Evian spells Naive backwards.Do you buy bottled water?
By Winterishere
@thedevilinme (3904)
Northampton, England
March 9, 2018 4:23pm CST
I was in my local supermarket today and there were 13 bands of bottled water.....13! We all know bottled water is the biggest marketing scam since printer ink but yet still people buy it. Its water. They know its water. It’s the stuff that comes out of your tap but people want to believe in marketing so they don’t feel guilty and stupid for buying a product they think is going to make them a better person. In fact the whole point of marketing is to make people feel inadequate for not having something they don’t need so they go out and buy it. They don’t need to buy bottled spring water. It’s no healthier than tap anywhere in England. Young women think it will make their skin softer and younger and so stuff one in their bag, paying £1 for water worth 1 penny from the tap that will surely have the same effect. It’s crazy!
It takes six litres of water to get one bottle of spring water to the super market floor. We all know many of those bottles end up floating in the ocean killing marine life. To buy bottled water is simply selfish, especially when some women in the third world on International Women’s Day had to walk 8 miles just to get less than pleasant water from the well to survive. In Cape Town that city has almost run dray as global warming accelerates and people refuse to change their decadent habits around resources. A major city is 4 weeks away from water Armageddon. How stupid can we get!
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
9 Mar 18
But if you live in this country, drinking from tap is a stupid thing to do. If you don't want to end up in the hospital, don't drink from the tap.
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@FourWalls (62120)
• United States
10 Mar 18
In a word, NO.
And naive is so correct: during the hurricane in Houston, Texas last year, stores were running out of bottled water, and the people on the news had to remind people they could just turn on their tap and fill jugs with water.
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@Madshadi (8849)
• Brussels, Belgium
10 Mar 18
Although I know where bottled water comes from, I trust it is tested and more safe than water from the old pipes that I have at home. And the plastic waste in this country is being recycled. But you make valid points to which I agree
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
10 Mar 18
Our tap water comes from the Lake of Lugano, I refuse to drink that water, no matter how many times it has been filtered. I know from where the bottled water I buy comes from, I have seen their plants and I have the water delivered to my door, NOT in plastic bottles, but glass bottles. I know it is expensive, but to drink garbage I can turn on my tap.
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
10 Mar 18
@thedevilinme I used to drink the tap water in Milan, when I was young it was safe to drink. Now it smells pretty bad.
@thedevilinme (3904)
• Northampton, England
10 Mar 18
Proper little prIncess of Italy ;-)
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@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
10 Mar 18
i get it free at work.
the only reason i would buy bottled water,if i did,is because our tap water tastes so foul it'd be an improvement.
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@Shiva49 (26200)
• Singapore
10 Mar 18
I avoid bottled water also known as mineral water in countries like India.
Even in places where tap water is not good to drink we have inbuilt water purifiers with Reverse Osmosis and such to make it safer to drink.
Bottled water should be avoided whenever we can - siva
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