Should We Stop Drinking Bottled Water?

Question

Think about it. The plastic is a petrolium product. Think of the trucks that deliver it.

Answer 1

I'm using bottled water now, because it's sterile, to prepare the formula for the baby.

There have been cases of people messing with bottled water, tho, so I always make sure it gives the right 'fizz' when I open it, and taste it afterwards.

However, soon as the baby can drink from the tap, bottles are gone from my house.

Oil to make the bottle, oil to deliver it to the water plant, oil to carry the bottled water to the retailer, oil to carry it home.

Not to mention oil to make the trucks carrying all these bottles.

I saw one of those caraffes with the ion exchange cartridge at Lidl the other day and nearly picked it up. I'll get one when I'm sure I can find a steady supply of cartridges. Yeah, I know it will mean disposing of cartridges, but it's nowhere near the same volume and our tap water is so hard it would give us kidney stones.

Answer 2

Everything seems to give you cancer these days. Now they say bottle water does.

I say if you usually drink it don't stop.

Just make sure you recycle.

Answer 3

I love drinking bottled water.  And for those truckers, it's thanks to ppl who drink bottled water that they have jobs.  Bottled water tastes better and is safer.  We had crypto and prescription medications in our "tap" water.  Tap water is free, but not safe!

Answer 4

No I will not stop drinking bottled water.  If anyone is that environmentally concerned they wouldn't be on the internet right now.

Answer 5

i dunno about other ppl but i sure did...lol

those "FOREVER IN A LANDFILL" commercials man...really got to me.

Answer 6

I dont really care about how I get my water, as long as i get it inside me. I'll suck it out of the tap if i have to, the bottles are just more convenient to have around... if im getting any weird chemicals inside of me, i havent felt their effects yet!

Answer 7

Yes. everytime you drink bottled water some of the plastic particles of the bottle mix  with the water. those particles are very unhealthy for you.

Answer 8

Well, if you live in a place where the water is clean enough to drink, then yes. I do and I only drink bottled water when i have no alternatives. I also try to reuse the bottle whenever possible.

Answer 9

I make it a policy to only drink bottled water when I have to because they will end up in the landfill.

Answer 10

pvc is bad for the health therefore we should stop drinking bottled water. A filter in our home is the best alternative

Answer 11

The "fluoride" being dumped into tap water is not real fluoride. It is actually fluorosilicic acid, a toxic waste produced by many industrial companies in enourmous quantities. That waste would cost millions to dispose of normally. This is why there is enourmous corporate pressure on the EPA to keep fluoride dumped into the water system. Fluoridation was proven to damage the brain, and increase levels of lead in children's blood and thus lead to behavioral disorders and brain damage. Why do you think there are so many americans with neurological disorders such as depression, dementia, and Alzeimer's of a sudden in the last 50 years? Fluoride also impairs normal thyroid function, and attacks the bones. And guess what? Even without the fluoride, tap water is dangerous. It contains dangerous levels of arsenic, chlorine and various pharmaceutical waste-products.

The irony is that it is illegal to dump toxic waste like fluorosilicic acid into any body of water, but it is perfectly legal and even encouraged to dump it first into the body of humans.

And that's not all. Most bottled water contains fluoride aswell. The only brand that I know of that doesn't is Evian, which takes its water from the french alps. Perrier also doesn't contain any fluoride.

In the future, when people look back at the history that is unfolding before our eyes, this will be seen as a time of insanity similar to hitler's in some ways: Complete lies and absurdities, being embraced as truths because of sheer stupidity.

Answer 12

Bottled water seems to be the most pointless and environmenally damaging product ever!  I mean seriously...its a joke.  Water is carted all around the world just to get to use in bottles for us to consume.  We have a tap/fosset!  

In terms of health though bottled water is apparently no different.  One thing I do worry about is in England apparently fluoride is going to be introduced and has been in places into our water....if this happens I think I might just have to buy me a water distiller.

Answer 13

Bottled water is more expensive than petroleum but you dont hear many people complaining about THAT.

Stop drinking bottled water only if you intend not throwing money away.

Answer 14

Bottled water is the biggest corporate ripoff ever.  Every scientific test has shown that tap water is just as safe as bottled water, yet Americans pay a thousand times the cost for bottled water from big companies.  Forget the environmental stuff, but save your money.

Answer 15

Tap water was the only kind of water we had as children,as an oldie people my generation don't on a whole buy the stuff, if the water in your area is not to good buy a filter jug ,enjoy each drink and think of your contribution to the environment.