How Drinking Bottled Water Became a Thing
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How Drinking Bottled Water Became a Thing
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#2Love that last paragraph.
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#3Since last year, I have tried my best to avoid any drink that comes in a plastic bottle and as well as saving me a decent amount of money, I feel much better about not adding to the obscene amount of waste and the fact that when i do have a drink out, I am helping independents too rather than fueling the corporate monster..!
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#4Since last year, I have tried my best to avoid any drink that comes in a plastic bottle and as well as saving me a decent amount of money, I feel much better about not adding to the obscene amount of waste and the fact that when i do have a drink out, I am helping independents too rather than fueling the corporate monster..!
Bottled water is so expensive. Really adds up quickly. Never order it at restaurants. Tap water please.
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#5If places sold an empty bottle for 5c or whatever that you had to fill up by yourself at a tap, then that's what I would buy.
Sometimes you're out and you want something to drink but you don't have a container, bottled water is kind of an obvious choice. All the purity shit is just capitalist competition in action. And I still don't understand what is worse about it than bottled Coke or whatever.
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#6It's a well-known fact that New York City tap water is delicious, even compared to other municipal water supplies.
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#7I know expecting rigorous science from an entertainment program is always asking a bit much, but the Penn & Teller gourmet-water prank always struck me as flawed given the social dynamics at play. Most people in that situation are going to feel some social pressure to acknowledge some sort of qualities in what they are being served, whether from fear of appearing unsophisticated or simply out of a desire to be polite, even if what they're drinking does consciously taste like tap water to them.
Personally, while I don't buy any branded, single-serve waters, I do actually buy gallon jugs of house-brand "drinking water" from my local grocery store for the taste. Whatever minerals they add "for taste," I prefer it to tap or even spring water.
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#8Since last year, I have tried my best to avoid any drink that comes in a plastic bottle and as well as saving me a decent amount of money, I feel much better about not adding to the obscene amount of waste and the fact that when i do have a drink out, I am helping independents too rather than fueling the corporate monster..!
Bottled water is so expensive. Really adds up quickly. Never order it at restaurants. Tap water please.
I buy 36 bottles of water from Kroger at around $3.50 (plus 7% taxes). Taking one with me on my bike every weekday means they last around two months, at less than $2 per mo.
(Yes, I know it's better for the environment to save plastic. Kroger bottles are not as bad as others, as they feel as thin as a plastic bag, but still I plan to eventually phase them out, but not because of the $)
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#9The crazy thing about Fiji water is that it is actually bottled in Fiji and shipped around the world. So now even plain potable water can have a significant carbon footprint.
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#10It's a well-known fact that New York City tap water is delicious, even compared to other municipal water supplies.
While I feel that should have been mentioned, it still makes you wonder why people in NYC drink so much bottled water.