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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless one is distilling their own water in a stainless steel container, and storing it in a quality glass container, they are drinking all sorts of toxins.

Bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water. You can read the location of the source on the bottle, or at least you used to be able to. Perhaps people got mad that their storebought water said "L.A. municipal water supply" and such, so they removed the source name and now say "call for content and source information" which nobody ever bothers doing.

With bottled water, you get all the toxins of government controlled tap water, plus the added microplastics and petrochemicals from the plastics, so you have to pay extra for that. [/quote]

Actually, SOME “bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water”.  As you’ve just pointed out, it’s important to read the labels if you want information about the source.  Beyond that, not all tap water is the same. There actually are some tap waters that I would pay for.  There are also imported waters that I do pay for: like Fiji water, for example. [/quote]

An elitist water connoisseur has entered. :D :lol: [/quote]

Wait -- does that Fiji water actually come from Fiji?  So they are putting water (which is really heavy) in containers and then shipping it half way across the world on boats so that people here can drink it?  I thought that was just a marketing ploy -- I'm appalled that they are actually shipping this stuff.

Some day in the future, when the glaciers have melted and the jet stream has stopped functioning, some little child will ask their grandparent, and he will tell about the days when rich people bottled water from one part of the world, put it into containers made with petrochemicals, used fossil fuels to ship it halfway around the world, and then those petrochemical bottles were thrown into the trash, where they were then transported again halfway around the world to be dumped on a beach and ultimately into the water supply to poison our water with microplastics.  And they did this all because they thought the water from half way around the world tasted a little better than the water that was available right in their own town.

I know I do tons of wasteful stuff, but every time I stop and think about how we live our lives -- compared even to how people lived 100 years ago -- I am amazed at what we are doing, and how little thought we put into it.  [/quote]

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