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This article reminds me about how much I hate bottled water, in places where potable water is cheap and plentiful. It’s such an incredibly cynical thing that ma
by roxolotl 1y ago
This article reminds me about how much I hate bottled water, in places where potable water is cheap and plentiful. It’s such an incredibly cynical thing that many American families, again those who have cheap potable water, go through cases of water a week. “A spring in every home” like the article says is a modern miracle. It’s one of the things that if someone was brought here from even just the 1800s they’d be focused on. And yet we’ve managed to build a market primarily focused on recreating scarcity of fresh water.
I don’t know what that says about us. It doesn’t make me feel good though.
- ern 1y agoIf decent water testing kits were widely available...or even water analyzers on the outlets, more people might be more confident drinking tap water. But I suppose there isn't much incentive to push people in that direction.
- redwood 1y agoBottled water, when tested, does not out perform and has more plastic. It's a placebo basically
- teleforce 1y agoIf you are India, bottled water is the safe alternative.
- peterbecich 1y agoI doubt the reasons are that rational. It also correlates with greater consumer spending.
- autoexec 1y agoI suspect the opposite. Especially if those testing kits checked for lead, PFAS, and pesticides. Millions of people are blissfully unaware of what's in their water. Many people are selecting bottled water on taste though, not health concerns. I've been to places in the US where the water not only tasted terrible, it smelled terrible.
- soupfordummies 1y agoIt’s such a (relatively, I guess) recent phenomenon too. Bottled water really wasn’t even a thing when I was a kid. I think it was around the turn of the millennium when it really was novel and then on its way to ubiquity