shamelessly...so utterly disgustingly.
Big business, plastic bottle makers, and just as bad, those so clueless that you/we buy products packaged in so much damned plastic that the landfills will never degrade...and all for the sake of the cursed f------ dollar...who cares what's happening to Mother Earth?
The brainless idiocy of carrying case after case after case of plastic bottled water out to your f------ oversized gas-drinking S.U.V. with one person in it. Oh, and did we notice that he or she is also toting 6 to 8 plastic bags of groceries packaged in, WHAT ELSE?, plastic in every size and shape.
Where do such people think this plastic goes?, or do such peole think, at all? Perhaps the incessant use of so much, and so many forms of plastic has had an effect on what may have once been working brain cells.
America!!! For our childrens sake,
STOP BEING SO IGNORENT!!!
STOP BEING SO SELFISH!!!
STOP POISONING THE EARTH!!!
STOP WASTING NATURAL RESOURCES!!!
STOP USING PLASTIC BOTTLED WATER!!!

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kim of IL 3:55PM November 10, 2008

I THINK BOTTLE WATER IS HARMFUL FOR OUR HEALTH CAUSE IT GOT BACTERIA

SEIPATI of FL 4:09PM July 26, 2008

I wish more people would buy bottled water and contribute to our economical situation.

of TX 9:59AM July 23, 2008

I've now owned numerous water treatment equipment over the past 24 years and to date my newest is the no salt conditioner by cristal plus that I purchased from a company in Quebec Canada called aquaselection.com. Yes, I'm considered an expert in the water treatment field as well and have helped thousands with their water problems. The bottled water issue is not new but the alternatives today are better than ever. I favour the all natural and chemical free kind of water treatment today because we can do it like mother nature intended and we do it every day. I love my water clean for my entire home and when it comes to having to take some water along I use some reusable heavy duty bottles and fill them right from the tap. The water is processed on demand and always fresh. By the way this system is completely tested, verified, listed and approved by numerous independent sources. It's clean and green! I'm Mr. GreenMan and I do know all about water.

Mr. GreenMan 4:38PM July 18, 2008

While the environmental impact of drinking bottled water is important to keep in mind (the bottled water industry used over 17 million barrels of oil in the bottling and transport of bottled water last year in the US alone), there is another aspect of this issue that should not be overlooked. Corporations like Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle have succeeded in changing the way we think about water in this country. Using deceptive marketing to undermine the public's confidence in tap water, these corporations have created a 10 billion dollar a year industry. To learn more about challenging the corporate control of out most precious natural resource, check out:
www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org

Torie Pascoe of MA 11:21AM July 15, 2008

Ah, yes, Treehugger Today - a truly unimpeachable source...
I remember the days when USNWR was a news magazine worthy of respect for its well thought out articles and well-researched positions. This article has cemented it: presuming Treehugger an authoritative source on anything is like putting USA Today on par with Scientific American.
"But it's the Swiss Gas and Water Association they're quoting," you say. They studied the water quality in Zurich. Do the Swiss use US water quality surveys to (supposedly) corroborate their own little agendas? If so, I would hope their public would question it...Try reading the recently released study on the Washington, D.C. area tap water and THEN tell me that tap water and bottled water are equivalent.
Get a Brita filter, filter your tap water, and stop whining. If someone wants to drink filtered water, that's their business.
And by the way, try some real reporting, not this thinly veiled opinion piece garbage...

Disappointed of VA 9:21PM July 14, 2008

Go ahead - dream of a world without bottled water, and without the bottles that are lighter in weight and plastic content than any other beverage in the marketplace. OK, now open your eyes and look around. What do you propose to do about the other 99.7% of the plastic in your beloved municipal landfills? Oh, you RECYCLE them...hmmmm... I'm diabetic, and I'm going to drink lots of water rather than any sugary, flavored designer concoction the soft drink companies think I want to drink this week. And since I'm not always standing by a tap, it will be in a bottle sealed under controlled clean room conditions, not in a plastic or aluminum bottle that most people are incapable of fully sanitizing...especially using those "green" cleaning agents.
Do you folks always spend so much time and energy on minute issues? Are you that myopic?
What kind of container does your Whole Foods "green" cleaner come in anyway? As a famous TV investigative reporter says, "Gimme a break!"

Stand Back and Look at the Big Picture of VA 10:41AM July 14, 2008

I live and work in an area where the water tastes simply awful and there is some question as to its purity. I have a charcol water filter at home and would prefer to bottle my own water to take to work, etc. The problem is, where do I find glass bottles?
Last year I bought three small bottles of juice just to get the glass bottles. One I broke washing it and the lids have worn out on the other two. When I tried to replace them I discovered that this juice now comes in plastic bottles that are not supposed to be reused and I am back to buying bottled water to take to work.

Gwen of OH 8:51AM July 13, 2008