The sting being perpetrated on the American people, while despicable, is a textbook example of brilliant marketing. The bottled water industry has conned millions of customers into plopping down billions of dollars for – in some cases – the very same water they get at home.

To quickly re-cap: Bottled water is often tap water, sold at an enormous mark-up, likely carrying various contaminants while wasting petroleum and littering the planet with billions of trashed empty bottles.

Use Berkey Water Purification for filter bottles and home systems no power.

The sting being perpetrated on the American people, while despicable, is a textbook example of brilliant marketing. The bottled water industry has conned millions of customers into plopping down billions of dollars for – in some cases – the very same water they get at home.

To quickly re-cap: Bottled water is often tap water, sold at an enormous mark-up, likely carrying various contaminants while wasting petroleum and littering the planet with billions of trashed empty bottles.

Use Berkey Water Purification for filter bottles and home systems no power.

It cost me over $3,000 for one hospital stay; the doctors had to run tests to determine what had put me there – it was ‘bad water’.

I started buying bottled water; hated the cost.

I didn’t like tossing those bottles – that bothered me a lot.

We invested into a reverse-osmosis system; now we have the clean drinking water we need.

We do keep 24 bottles of bottled water ‘on hand’, as emergency if anything goes wrong (as it has this week for the 3rd time in 2 years). The water is off; we can’t wash our clothes; last year, it was a water-main break as the year before.

We do keep large gallons of water (4) in our car when we travel in case the car over-heats and/or we need water. We pay 25 cents to fill those bottles at our local market (we walk there).

My dear friend of 50 years is now suffering kidney problems (life-threatening); thousands are being spent to treat her, and since she’s never had a drop of alcohol, they had to ‘trace it down’ – conclusion: Bad tap water.

My mother suffers from repeated bladder infections; the doctors keep recommending ‘bottled water’ – this past month, she relented because it was more costly to pay the doctor bills, than to drink the bottled water (she buys in gallon sizes for 99 cents on sale; $1.59 when it’s not).

All-in-all, each has to decide what is right; various geographical locations suggest bottled water is mandatory – learn to know if you’re in that high-risk are because illness and doctor bills/hospital bills turn that choice of bottled water into a viable one.

Thank you.

That’s because it is a gas – its air dissolved in water. Bottled water is also a lesser evil than soda; very true.

I read an article not so long ago regarding bottled water. The journalist said that he thought it was a joke when he first heard about it. The article also highlighted the fact that it was more expensive than fuel. Bottled water is extortionate, but though I tend to carry a flask with me I’ll happily buy it if I forget.

I think the UK is pretty good in terms of drinking water tastes, I’ve tasted some pretty funky continental and American water!