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If I'm driving around your beautiful country, I didn't bring my own containers and I can't bring them back on the plane. Your own containers are much more expen

If I'm driving around your beautiful country, I didn't bring my own containers and I can't bring them back on the plane. Your own containers are much more expensive than the bottled water is. So no wonder tourists buy bottled water.

rando444 9y ago
Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane, you just can't take them with liquid in them. Just empty them and refill them. When traveling there are faucets at every restaurant, gas station, campsite, or pretty much any place you can think of. It's even safe to drink from the streams out in the nature. In speaking with tourists it's clear that the main reason they buy water (and in the quantities they do) is that they just don't know any better.
- new299 9y ago
  > Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane In terms of energy, that plane flight likely used 1000s to millions of times more energy than that used to create a bottle of water. Running the numbers from [1] and [2], I came up with about 200 bottles of water per mile of air travel. Was that trip necessary? What do we think of people who take an "unnecessary" flight (or perhaps a cheaper one because it takes a longer, less desirable route)? Do we consider them to be in "mental decline" or "apathetic" as other commenter have suggested. In comparison to the flight, the bottle of water seems quite insubstantial. So if they found the water bottle more convenient in this scenario, I can't see a major objection. [1] https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
- OscarCunningham 9y ago
  Last time I travelled from the UK I was allowed to take empty bottles with me, but there's no "of course" about it. For example you can take a full 50ml bottle, but not a 500ml bottle with 50ml of water in it. It's best just to check in advance.

rando444 9y ago

Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane, you just can't take them with liquid in them. Just empty them and refill them. When traveling there are faucets at every restaurant, gas station, campsite, or pretty much any place you can think of. It's even safe to drink from the streams out in the nature. In speaking with tourists it's clear that the main reason they buy water (and in the quantities they do) is that they just don't know any better.

new299 9y ago
> Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane In terms of energy, that plane flight likely used 1000s to millions of times more energy than that used to create a bottle of water. Running the numbers from [1] and [2], I came up with about 200 bottles of water per mile of air travel. Was that trip necessary? What do we think of people who take an "unnecessary" flight (or perhaps a cheaper one because it takes a longer, less desirable route)? Do we consider them to be in "mental decline" or "apathetic" as other commenter have suggested. In comparison to the flight, the bottle of water seems quite insubstantial. So if they found the water bottle more convenient in this scenario, I can't see a major objection. [1] https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
OscarCunningham 9y ago
Last time I travelled from the UK I was allowed to take empty bottles with me, but there's no "of course" about it. For example you can take a full 50ml bottle, but not a 500ml bottle with 50ml of water in it. It's best just to check in advance.