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i'm just watching this panarama on bottled water, and some of the issues it is raising are things i've never actually thought about.
The fact that its carbon footprint is so much larger than tap water was quite astonishing to me, never thought about it like that before.
i dont usually drink bottled water as i have no problems with tap water at all...
have any of you bottled water drinkers ever thought about the consequences? or are you just part of the fad?
discuss. :thumb:
The fact that its carbon footprint is so much larger than tap water was quite astonishing to me, never thought about it like that before.
i dont usually drink bottled water as i have no problems with tap water at all...
have any of you bottled water drinkers ever thought about the consequences? or are you just part of the fad?
discuss. :thumb:
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I have however today bought two new cartridges for my brita filter so will use that instead
Nope. There is far more important things too worry about.
Tap water tastes like shite anyway. There is plenty of UK bottled water around, you don't have to buy French (Evian)
I was in the US last Christmas and the chlorine water was so disgusting I'd buy bottled rather than suffer the taste.
im not scot free tho because i do drink many things that come out of plastic bottles, i do try and reuse them at work when i can however.
The carbon footprint of it does concern me, also that it is soooo overpriced and I worry about it going stale as well! I know that last bit's weird
of course apart from bottled abroad right?
Don't know man, guess I've never been anywhere so bad I needed to drink bottled water, because I've only had tap water abroad.
Mind you not been much further than Tunisia
the plastic bottle is the main thing and so is keeping the bottling plant sterile mainly simply because it's water so anything can grow very quickly if it gets contaminated
thames water is generally pretty good quality in taste, in blind taste tests it does well compared to bottled water, the main issue is peoples' plumbing and/or image awareness
they just did a taste test on this proggy and one of the testers picked thames tap water as the most expensive, up against a bottle that cost £21 as well...who'd pay £21 for a bottle of water god knows, i'd personally slap them if i ever saw it.
LuckyStrike - I was watching the Alan Titchmarsh Show once and they had a bottle of water that was about £300 or something
No man, I've got a stoneware jug, pretty much the same thing people have been carrying water in for 1000's of years.
And yeah Franki, I realise there's places I'd be best to drink bottled water - just haven't been to any.
I despair when I see people buying bottled water in London...
- tap water tastes as good if not better
- tap water is more than 2,000 times cheaper per litre
- tap water is perfectly healthy
- bottle water can contain plastic particles
- it takes 7 litres of water to manufacture a 1lt. water bottle
- the carbon footprint and pollution created by its manufacture and transportation is massive and unnaceptable
And for those whose tap water is not so good, a Brita-filtered jug placed in the fridge will taste as good as bottled water.
There is no excuse for drinking bottled water at home for the immense majority of people in the UK. The price of it should be raised to reflect the environmental cost it causes.
thats the thing, its a fad, people think its the thing to do, even in my short lifetime the rise of bottled water is staggering, 15-20 years ago bottled water was a thing people didnt buy, apart from ponces with their perrier.
My friend has a water softener machine though and that does NOT make the water taste nice IMO. It makes it taste weird.
Evian is crap, but some of the cheaper highland spring waters are really nice.
I guess it depends on your taste. You cant deny bottled water is bad for the environment, but buying any drink thats packaged is really when you could just drink tap water.
It's been a bloody long fad though... so I don't think it can really be classed as one. I can't see it going away, either.
Not gonna get all holier than thou about the environmental impact though, because I drink more bottled stuff than most people; it's just stuff with some flavour. And as for the French issue, I expect that French water being shipped to London has a lower carbon footprint than highland water.
Just shows the power of marketing. People would rather pay 70p for a product, than get an almost identical substance out of the tap for free(ish).
There was a rumour that the plastics in the bottle (PET's) could break down over repeated usage but I'm fairly certain it was pointed out to be untruthful.
I only ever drink bottled water if I'm out and its cheap, I'd probably buy a can of coke if it was cheaper! Only exception is on a train if its going free.
I drink bottled water because
a) it's quicker and easier (or lazy) to keep 12 bottles in my bedroom than it is to go downstairs, especially at night when waking the dog up would be a problem.
b) I take all my pills before bed and I always forget if I don't have any water handy.
c) It encourages me to drink more during the day if I'm constantly walking around the house with one.
d) I recycle all bottles.
e) I hate the taste of tap water.