Evian contains too much water.

[mistermack]

Rain Postpones Play on Day 1 of Evian Championship

Looks like they can't bottle it fast enough.

Anybody here buy bottled water?

[tattuchu]

I've never understood the point of buying bottled water, not when water is free. It dunt make sense

[mistermack]

I've never understood the point of buying bottled water, not when water is free. It dunt make sense

I've never bought it, but I have used it on occasions.
They were giving it away free when Gloucester's treatment plant at Tewkesbury got flooded. You could take as much as you liked from supermarket car parks. So I did. My garage was nearly full of it.
I was giving it away to the family in ten and twenty packs for ages after.

And I also get natural spring water from Malvern when I go that way. I have half a dozen of those great big water-cooler bottles, and I fill them up at the constantly running spout. The Malvern springs are famous.
When I moved to where I live now, the water was shite. It was the condition of the mains. If you turned the bath tap on full, it would turn brown. It's been repaired since and the water is ok now, but the Malvern water is good stuff and I still use it for drinking.
I wouldn't pay for it though.

[tattuchu]

Ah. I could understand if your tap water was lousy, or you liked water from a particularly good source. But most, if not all, bottled water is nothing special. It seems like a gimmick to me, just a money-making scheme.
I think the only time I've bought bottled water is when it came with a meal at a fast food joint. I might get water instead of soda, that sort of thing.

[Ayaan]

It's rare for me to buy a bottled water. I take a reuseable water bottle to work and fill it from the tap in the lunch room. When we take a road trip, I try to do the same thing. If I forget, I will buy a bottle of water and keep reusing the bottle for the duration.

I've never understood why people get so upset about the possibility of empty plastic water bottles in landfills, but not about the soda, juice, milk, tea, etc bottles that wind up in the same landfill.

[MiM]

On travel, either because tap water tastes like crap (like wherever I have been in the USA, but also some places in Europe, even Finland), or because it is likely to make me seriously ill.

I am spoiled with super good tap water at home, so ther's absolutely no need to buy bottled for normal use.

[Tyrannical]

I've never understood the point of buying bottled water, not when water is free. It dunt make sense

I know, but my wife makes me buy it. I just refill an empty bottle with tap water.

[mistermack]

If you want the convenience of a bottle of water, it's actually more healthy to fill it from the tap, if your tap water is of normal quality.
There was a study done on the chemicals that come out of the plastic of the bottles into bottled water, and it was found to be a small, but measurable health risk. If you use the same plastic bottle, and keep re-using it, I would think that anything that was going to come out would be gone before long.

Even though the mains are now fixed where I live, the Malvern water is MUCH softer than the tap water.
In fact, the spring that I use has much softer water than the springs on the other side of the hills. The locals who live there all favour that spring, and the visitors go to the others.

It certainly doesn't fur up the kettle, like the tap water used to. But still, I wouldn't buy it, unless the tap water was unuseable and I had no access to free spring water.

[laklak]

I get filtered water from those Glacier Water machines you see at supermarkets, they use a reverse osmosis filter to remove the fluoride and chlorine. Our tap water isn't bad tasting but it's heavily fluoridated, and Mrs. Lak has decided it's bad for you. I don't worry about it, I'll be dead before it kills me anyway, but if there's one thing I've learned it's when momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy. I'm going to install a reverse osmosis system for our drinking water someday. Maybe. If I get around to it.

OK, probably not.

[mistermack]

I doubt if fluoride has any negative health effects, as a lot of studies were done before it was added to water.
But it can turn the teeth of children permanently brown, if they get too much when they are growing.
Having said that, kids who get too much usually get it from swallowing toothpaste, not from the water. But it all counts.

People do need to teach their kids to rinse it and not swallow toothpaste, if they want to be sure to avoid staining in their teeth.

[laklak]

But but but but Sodium Fluoride is a precursor to Sarin gas!

That was actually one of Mrs. Lak's objections, but she's got big tits so I let it slide.

[mistermack]

she's got big tits so I let it slide.

I've seen video of that, but I've never tried it. It looks like fun though.

[Svartalf]

I've never understood the point of buying bottled water, not when water is free. It dunt make sense

a) tap water ain't free
b) taste some kinds of tap water and you get why people buy better tasting bottles of water.

[JimC]

I've never understood the point of buying bottled water, not when water is free. It dunt make sense

a) tap water ain't free
b) taste some kinds of tap water and you get why people buy better tasting bottles of water.

Luckily, Melbourne tap water is excellent...

And, although not technically free, the cost of the amount of tap water one would actually drink per week would be measured in cents, not dollars...

[Svartalf]

Paris (at least my neighbourhood) iss crappy, I drink tapwater all the time but I has to flavour it with lemonade, or tea, coffee, etc.