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She *lies because of the adjective 'bottled'.

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Step one:

Buy a bottle.

Step Two:

Buy a Brita.

Step Three:

Use the two combined for a month, and spend less money then you would have buying plastic water bottles, without the need to recycle the plastic.

Also, I'm going to throw a *Fail up on this.

She really does fail. Hard.

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Does she know water comes from taps and is potable? Additionally all of her points are good and appropriate if you just remove the word bottled.

DEFINITELY PAID 4 PROPAGANDA

I don't drink tap water. Not because I don't think it's potable, I simply don't like the taste. And yes. It does have taste. People who say water has no taste are idiots.

Eh. If you want to pay for bottled water, be my guest.. just don't make me buy the shit.. like homeopathy.

We have a creek nearby. Two years ago the nearby plant that makes Listerene had an accident and the creek tasted minty fresh for at least a month. Last year a diesel fuel truck overturned and the creek smelled like diesel for 3 weeks. Hence my fondness for bottled water.

Are there efforts to take bottled water off the shelf? I know lots of people point out it is simply tap water that has been filtered. Sometimes a simple Britta like carbon filter, often a reverse osmosis filter system. Even after the expense of a RO system you would save money over the long term and can be cooking with the stuff, using it for coffee, tea... I would think that even the ones from springs have to be sent through a RO system to kill microbes. Anyhow, I don't recall ever hearing of people trying to take bottled water off the shelf.

There was a book recently released and hyped on the absurdity of our bottled water use. I first heard about it through the author's interview on fresh air. He goes through the basic argument in about 20 minutes there:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126833795

The too long didn't listen version is

1) Bottled water adds about 70 million plastic bottles to our landfills every day. We recycle a relatively small fraction of what we use.

2) Bottled water consumption leads people to disregard our public water infrastructure, which is actually quite excellent, but won't stay that way if we don't maintain it. But why pay taxes for a service you don't use?

3) Bottled water is regulated differently from municipal water. While municipal water supplies are tested for safety a dozen times a day, and shut down at the slightest irregularity, bottled water plants are inspected as infrequently as once a year. The author has plenty of scary anecdotes to share on that front.

4) Bottled water manufacturers are engaged in a very successful disinformation campaign to convince us that tap water isn't safe and to convince local governments not to bother putting water fountains in public places.

I don't know if that author was pushing for an outright ban, but surely some small section of the environmental movement wouldn't mind seeing it happen.

Wait what? Is this really for real? Like.. not a parody? HUH???

They have turned the verisimilitude up to 11, it's really hard to detect the sarcasm.