On the Bottle?

Yahoo ^ | Fri, Dec 9 6:13 AM PST | Julia La Roche

[Macoozie]

“This whole bottled water industry—it should not exist and I think that in ten or twenty years it will be it won’t exist or it’ll have major warning labels like cigarettes do today.”

[Macoozie]

Are you on the bottle? Very hard water around here. A good multi part filter and softener system does a pretty good for general home use. Three houses all with different water; 1 public, two private. I'm partial to my private well water. Also use a water recovery sytem for re-deploying that Gray Water into productive use.

[dp0622]

Have to admit for all it’s faults, NY has very good tasting water.

I’ve gone to states where I couldn’t even gargle with the water.

Of course, well water rocks.

[wrench]

The real health hazard is the sugar water industry.

Hello adult onset diabetes.

[bgill]

Bottled water tastes awful.

Our well water can’t be beat. Great tasting stuff. Not filtered. Straight from the ground.

[exDemMom]

That article is an ad by Sodastream.

To me, the thought of carbonating water or any other beverage is gag-worthy. I suppose that carbonation may hide the flavor of bad tap water, but I would much prefer drinking filtered water, whether I filter it myself or buy it in bottles.

Carbonation makes things undrinkable; it hurts to drink carbonated beverages, and they have an off-taste.

[Baynative]

There's a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third-driest year on record.

The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls into two categories. The first is "spring water," or groundwater that's collected, according to the EPA, "at the point where water flows naturally to the earth's surface or from a borehole that taps into the underground source." About 55 percent of bottled water in the United States is spring water, including Crystal Geyser and Arrowhead.

The other 45 percent comes from the municipal water supply, meaning that companies, including Aquafina and Dasani, simply treat tap water—the same stuff that comes out of your faucet at home—and bottle it up. (Weird, right?)

But regardless of whether companies bottle from springs or the tap, lots of them are using water in exactly the areas that need it most right now.

(MJ-2015)

[taterjay]

I have had a Brita pitcher for my not so good well water. It would turn my filter green and this summer I told my wife I am done. Buy bottled water. We have a rural water source a mile away and I do need a backup system. Hopefully by next year I can get that. Then I will have another montly bill.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: bottled water industry ::

Julia needs to come out to WTX and have some fun drinking our “tap-water”.
Sorry, we don’t supply Imodium for visitors.

[mplsconservative]

Mother Jones as a source from 2015?? I can assure you that the upper midwest as depicted in the map you posted is not in a drought.

[fruser1]

To me it’s convenience, however I don’t buy every bottle. I refill them for a bit till they get nasty. Refil from pitcher filter w/tap.

I guess I could use a canteen. I find the bottle easier to carry. For trips, I also get a large bottle from which I fill the small one.

My “system” is cheaper than buying drinks along the way. Obviously costs more than tap-only, but there isn’t always a tap around where I go.

Plus, the tap can be nasty. No matter how clean things are coming out of the public treatment facility, it still has to travel through miles of pipe to get to your tap. If you have bad tap water, it’d be that course that messes it up.

[mplsconservative]

Meant to tack on - the best bottled water I’ve found is Chippewa from a spring in Wisconsin. Good tasting and better than grabbing a Coke from the fridge.

[Tonytitan]

Have to admit for all it’s faults, NY has very good tasting water.

I think that it's aquifered snow runoff from the Adirondacks. I guess it's kink of self-filtered.

[umgud]

Go to the mini mart for $2.50/gallon gas and go inside and buy $20+/gallon water? Nah, too many work-arounds.

[fruser1]

"areas that need it most"

Nothing stopping them from buying it. I prefer a free market.

According to the brand I get, Deer Park, it comes from PA spring water. I have no way to tell if that's true or not.

When they found water on the moon, I was seriously considering relabeling bottles as "moon water".

[fruser1]

“NY”

Long Island is basically a giant aquifier. NYC gets its water from that. Don’t know about mainland NY.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Good ole Paracelsus had the answer centuries ago: the dose makes the poison.

If people want to make staples out of Coca-Cola and the like, while eating a majority of their diet composed of modern rich foods, that is their fault for not considering the alternatives. I don’t hear even the soda companies telling people to drink it all the time.

I’d far rather have grown, adult people have the freedom even to eat and drink themselves to death, however, than the “help” of insufferable nannies that, as the bible says, “forbid to eat certain foods.” In the long run, that is worse. We do not live for bread alone.

[BluH2o]

... the best bottled water I’ve found is Chippewa from a spring in Wisconsin.

Poland Spring water was my favorite when we lived back east. The water originates from springs in Maine.

[DugwayDuke]

I grew up in Southern Oklahoma on a small oil lease. There were about seven homes, all supplied from a single water well. When I grew old enough to venture away from home, my dad showed me the well and how to get water directly from the well head.

The water was fresh and clear and so cold it hurt your teeth. Cold is good on an Oklahoma summer day when the temp hits 104.

[DJ Taylor]

"Our well water can’t be beat. Great tasting stuff. Not filtered. Straight from the ground."

Just curious, is your septic tank near your well?

[ctdonath2]

One market I haven’t seen solved well:
How to purify tap water such that one can put it in a bottle for a prolonged period? Advantage of bottled water is you know it’s shelf stable indefinitely.