Bottled water isn't actually any better for you
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Bottled water, the truth
Some companies actually sell bottled tap water which they re-filter. How do they get away with this? Ok, good luck to the enterprising individuals but I think it verges on scandalous.
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Bottled water, it's just another pointless way to throw your money away. The public has been duped into buying this stuff, which often is manufactured in industrial estates despite pictures of idyllic vales appearing on the labels.
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| 29-3-2008 | 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 wa...more | Underdog |
| 16-3-2008 | 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. | H2O view |
| 16-3-2008 | 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 ...more | MikeP |
| 23-2-2008 | Tim O makes the most vaild points, the appalling harm that bottled water does to the environment. I have been offered Evian and Perrier (French) water on the other side of the world. It may be cost effective and a nice little profit earner for the French and for the restaurateurs who offer it but ...more | MikeP |
| 23-2-2008 | it tastes better. We don't drink any old rubbish water like you lot. | High quality H20 |
| 14-12-2007 | Tim - you obviously haven't tasted Northampton tap water!! You just KNOW that it is recycled sewage, because it tastes of chlorine. Thankfully I don't live there, only work there. In our village the tap water tastes delicious, and is obviously not recycled wee wee, thank goodness. Howeve...more | Nikki |
| 14-12-2007 | Bottled water is a ripoff. If you have crappy water at home I can see purchasing large bottles of water, but the individual bottles...nuts! People complain about gas prices, but to get a gallon a gasoline, a dinosaur died several million years ago, then someone has to discover the dinosaur graveyar...more | Tim O |
| 03-8-2007 | As far a s Tap water is concerned.. Id rather take my chances with bottled Im afraid than drink water with additives like Fluoride which may be doing severe harm to us all despite benefit to teeth and also the writer has obviously never tasted London Tap water.. its so toxic your mouth ends up super...more | Paul |
| 08-7-2007 | You should come to Herefordshire. Our tapwater tastes like nothing you've ever tried before. Almost like a combination of machine oil and something that you can't quite put your finger on. | Yokel Radio |
| 14-4-2007 | The entire mineral water industry is built on the consumers' mistaken belief in the conspiracy theory that municipal water is unfit to drink.
You've been had. | I've got bottle |
| 13-4-2007 | For what we pay for and to dispose of water I think the Europeans pretty much have it right. buy bottled water to drink and use minimally treated water, I assume cheaper, for ablutions etc. What is the logic in treating water to a drinkable state and then just flush it down the toilet?
A funner not...more | Shy Vera |
| 03-2-2007 | Tap water can contain female hormones and high levels of chlorine, I spose its ok if you just need to have a small cup when you wake up in the middle of the night but would you want all those strange chemicals ect entering your body on a regular basis? Also I guess it depends on you area, some areas...more | Dodie x |
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