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Bottled Water Sucks

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ThaLorax
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Cool graphic I found off StubleUpon:
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May 19 2010 1:19AM
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lineskier10
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no shit anyone that buys bottle water is an absolute retard
May 19 2010 1:20AM
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Mr.Panda
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I resent that. We are on a well at my house but the well has an unusually high iron and salt content that normal filters or the aquifier things can't get out. Like, you like an ice cube it tastes salty.
May 19 2010 1:23AM
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ThaLorax
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a lot of people buy bottled water..... hense, why there's huuuge a market for it....

just tryin to spread tha werd mang.
May 19 2010 1:23AM
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ThaLorax
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what the fuck are you talking about greg?
May 19 2010 1:25AM
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Mr.Panda
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Where I live we have a well. Our well somehow has an huge excess of iron and salt content in it. And we can't get anything to truly filter it all out (Brita pitchers don't do it, the things you attach to the tap only last 2 months if we use them) so we buy bottled water from Costco to use for drinking.
May 19 2010 1:27AM
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lineskier10
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ok sorry panda anyone that buys bottled water to drink that doesnt have messed up tap or well water is an absolute retard, and im just saying this based on price, its not worth it
May 19 2010 1:30AM
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Mr.Panda
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No shit it isn't worth it. It sucks because we end up with like 40 bottles every time the recycle comes around to pick it up. And my insane Japanese mom freaks out when I use the tap water when I am in an hurry.
May 19 2010 1:33AM
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BMB
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this is very interesting and all but i am too ambiguosly focused on my company/ math final right now
May 19 2010 1:33AM
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HenniferLopez
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welcome to the first 18 years of my life. when I go home now I'll parch to death before I drink my parents nasty well water. but I usually just bring a couple of nalgenes from my new home when I go back. it holds me over.
May 19 2010 1:35AM
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Mr.Panda
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I am 21 and still live there on breaks.
May 19 2010 1:41AM
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Rachy
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Haven't you heard? Boxed Water is BETTER!



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Only downside... it kinda tastes like cardboard...
May 19 2010 1:49AM
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Joshua.
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haha that's interesting.


you only gots 3 posts til yout 1000th, better spend em wisely
May 19 2010 2:02AM
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clandemush
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slightly irrelevant:

kids at my school used to print out fake water bottle labels(usually vitamin water) and replace the text on the label with answers to a test, and put them back on the bottle
May 19 2010 2:05AM
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Schlop
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I did it once, it's good for equations
May 19 2010 2:09AM
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Mr.Panda
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Good Eats is talking about tap water and bottled water right now. Creepy coincidence is creepy.
May 19 2010 2:15AM
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beezey
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I drink out of my kitchen sink, mountain water is always delicious; I carry it in water bottles with me, the aluminum ones.
May 19 2010 2:24AM
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TPalms
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I agree with the OP. Too many people drink bottled water out of convenience and end up creating a ton of unnecessary waste. Where you live that you have to get your water out of a well? I've never really had the experience so I won't judge, but couldn't you get gallon jugs from your local grocer or kroger or something? I feel like it would make more sense to have a few gallon containers of water than a bunch of little bottles. I dunno, just my opinion.
May 19 2010 2:32AM
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baethoven
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I just had to write a paper on this last week. It's sad that they can get away with selllinga nearly free commodity for way more, without more people complaining about it. I haven't really had bottled water constantly stocked at my house for a couple of years now. We just fill up cups or bottles of water from our fridge. Once and awhile on a road trip or when i'm out to eat i'll get a bottled water, but I try to avoid it.
May 19 2010 2:34AM
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clandemush
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yeah seemed like a good idea. i tried it once but wasnt tech enough to make it look anything close to official and decided not to risk it
May 19 2010 2:42AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Thats why you gotta live way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, groundwater around my old house was amazing. Only Paradise base on Mt Rainier has better tasting water.
May 19 2010 3:00AM
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rickroller
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dopers with 1000 poasts
May 19 2010 3:01AM
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powderhound100
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The water at stevens at the top of the rope tow probably beats it, best water ever.
May 19 2010 4:22AM
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theabortionator
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It really does. I only buy it for shows and festivals so I don't die. I just filter tap water form the well and it's good. I think if I ever move to a city I'll get a reverse osmosis filter.
May 19 2010 4:33AM
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Dan.
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I never understood why people bought bottled water.


and then I tried drinking tap water in new mexico.
May 19 2010 5:19AM
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zagfan5
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hi res info rocks!

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May 19 2010 5:59AM
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Dan.P
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Bro rain water tanks is where its at, kind of tastes like dirt and leaves which sounds gross but its fucking good
May 19 2010 6:09AM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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'takes 3 bottles worth of water to produce one bottle of water'

thats fuckin absurd

May 19 2010 6:21AM
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IceCreamer
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NYC tap is prime.
May 19 2010 6:59AM
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pmills
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'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder
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WASHINGTON—Wishing to dispose of the empty plastic container, and failing to spot a recycling bin nearby, an estimated 30 million Americans asked themselves Monday how bad throwing away a single bottle of water could really be.

"It's fine, it's fine," thought Maine native Sheila Hodge, echoing the exact sentiments of Chicago-area resident Phillip Ragowski, recent Florida transplant Margaret Lowery, and Kansas City business owner Brian McMillan, as they tossed the polyethylene terephthalate object into an awaiting trash can. "It's just one bottle. And I'm usually pretty good about this sort of thing."

"Not a big deal," continued roughly one-tenth of the nation's population.

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According to the inner monologue of millions upon millions of citizens, while not necessarily ideal, throwing away one empty bottle probably wouldn't make that much of a difference, and could even be forgiven, considering how long they had been carrying it around with them, the time that could be saved by just tossing it out right here, and the fact that they had bicycled to work once last July.

