do you drink bottled water? if so, look at this.

[mrsleeve]

Whatever marketing fuckhead came up with the idea of selling people water in a bottle, is a nutless waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles monkey and should BURN IN FUCKING HELL!!!!! I hate marketers, all they do is to try to decive people into buying WORTHLESS SHIT they dont need so some giant corporation can make money. There should be a hunting season for marketers and corporate executives. it is about time we declare open season on these pencil pushing, liars, crooks and thieves.

Why do you hate America??????

[Jand3rson]

I only drink bottled water when I'm not in Bend. Other than that, tap water for me!

This. The water here is AMAZING. Nothing like living on top of thousands of years of volcanic rock to purify the SHIT out of our water.

Anywhere else I go, the water tastes like ass. Ours is the best I've ever had.

[pureaudio]

Whatever marketing fuckhead came up with the idea of selling people water in a bottle, is a nutless waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles monkey and should BURN IN FUCKING HELL!!!!! I hate marketers, all they do is to try to decive people into buying WORTHLESS SHIT they dont need so some giant corporation can make money. There should be a hunting season for marketers and corporate executives. it is about time we declare open season on these pencil pushing, liars, crooks and thieves.

I can think of many great reasons to have bottled water so I would hardly call it worthless. As far as wanting someone to burn in hell for coming up with bottled water, well you are just retarded.

[Wiglaf]

Whatever marketing fuckhead came up with the idea of selling people water in a bottle, is a nutless waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles monkey and should BURN IN FUCKING HELL!!!!! I hate marketers, all they do is to try to decive people into buying WORTHLESS SHIT they dont need so some giant corporation can make money. There should be a hunting season for marketers and corporate executives. it is about time we declare open season on these pencil pushing, liars, crooks and thieves.

no, they are true capitalists

[ALYKZANDYR]

Whatever marketing fuckhead came up with the idea of selling people water in a bottle, is a nutless waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles monkey and should BURN IN FUCKING HELL!!!!! I hate marketers, all they do is to try to decive people into buying WORTHLESS SHIT they dont need so some giant corporation can make money. There should be a hunting season for marketers and corporate executives. it is about time we declare open season on these pencil pushing, liars, crooks and thieves.

[dinanm3atl]

I use the little filter in the fridge. Not a big bottled water guy. I refill them to go to the gym.

[LBJefferies]

Evian=Naive, Bottled water is the greatest scam since religion.

It's not really a scam. It's expensive yes but it's the convenience that makes it worthwhile sometimes.

[Sean5294]

Evian=Naive, Bottled water is the greatest scam since religion.

[Atreus]

the water breaks down due to oxidation... yeah thats it...

/really doesn't know.

[nando]

I heard something on NPR about this although it was related to canned foods not bottled water. Apparently there are two reasons.

First, people seem to feel more comfortable buying something if it has an expiration date.

Second, expiration dates mean more sales.

yeah, there are tons of things that never really expire, but they still have dates on them. Honey, twinkies, most canned food (good unless the can is rusted), pickles, etc. etc. And sometimes it's just because it won't taste as good, not that you will get sick and die if you eat it anyway.

I don't see how having a date means it causes cancer. there's no scientific proof of that at all, just BS from paranoid people.

[ben312]

I heard something on NPR about this although it was related to canned foods not bottled water. Apparently there are two reasons.

First, people seem to feel more comfortable buying something if it has an expiration date.

Second, expiration dates mean more sales.

ever drink a fresh bottle of bottled water? how did it taste? now go drink one past the expiration date, not the same same taste. or open one take a few drinks, then put it in the refrigerator for a few days and drink the rest. it will have a different taste then when you first drank it. now this is not proof of anything but I would like to see a study or reasons as to why this happens.

[LBJefferies]

Its not scientific proof of anything, but water shouldn't go bad in an air sealed container. Yet they have expiration dates on bottled water.

I heard something on NPR about this although it was related to canned foods not bottled water. Apparently there are two reasons.

First, people seem to feel more comfortable buying something if it has an expiration date.

Second, expiration dates mean more sales.

[ben312]

We’ve talked about bottled water before and all the plastic pollution that comes along with buying disposable plastic water bottles every time you need a drink of water.

Well, plastic pollution isn’t the only reason we should be staying away from bottled water. It’s also full of contaminants. Some of them may even cause cancer.

At 1,900 times (1,900 times!) the cost of tap water, you’d think bottled water would be purified, clean, and drinkable. Right? Wrong. Most bottled water is actually just tap water sold in a bottle. It has all the same contaminants as tap water – caffeine, chlorine, toluene (a cancer-causing chemical), arsenic – and some brands have even more.


A recent two-year study conducted by the Environmental Working Group on ten brands of bottled water in California, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware showed high levels of contaminants. While all brands met the federal regulations for tap water, two brands had 3 -5 times the amount of chlorine by-products allowed under California law. All in all, 38 contaminants were found in the ten brands, with about eight in each brand.

Study co-author Jane Houlihan, an environmental engineer and Vice President for Research at EWG, said in a statement that consumers “can’t trust that what’s in the bottle is anything more than processed, pricey tap water”.

It gets worse. High levels of cancer-causing contaminants were found in Sam’s Choice water sold at Wal-Mart and Acadia bottled water from Giant Foods supermarkets. Both had three times the amount of chlorine byproducts, known as trihalomethanes, as are legal under California health standards.

Water researcher Dr. David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment of the University at Albany, who had no role in the study, singled out trihalomethanes as the biggest concern because of strong research links to cancer in this article on MSNBC.

“These are levels that should not be in bottled water,” he said.

The study also said the Wal-Mart brand exceeded California’s health standard for another chlorine byproduct, bromodichloromethane, by five times. Chlorine byproducts are linked not only to cancer, but to birth defects as well.

The Environmental Working Group intends to sue Wal-Mart for selling contaminated water and insist they include a cancer warning on every label.

“In some cases, it appears bottled water is no less polluted than tap water and, at 1,900 times the cost, consumers should expect better,” said Jane Houlihan, an environmental engineer who co-authored the study.

Needless to say, it’s time we stopped falling for manufacturers claims that bottled water is somehow better for us than tap water. In most cases, this is not the truth (Evian and other high-end waters excluded).

Take your health into your own hands and purchase a carbon filter for your tap water. Getting water out of a bottle just isn’t working – for your health or the health of the planet.

[ben312]

yeah, that's totally proof :roll:

Its not scientific proof of anything, but water shouldn't go bad in an air sealed container. Yet they have expiration dates on bottled water.

[daniel]

listen to the "stuff you should know" podcast on fluoride. it is very interesting.