Bottled water a pointless waste of money

Don't be fooled by this recycling hype.Enjoy your bottled water & dump the plastic in the river for the swans..

Agree with you totally, and not to mention the environmental cost of transporting all this nonsense.

The idea of drinking treated sewage may be repellent but if properly treated it is 100% pure and safe. Nature recycles, and so should we.

I know someone who works at the water board and it is water from the mountains not treated sewage and if he thinks the water is good (and he drinks it ) it is good enough for me .

For me personally, bottled water tastes better than tap water.

Also when travelling in foreign countries I don't trust the tap water and would always drink bottled.

im doing a 9th grade report and im bored already give some interesting facts please before for I go zzzzz!

There is no evidence whatsoever that RE-USING plastic bottles and containers presents any hazard of chemical leaching. Using bottled water stored in a cupboard for a number of years would be a different issue but the formulation of PET bottles was changed to reduce the minimal levels of leaching. We are very fortunate to have a high standard of tap water in the UK and restaurants should be legally forced to supply tap water with a nominal service charge.

I prefer to reuse the bottles from bottled water, then refill them with tap water and put in the freezer. After a few hours the water is deliciously icy cold and doesn't taste like crap tap water, and if you leave it long enough to get a few ice chunks forming its even nicer. Then jsut drink that. I have a few bottles on rotation when I'm in the house so there's always ice cold water.

Bottled water is a huge scam, costly to the environment in many ways and costly to our own pockets.

We should boycott it, and we should also boycott restaurants and establishments which refuse to serve tap water on request, on of these being Sherwoods Indian Restaurant in Hall Green, Birmingham, where the manager did not even have the spine to speak to me about the policy he forces his staff to implement.

Since the introduction of the new security arrangements at airports it is not possible to pre-buy your in-flight drinking water and take it with you through security. They will confiscate it. So you are inside the security zone and you look for a supplier of this necessity [if you don't drink water when in the air you risk all kinds of nasties]. You find one, only one. There is no competition: there is only one supplier, and they know it. So they place a huge mark up on this essential product. This is a classick rip-off!

So you decide not to buy [that is your only option], and wait until you are on the plane. Surprise - Surprise they charge for water there too, at an even higher price.

Welcome to Britain the country of penniless paupers!

Thames Water? Do you honestly trust that institution? They have doubled my water rates in 2 years flat. I now have to drink rain water. I am not properly metered regarding my consumption. TW couldn't give a damn. They just want to make money, like everyone else is this Kafkaesque existence.

It is a triumph of modern marketing that people in the United Kingdom, with universal access to cheap, clean water in the home, choose to consume an average of 37 litres of bottled water per person per year.

Unfortunately, a litre of bottled mineral water generates 600 times more carbon dioxide than a litre of tap water, and the polythene terephthalate bottles tend to sit around in landfills for a long time. Which is why Thames Water and Friends of the Earth have launched a campaign in the UK to rehabilitate tap water in restaurants and bars.