Hitting the Bottle 1
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette looks at the bottled water scam (to quote from the title of the article). A nugget:
In comparison, tap water is usually so pure, bottled water companies can simply bottle it and sell it to you. For example, Coca Cola-owned Dasani bottled water often comes from local water utilities. Visit its website and you can follow the eight-step Dasani treatment process, but never once read which contaminants are so terrifying that the company needs to disinfect the water all over again. If it’s taste you’re after, you can spend up to $5.50 a gallon on the bottled stuff, or as low as $0.15 per gallon for tap water with a home filter.
June 14, 2010 at 11:17 am
When I refused to buy bottled water for my idiot son, he wanted to know why. I explained they just bottle up the tap water, put a label on it, charge the moon & destroy the ecology, just so he can have bottled water.
He fixed himself a glass of ice water. From the tap.