Why do I see people buying multiple flats of bottled water?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people think the public tap water is dirty yet it's cleaner and more regulated than bottle water is so it doesn't make sense. I think it's sheer ignorance. Even using a brita or pur water filter with tap water is better than buying water it's cheaper and doesn't waste a bunch of plastic.

Tap certainly is not cleaner than bottled water since bottled water is just filtered tap water.

I wish people would do a simple search before running their mouth or fingers online. Tap water is indeed cleaner than bottled water. LOOK. IT. UP. STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION because of your ignorance.

I bet you don't get your tap water from a source that's near a former Kodak film processing plant, International Paper plant, etc .

Or DC's lead pipes. Enjoy!

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School for staff appreciation. All our pto can afford. Lots of reasons.

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My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people think the public tap water is dirty yet it's cleaner and more regulated than bottle water is so it doesn't make sense. I think it's sheer ignorance. Even using a brita or pur water filter with tap water is better than buying water it's cheaper and doesn't waste a bunch of plastic.

Tap certainly is not cleaner than bottled water since bottled water is just filtered tap water.

Tap is cleaner. Tap also doesn’t have millions of particles of micro plastics like bottled water. Look it up. You think all that bottled water that’s probably been sitting in the hot sun, breaking down the plastic, is a good thing? Also, read about nylon tea bags. Like Ito En ones from Costco. These plastic particles can break the blood brain barrier as well. I only drink filtered tap now and loose leaf tea.

I mean… have *you* looked it up? Because it by “clean” you meant “free of micro plastics” tap water has micro plastics too.

Just read the fking studies. Bottled water, you know that sits in plastic for long periods of time in hot and cold weather, that has a plastic top that sheds plastic into the bottle, clearly exposes you to more microplastics than tap water. Jesus Christ.

First hit on google. I hate lazy posters.

https://cleanwater.org/2020/07/29/bottled-water-human-health-consequences-drinking-plastic

Let me guess, you also don’t believe in vaccines or that they change your dna and do bad stuff, right?

Are you a complete idiot? J/W

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Anonymous wrote:My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

Maybe they know more than you do about their water source.

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Anonymous wrote:My white parents but cases of water. For them it’s convenience. They don’t want to wash bottles/glasses and just want to grab icy cold water straight from the fridge.

OP here. I guess my observation is that it's almost exclusively hispanic people, but not exclusively one gender, age group, etc. But maybe that's just my weird sample set.

Some people immigrate here from countries/states/towns where bottled water is literally the only safe drinking water. It can be hard to break that habit/mindset when you are taught from birth never to drink anything but bottled.

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Anonymous wrote:My white parents but cases of water. For them it’s convenience. They don’t want to wash bottles/glasses and just want to grab icy cold water straight from the fridge.

OP here. I guess my observation is that it's almost exclusively hispanic people, but not exclusively one gender, age group, etc. But maybe that's just my weird sample set.

Some people immigrate here from countries/states/towns where bottled water is literally the only safe drinking water. It can be hard to break that habit/mindset when you are taught from birth never to drink anything but bottled.

The same with carefully checking the seals on bottled water and drinks to make sure it isn't re-bottled. It's just habit when you have lived in some countries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

Maybe they know more than you do about their water source.

Their water source is fine.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s probably habit/culture for immigrants and some Americans.

Buying for resale doesn’t make sense. They sell bottled water at all the wholesale places where you buy everything else for a food truck.

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Anonymous wrote:My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

Maybe they know more than you do about their water source.

Their water source is fine.

80% of USD drinking water contains PFAS "forever chemicals"

https://www.ehn.org/drinking-water-pollution-2655521279.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-americans-drink-potentially-unsafe-tap-water-how-does-your-county-stack

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people think the public tap water is dirty yet it's cleaner and more regulated than bottle water is so it doesn't make sense. I think it's sheer ignorance. Even using a brita or pur water filter with tap water is better than buying water it's cheaper and doesn't waste a bunch of plastic.

Tap certainly is not cleaner than bottled water since bottled water is just filtered tap water.

I wish people would do a simple search before running their mouth or fingers online. Tap water is indeed cleaner than bottled water. LOOK. IT. UP. STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION because of your ignorance.

I bet you don't get your tap water from a source that's near a former Kodak film processing plant, International Paper plant, etc .

And those people should use bottled water. The other 99% however, are perfectly well, even better served (from an ecological and plastic consumption standpoint) by good old tap water. Shoot. Maybe throw in a Brita if they’re frightened. Either way, the point stands that tap has less plastic. Every study shows it. It’s also orders of magnitude cheaper. End of discussion.

[Anonymous]

I’m canadian and don’t drink the water here, no thank you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

Maybe they know more than you do about their water source.

Their water source is fine.

80% of USD drinking water contains PFAS "forever chemicals"

https://www.ehn.org/drinking-water-pollution-2655521279.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-americans-drink-potentially-unsafe-tap-water-how-does-your-county-stack

Are you serious?

https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122/

Tap is better.

[Anonymous]

I live in LA and don’t know anyone who drinks tap water. If you don’t have a home water filtration system, you buy bottled water. Even the poors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My (white, solidly middle class) ILs do this. They live somewhere with perfectly clean water. And they usually look for the cheapest option for everything - store brand everything, unlicensed contractor, budget airlines - yet the buy cases upon cases of Poland Spring and make snide remarks when I use their tap to refill my reusable water bottle. I don't understand it.

Maybe they know more than you do about their water source.

Their water source is fine.

80% of USD drinking water contains PFAS "forever chemicals"

https://www.ehn.org/drinking-water-pollution-2655521279.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-americans-drink-potentially-unsafe-tap-water-how-does-your-county-stack

Are you serious?

https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122/

Tap is better.

Where I grew up everyone knows the tap water is full of fertilizer and other gross farm runoff. It depends on your source.