Bottled water business is a fraud. I routinely see a plastic bottle of water costing 1.5x more than a glass bottle of fine lemonade at the same shop. It goes

Bottled water business is a fraud. I routinely see a plastic bottle of water costing 1.5x more than a glass bottle of fine lemonade at the same shop. It goes like this: people drink a lot of bottled water -> big market -> two big bottled water brand nuke the marker with advertising -> shops begin to carry branded bottled water and drop unbranded bottled water, which costs 2x more -> a lot of people buy a half liter of advertising daily. The problem is: They siphon money from peoples' pockets to the advertisers. They spend those to increase the level of noise. And I believe the water quality is dismal, i.e. it's the same tap water and much worse than reverse osmosis filtered water from my tap filter. I think it should actually be regulated and illegal. Then we'll get less noisy adds in our lives and two times cheaper bottled water from a variety of vendors, with its quality up.