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amusedNo, I'm not talking about beer.
A number of reasons why you are better off drinking water from the tap instead of purchasing (over-marketed) bottled water.
My favorites cited reasons:
Like to carry it around? Purchase your own re-usable water bottle for less than the price of two "disposable" bottles!
Plus remember, all that jazz about fresh mountain water? Usually a load of bull. Do you remember where Pepsi was getting its bottled water? c'mon, people.
A number of reasons why you are better off drinking water from the tap instead of purchasing (over-marketed) bottled water.
My favorites cited reasons:
- Americans buy 28 billion water bottles a year, all that plastic and the energy used for manufacturing and transportation is very hard on the environment
- Why would you want to pay more for a product whose quality is worse than the water that flows from the faucet in your home?
- City tap water must meet standards for certain important toxic or cancer-causing chemicals, such as phthalate (a chemical that can leach from plastic, including plastic bottles); some in the industry persuaded FDA to exempt bottled water from the regulations regarding these chemicals.
- For those who feel tap water is any less clean than bottled water, filters may be purchased; buying filter cartridges once or twice a year requires much fewer resources than buying bottled water each day
Like to carry it around? Purchase your own re-usable water bottle for less than the price of two "disposable" bottles!
Plus remember, all that jazz about fresh mountain water? Usually a load of bull. Do you remember where Pepsi was getting its bottled water? c'mon, people.
