My mother always bought bottled water. It was normal that we had about 2 chests of water bottles at home.
I never did this after I got my own flat. Too lazy to carry bottles and to greedy to pay that much money for it.
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#12What about flavoured water?
Flavoured water is just soda with some marketing added.
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#13I drink Contrex bottled water, because its mineral content provides me with 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre. I balance the negative impact of bottle water (which I acknowledge and dislike) with the fact I am vegan.
> 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre
58% of calcium relative to what? 58% of the litre is calcium?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tap water is drinkable anywhere in Japan.
I second this, havnt had issues drinking water anywhere. I'm grandparents use a tap filter, but I think that's more mental than anything.
I don't remember the source, but I recall reading that, paradoxically, tap water in cities is much better quality than bottled water, due to stricter controls. Probably doesn't taste as good, but you can be quite sure it won't harm you.
The tap water from the small village in the Italian country I was born in is the best I've ever had, but I drink straight from the tap in London without any issues, except when I need to satisfy my craving for sparkling water.
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#15I drink Contrex bottled water, because its mineral content provides me with 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre. I balance the negative impact of bottle water (which I acknowledge and dislike) with the fact I am vegan.
> 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre 58% of calcium relative to what? 58% of the litre is calcium?
Yes. And you need a pickaxe to drink from your glass.
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#16Not all bottled water is sold by PepsiCo. Not all tap water is as healthy as alkaline spring water. Tap water is often going through tons of piping, heavily florinated or chlorinated, and can be tainted with microbes. (Hence the need for halogens.) Faucet water is good for some things. It still is beneficial to have sanitary water for boiling food, bathing or showering. But some of the tap water in America is quite p…
I moved from Scotland (great tap water) to Barcelona (crap tap water). I bought bottled water to begin with but found the amount of plastic in the trash depressing so I bought a water filter. No carrying water home and less trash and probably works out cheaper.
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#17I drink Contrex bottled water, because its mineral content provides me with 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre. I balance the negative impact of bottle water (which I acknowledge and dislike) with the fact I am vegan.
> 58% Calcium and 19% Mangnesium per litre 58% of calcium relative to what? 58% of the litre is calcium?
Ca 468mg/l
Mg 74.5mg/l
Percentages are RDA.
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#18At my last job, everyone drank several bottles of water a day (freely available in the fridge). And they couldn't be bothered walking the empty bottles to the kitchen where there was a recycling bin - straight to the trash.
This, even though they added filtering to already good NYC tap water. Only myself and one other person bothered to fill up a glass instead of take a bottle.
I sometimes feel like Americans go out of their way to be wasteful. Like it is some sort of badge of honor or expression of wealth to be able to do this or have a giant SUV that gets 3mpg.
Edit: don't get me started on the Keurig machine!
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#19I don't like namedropping brands, but I bought a Sigg water bottle about 5 years ago, cost me 20 euros, it's rock solid and it just works as a container. It could be any other brand really, just anything with a large enough volume that you fill it in the morning and drink from it all day long before washing it at night, leaving it to dry and starting over in the morning. It's a good system.
I do the same, but with a good old glass of water. These are under rated I believe
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#20At my last job, everyone drank several bottles of water a day (freely available in the fridge). And they couldn't be bothered walking the empty bottles to the kitchen where there was a recycling bin - straight to the trash. This, even though they added filtering to already good NYC tap water. Only myself and one other person bothered to fill up a glass instead of take a bottle. I sometimes feel like Americans go out…
Status symbols are inherently wasteful. Waste and the situation implied by that waste (high status and affluence) is their function. I believe this is generally true across cultures, but it's often easier to see them for what they are in someone else's culture.