Bottled Water: Killing The Planet

[RestoreGore]

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Want to help save the planet? Stop drinking bottled water.

[ideagarden]

1. Don't buy bottled anything!!!

It truly amazes me that people bye bottled water... wtf? Maybe it makes them feel special. They should include, soda, multi-color sports drinks, etc. What a waste of money and resources.

[sandyj999]

2. It's portable, that's why. n/t

[MelissaB]

8. Try one of these.

I bought 4 of these recently and love them.








http://www.reusablebags.com/store/stainless-steel-klean-kanteen-c-19_25_35.html?osCsid=9f89edc174f14e294c874b2aa6d098b2


They are expensive. I keep telling hubby somebody could make big $$ offering something like this reasonably.

[RedEarth]

12. Our family has four of them also.....

They are a little expensive, but tap water is a lot less expensive than bottled water. If a person needs or wants filtered water, a Brita filter works just fine.

[lizerdbits]

18. That's what I have (brita)

My water tastes horrible, I can't even make ice cubes out of it without ruining any beverage, and foods when cooking. Buying bottled never crossed my mind because it's so expensive aside from being wasteful. My water bill is about $150/year. That's a pretty short amount of time for using bottled when you use it for cooking (which I do a lot), I can't imagine what I'd be spending.

[paulkienitz]

6. turning up nose at tapwater = you are a jackass

People buying soda at least have the excuse that they're hooked into the sugar or something. Bottled water in a place with taps? No excuse, it's pure lameness with no argument on the other side. There isn't even an argument for taste or purity -- the bottling companies ADD minerals and salts, I suppose to make it seem more like springwater. Depending on your city the tapwater may actually be cleaner.

[stlsaxman]

20. "you gotta tell 'em- AQUAFINA IS TAPWATER!!!" Chucky Heston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mip7hqvKpqM

"We gotta stop 'em- somehow!"

[jwirr]

3. Is it still a waste if you live in a rural area and your water has so much

iron in it that it turns all your sinks, toilets and clothes orange? It also smells like a dead fish/swampy. This describes our water and that of our nearest neighbors.

[RestoreGore]

10. I say demand to be hooked up to a municipal system

They're doing it in Tennessee. I know there are many rural areas even in this country where it looks like the third world regarding water resources. That is why people need to be empowered to demand to be brought into the 21st century. In some cases I know that people also live in rocky areas where hook ups to municipal supplies would be difficult, but we just can't sit and let that be the reason for continuing to see people become ill from their source just to keep the corporations happy. That is why citizen action is so important. Has there been any action in your area to change that?

[jwirr]

22. Municipal is at least 8 miles away. However, you are right about

bottled water. If it is just coming out of someones tap anyhow then we could stop at a friends and fill our own bottles for nothing. I am interested in what harm besides the plastic throw away bottles this practice is contributing to the worlds problems. I never thought about it before.

[maxsolomon]

4. a bottle of water in another country is infinitely preferable to dysentery

[RestoreGore]

9. Unfortunately in some now, yes...

That's why we have to stand up to see funds go for what they should and expose privitization schemes abroad that are nothing more than scams that leave countries in more debt and struggling with high priced polluted water. And basically this OP was talking about America, where people seem to think they are so priviledged they have to drink from a designer water bottle because their tap water just isn't good enough or convenient enough for them. Those who don't give a damn that it is contributing to climate change and the mounds of garbage in our landfills, and even oil prices. Those who think they are so self important that they come before this planet. Those who have tap water but yet refuse to drink it because they have fallen for the marketing tactics of those seeking only to get their money... while these same companies use that money to take their water from underground streams in countries that are poor just to make more profits.

http://www.water.org.

Here is one organization working to see that those other countries have clean water which is a human right. And we can do it if we really want to.

[stlsaxman]

5. Thank you, RG! The "Instant Karma" was a nice touch...

Have you seen the works of Chris Jordan? It will stop your heart...

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

Plastic Bottles, 2007
60x120"

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

[NoGodsNoMasters]

7. Jesus.....

[RestoreGore]

11. Wow

Unbelievable. And yes, I think John Lennon sang it well... Instant Karma's getting us already.

[Yael]

13. Thanks, but I will stick with my 5gal jugs of fluoride-free water

I get enough in my toothpaste, I don't need it in my water putting me at risk of osteoporosis and the inevitable broken hips.

Direct linkage betweek the two, and for those who don't trust me and don't want to look it up, PM me and I can bury you in research links about it.

Brita/PUR filters do not filter out the fluoride and there is no where in this area where the water isn't fluoridated.

Until that happens, it is my 5gal jugs and my sports bottles.

[Squatch]

14. Three-and-1/2 minutes of non-sequitur after non-sequitur

[mudesi]

17. Do you know what a non sequitur is?

That video was three and a half minutes of fact after fact.

[Cybergata]

15. I always lugged reusable bottles, but now . . .

we put a water filter in our kitchen just for drinking water, and my husband has set up a system that the left over water is recycled to water the trees and plants.

[graywarrior]

16. Water in Florida tastes like sulphur. It's horrible.

Of course, Florida is out of water, so whatever comes out of the tap is questionable. Regardless, I use a tap filter.

Someone I met recently who spent a week in Sarasota from NH told me the water here caused her skin to get raw and hurt like hell. She looked as if she had 2nd degree burns.

[defendandprotect]

19. AND . . . the plastic from the bottles is leeching out into the water and into your body ---

Amazingly, they're still using PLASTIC tubes, etal in hospitals though they know they've contaminated health tests they were doing!!!

Now -- with extra shipping costs -- anything that was in bottles will be in plastic --

PAUL NEWMAN recently went to plastic for his salad dressings!!!

Probably gasoline/trucking costs made that happen!

What idiots are still drinking soda pop???

Remember when we were told you could recycle Plastic -- ????

PLASTIC is killing us ===

[bluescribbler]

21. Drink Beer

In glass bottles. Even beer cans are lined with plastic. Otherwise, the beer would eat away the aluminum, and you'd be drinking that. And if you drink local beer, there isn't as much fuel consumed bringing it to your local packie. Better yet, brew your own. I've used the same bottles a dozen times or more. :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: