OT: Some groups says they tested bottled water, lots of it is junk

[Paul F.]

DaviDC. wrote:
[quote=Trouble]
[quote=DaviDC.]
Bottled water is one of the biggest cons ever carried out in this country.

Not as bad as the recycling con. (Except for aluminum cans)
I harvest aluminum cans to take in for recycling.
If I was King of America, I'd outlaw glass & plastic bottles. If people are going to throw their used beverage containers out the window, then they ought to be made of something that's profitable to be picked up.
I favor a different plan...
Find the people dumping their plastic bottles out the window, and administer a $1000 fine, and a good beating or caning...
Problem solved without banning an otherwise useful product.

[OWC Jamie]

Uncle Wig wrote:
[quote=Rick-o]
[quote=mattkime]
I don't see why bottled water gets such a bad rap when any other bottled beverage uses the exact same packaging.

Seems that nearly everything in supermarkets that was once distributed in glass containers is now plastic. Where is the outrage about all of THAT plastic?
Matt and Rick, the difference is you can't get soda and fruit juice out of your faucet. Bottled water duplicates a perfectly viable delivery system which uses far less energy and does not add to solid waste.
It must be nice to live where there are not repeated biological pollutants and tainted delivery systems.


You can smell the treatment chemicals in a glass of tap water in Providence, R.I. from several feet away. When there isn't a boiling tap water health order.

[SDGuy]

Wags wrote:
Better option:

Big Berkey gravity water filter system

Been using one of those since September 2000. Still on the original filter (supposed to last 2000 gallons - I'm at right around 385 or so on it). At this rate, along with the five extra filters I bought, I should be good for another 280 years.

[GeneL]

Doc wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]Some groups says they tested bottled water, lots of it is junk

They did not test the water.

They evaluated the accuracy and completeness of the information on the labels and on the bottlers' web sites.
I was surprised to see Dasani's low rating on their list.

A few years ago, I was standing in line at a supermarket behind a man with a cart full of Dasani water. I asked him why he chose Dasani. He explained that that he was a science teacher at Dana Point High School and that he had given his class a project to evaluate the purity of bottled water and Dasani turned out to be the most pristine of all the brands that they tested.

I've only purchased Dasani since then.

I wondered about the value of EWG's testing results when it gives a "pure" bottled water a failing grade?


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[hal]

Paul F. wrote:
I favor a different plan...
Find the people dumping their plastic bottles out the window, and administer a $1000 fine, and a good beating or caning...
Problem solved without banning an otherwise useful product.

You're in CA - don't haven't you seen these signs in the last 20 years? Ever hear of anyone paying this fine?

[Paul F.]

You're in CA - don't haven't you seen these signs in the last 20 years? Ever hear of anyone paying this fine?

You make my point for me...
Notice that I specified actually charging the fine... although I admit I could have phrased it more clearly.

Road side trash comes from people, it doesn't spontaneously create itself. Focus on the human actions, and the objects are not a problem.

[OWC Jamie]

hal wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
I favor a different plan...
Find the people dumping their plastic bottles out the window, and administer a $1000 fine, and a good beating or caning...
Problem solved without banning an otherwise useful product.

You're in CA - don't haven't you seen these signs in the last 20 years? Ever hear of anyone paying this fine?
Only if it was a cigarette butt.

[bazookaman]

Penn and Teller on bottled water

[DaviDC.]

I live in an area with one of the top 10 water supplies in the country & it pains me to see some idiot loading a couple of cases of bottled water into a shopping cart.

Sometimes I ask why they're spending money on bottled water & a little part of my soul dies each time one answers, "It's convient."
So is using a quality reusable bottle filled from the tap.

[(vikm)]

I'm not a big water guy to begin with but I've never had any water from a tap (be it in someone's home or in a restaurant, with or without filtration) that tastes as good as Arrowhead does when it's cold. If others tasted as good and saved on plastic, etc. I'd drink it. Again, the small amount of plastic I consume through the drinking of water in a year doesn't come close to the amount of cig butts I see thrown out windows of cars or actual ash trays dumped out of the door while parked (I hate those fsckers and would love to go throw it back in their car).