In addition, pretty much the entire states of Missouri and New Mexico calmly reassured themselves Monday that they definitely knew better than to do something like this, but admitted that hey, nobody is perfect, and at least they weren't still using those horrible aerosol cans, or just throwing garbage directly on the ground.

All agreed that disposing of what would eventually amount to 50 tons of thermoplastic polymer resin wasn't the end of the world.

"It's not like I don't care, because I do, and most of the time I don't even buy bottled water," thought Missouri school teacher Heather Delamere, the 450,000th caring and progressive individual to have done so that morning, and the 850,000th to have purchased the environmentally damaging vessel due to being thirsty, in a huge rush, and away from home. "It's really not worth beating myself up over."

"What's one little bottle in the grand scheme of things, you know?" added each and every single one of them.

Monday's plastic-bottle-related dilemma wasn't the only environmental quandary facing millions of citizens across the country. An estimated 20 million men and women wondered how wasteful leaving a single lightbulb on all night really was, while more than 40 million Americans asked themselves if anyone would actually notice if they just turned up the heat a few degrees instead of walking all the way downstairs and getting another blanket.

Likewise, had they not been so tired, and busy, and stressed, citizens making up the equivalent of three major metropolitan areas told reporters that they probably wouldn't have driven their minivans down to the corner store.

"Relax," thousands upon thousands of Americans quietly whispered to themselves as they tossed two articles of clothing into an empty washing machine and turned it on. "What are you so worried about?"
May 19 2010 7:42AM
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pmills
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May 19 2010 7:43AM
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Hoppy
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So is it ok to buy bottled mineral water if you can afford it and recycle the bottle after?





May 19 2010 9:11AM
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srwinnsuco
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May 19 2010 9:18AM
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srwinnsuco
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bah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4

whole video coming out about the subject
May 19 2010 9:18AM
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Alkyy
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Refuse>Reduce>Reuse>Recycle in that order, best is to refuse to buy it then fewer will be made, recycling takes a good amount of energy in that process so it isnt ideal.  And honestly your mineral water is probably tap water from nyc somewhere which is straight up resiviour water from the catskills with almost no filtration.  We used to have horrible water at my parents house, we would go to some of the natural springs around here and fill up a bunch of jugs, takes about 15 minutes to do and you have the most delisous drinking water ever for the week.
May 19 2010 9:38AM
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PhaedeD
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i didnt read any of this thread but i will say that plastic water bottles take up around 1% of all the worlds land fills... thats a pretty high percentage just for one thing.
May 19 2010 9:46AM
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Hoppy
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No, mine is 5000 year old English water thats been slowly filtered, collecting lovely minerals along the way. mmmmmmmm




I drink it if im not at home and want a drink. I aint sorry about it.

Oh and coca cola tried to market dasani water in the UK. They failed and left, as they were basically selling water from the river Thames.
May 19 2010 10:23AM
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spruitm
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They could also help a lot by making more efficient  bottle shapes, squares.  look at this

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the rest of the project is here http://designfabulous.blogspot.com/2010/03/eco-coke-bottle-design.html
May 19 2010 10:46AM
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Hoppy
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^^ thats a great design.

And brings up the point its not just water bottles that are thrown away.
May 19 2010 10:54AM
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andrew.
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the water in my house has a ton of sulfur which makes it smell like rotting eggs. so we either buy water bottles or we use a brita. i personally dont like water bottles just because my moms a penny pincher and buys the brand x water bottles from aldis or something, so they taste just as bad as our water, and according to that picture in the OP they could be just as gross.
May 19 2010 10:54AM
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987321654hgfd
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Reverse Osmosis
May 19 2010 11:34AM
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tommycat
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probably the reason they were comparing bottled water to tap water and not well water.... your argument is irrelevant.
May 19 2010 1:36PM
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ECB
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Have the same problem at my house......It's at certain times of the year, and the water softner doesnt always help, so we always stock up one big bottles of bottled water, however, we do recycle them
May 19 2010 1:38PM
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HenniferLopez
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its also interesting how the op's picture didn't mention the fossil fuels that go into transporting the water...thats a huge factor in it..
May 19 2010 1:39PM
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yellav
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reverse osmosis filter and nalgenes
May 19 2010 1:43PM
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skiminnesota
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lets take lemons, and make lemonade!

for example, i agree that people who purchase waterbottles from gas stations are retards. not because i give a damn about the environmental aspect. but because frankly, theyre to expensive.


However, all the people that purchase water are purchasing one alternative to carbonated soft drinks. water is far more healthy than these carbonated soft drinks, less obesity = less strain on americas health infrastructure.
May 19 2010 2:25PM
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i0z
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where the hell is bottled water $10 for a gallon?
May 19 2010 2:38PM
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Proze
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hahahahahahahahaha hahaha nice job completely buying into some ones marketing scam, there is no new water, every last drop of it has been around for millions and millions of years, were are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank.

As for my H2O preference, Murray Island well water, well goes down into candian bedrock under the st lawrence river!!!!!!!
May 19 2010 2:47PM
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neutralzombie
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what really grinds my gears, is that there are paper and garbage cans at my school and people still put the paper in the garbage can. HOLY FUCK.
May 19 2010 2:48PM
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Dan.
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one 20 oz bottle of aquafina costs 1.50.

128 oz in a gallon

128/20 = 6.4

6.4 x 1.50$ = 9.60$

and thats for aquafina, which is tap water in a bottle, not even a premium brand like Evian or Fiji.
May 19 2010 2:54PM
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Scolson
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Am I the only one that can't stand the taste of bottled water?
May 19 2010 2:55PM
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