Community | August 20, 2009 | 13 comments

Do You Know What's In Your Bottled Water?

source: http://www.dietcrusher.com/bottled-water/

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Bottled water is one the fastest growing beverage industries in the world. In the U.S. alone, people go through over 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour of the day!

Bottled Water is Big Business.

But with that growth, has come tremendous criticism.

Is bottled water really better?
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13 comments // Do You Know What's In Your Bottled Water?

  • Day2Day1nSociety
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      Day2Day1nSociety  

    • Why wont people just buy a cheap water purifier for the kitchen sink (anybody can find one between the prices of $9.99 to $25.00 and if your a fancy big spender buy the overly expensive kind then),but if you can't afford a sink water purifier then just mildly boil your tap water and filter it with a coffee filter with extra pin hole's through a strainer.

    • 2 years ago
  • msumonica
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      msumonica  

    • to be honest, i would like to see the emergence of filling stations spun from local filtered well water that can be easily access. if i had to pay for water, i'd rather pay for that. the issue isn't the water itself, although i do think that it is absurd that we've screwed up conservation to the point where selling something as abundant as water has become SO profitable. but i do take issue with the considerable amount of waste that comes from the production and distribution of the water. which is where most activists criticism lies. i bought a brita pitcher to share with the girls on my floor in the dorm and yet i'm the only one who uses it. my roomate will at least refill her water bottle a few times before throwing it away, but i think our convenience culture has caused us to detach from the reality of the impact of some of the decisions we make to the detriment of not just our environment, but also to those people who must settle for substandard quality because they can't afford to compete. i think that's part of the reason that people allow us to continue to corrupt the water in our own back yards, because it drives up the demand and thus the revenue for something as simple as drinking water. i just wonder how high the cost of bottled water would have to go before people began demanding a change.

    • 2 years ago
  • ecofuture
  • ajiacoysancocho
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      ajiacoysancocho  
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    • Plastic that doesn't biodegrade, fills up landfills, and above all, can cause illness is used routinely for the sake of convenience.

      My city's tap water goes through countless procedures to purify it, and its from a relatively clean river. Still, people pay to drink glorified tap water with minerals. (Dasani and Aquafina)

      Two simple solutions are possible, but not enough use them. You can install a tap water filter on any faucet. Pitchers that filter work fine as well.

      Then get a metal, reusable canteen. Won't cause birth defects like some substances will. Reusing plastic bottles have a negative health effect.

      I've attached a website with some interesting information.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • belowthesurface
  • ecofuture
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      ecofuture  
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    • Only 20 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States are recycled and the larger quantity discarded by consumers has exacerbated this problem. To pronounce in numbers, annually around 1.5 million tons of plastic are expended in the bottling… not to forget the energy consumed in manufacture and transportation.

      “People need to think about all the unnecessary energy costs that go into making a bottle of water,” said Peter Gleick, an expert on water policy and director of the Pacific Institute in Oakland. “It would be like filling up a quarter of every bottle with oil,” he added.

    • 2 years ago
  • mycall306
  • Skatt4u
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  • Krisard
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      Krisard  

    • Yep, kind of counterintuitive to think bottled water could be worse for you than tap water. We trust these companies to deliver the goods with the same result as when we trust our government.

    • 2 years ago
  • airinmagoc
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