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                                    Bottled water   phil

 

Have you ever bought a bottle of bottled water? If you did you pay attention to where it was from? How much did you pay for it? Welcome to one of the biggest and most dishonest scams on the earth today.

Now that airlines have made it against the rules to take more the 100 ml (?) of liquids onto an airplane, that the only water you can find in the airports is bottled water. Last time I was passing through Heathrow, they were selling mostly only Évian water, imported from France, for over one quid a bottle. Some people are making good money selling something that is basically free.

In the USA, you can buy a whole 10 or 20 pack of bottled water for a dollar or two, which you may think is a good deal, but what about all the plastic garbage that you and other people are filling up the landfills with? What about all the trucks that are transporting those crates of bottled water around for you to buy, crowding the highways and using fuel ?

Some celebs pay a premium price for Voss bottled water, imported all the way from Norway. . Some others will drink water imported all the way from Fiji. Think of all the energy used to transport the water, something that most people have good access to.  It is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard of, shipping water from one place to another place that already has clean water.

In Finland, in the land that probably has the most readily available drinkable water in Europe or perhaps even in the world, the locally bottled water probably costs the most in the world. A bottle of no-name locally bottled water here costs over one Euro.

Is the bottled water any better than municipal water? Sometimes the delivered bottled water can have many times the amount of bacteria in it than the municipal water, especially the clean municipal water in Finland, which is often spring water. (with the temporary exception of Nokia) Some Finnish lakes are so clean, you could drink straight from them. Most lakes that have a municipal beach also have postings of the bacteria ppm content. There you can see first hand how clean it is. On the other hand, the water from the ground can indeed be polluted or have dangerous microbes in it, which does justify buying bottled water or purifying it yourself. I have been to places where the municipal water is not drinkable, or even always available, like Nairobi, Kenya for example, especially during the dry season. There it has to be filtered through ceramic filters before being drunk.

Maybe you should think twice next time before succumbing to the great scam. Just take one of your deposit bottles, fill it up with your municipal water, cork it, and take it with you next time you think you will need water to drink while on the move. Save energy and save your money for something more interesting.