Poll: Pollution gone to far? & Bottled Water

[Del-Toro]

I have a brita, so I get the best of both and the worsts of neither. No plastic bottles going to hell, and no strong taste of whatever is in the water (This black stuff is in the filter from the tapwater........). But yeah, I can still do regular tap and it used to be that we would buy bottled water so my brother would drink it since he hated and literally refused to drink tap water. He could be about to collaspe from thirst and not willing to drink tapwater. The brita fixed this.

 

[megapenguinx]

I don't like bottled water. Not because of the pollution aspect, but because if you keep drinking/eating off of plastic items you increase the risk of cancer.
Also http://www.cracked.com/article_17084_5-ways-people-are-trying-save-world-that-dont-work.html
#3.

That's like using The Onion as a reference...

Jeez no one gets that I put that up as a joke.

Or maybe that was a joke? Look on the internet jokes don't travel well so put a "" or something that way if people do point it out you have proof you where kidding. Or maybe The Onion is in fact a reliable source of info...

Well they do say there is truth in comedy. That's what makes it funny

 

[Piemaster]

Tap water is nicer (at least where I live) and is a lot cheaper. I really don't see the point in buying bottled water.

 

[iain62a]

I don't like bottled water. Not because of the pollution aspect, but because if you keep drinking/eating off of plastic items you increase the risk of cancer.
Also http://www.cracked.com/article_17084_5-ways-people-are-trying-save-world-that-dont-work.html
#3.

That whole link screams of spiteful bias. How's that a valid source of info?

It's not. Cracked has never been a valid source of info. They obviously show bias and take stuff out of context to make it funny. It's meant for entertainment, not to be a valid source for information.

Now I love Cracked.com a lot, but they really aren't a valid source of info.

They did cite quite a few sources in that article, to be fair to them.

But you're right, they're not the place you'd go for reliable information.

 

[painfull2006]

Yes mum... oh wait! no!

plastic bottles are recyclable, do YOUR bit to the environment AND your body, although, you did give mention to an American state and Britain seems to be a lot bigger on the whole bottles water thing, Disani didn't make it over here because its only filtered water, we only drink the pure stuff

Now stop whining, do you really think posting that on THIS forum would change anyone's perspectives at all?

Nope, bye bye

 

[.Warheart]

Maybe we like the Strogg contamination? =D

No seriously, it's bull people use plastic to wrap about everything.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

Bottled water is the biggest sham ever!!!

Did you know that tap water has more strict quality regulation than bottled water? Did you know theres only a couple people who oversee ALL bottled water in the entire US? Who's to even say "mountain springs" arent contaminated by humans dumping toxic shit on the land?

Seriously, a brita filter w/ tap water would most def produce healthier water (w/ the exception you live in coal mining country & have a well; all that water is hella contaminated)

Many bottled water companies don't use "mountain spring" water, they use water from the public water grid, which we already pay for in taxes.

Also when I used to live in the country we had safe tap water, although many of us took those huge water juggs and brought them down to a spring water source that essentially came out of a drilled hole in a rock. The water came from the ground and was filtered by both the soil and the rocks. It was pretty top notch quality too. The supply was actually inspected two times a year to make sure it was clean.

Yes I know. Like PepsiCo Aquafina & Coca-Cola Dasani. But my point remains the same, there is LESS Regulation for even re-bottled tap water then there is for tap water. So they could contaminate (w/ toxic, carcinogenic PBT for example) it and there's nothing illegal about it. There are no standards for bottled water quality, except their "word".