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I’ve always pretty much thought that bottled water was a scam. Essentially, why pay for something that you can get for free? Why are people so fucking lazy that they can’t go out and buy a stainless-steel (or lexan) water container and refill it from the tap? I really don’t get it. Really, send me 10 cents and I’ll bottle up some air for your dumb ass while we’re at it.

Seriously, does no one care about the future of the planet? Or is everyone just so self-absorbed in their suburban, alienated, Wal-Mart world that they can’t see the bigger picture?

Why not buy a re-usable water bottle? Anyway, this article on bottled water over at Fast Company sums it up nicely:

Message in a Bottle You can buy a half-liter Evian for $1.35–17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren’t paying attention. In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It’s so good the EPA doesn’t require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000. . . . Packing bottled water in lunch boxes, grabbing a half-liter from the fridge as we dash out the door, piling up half-finished bottles in the car cup holders–that happens because of a fundamental thoughtlessness. It’s only marginally more trouble to have reusable water bottles, cleaned and filled and tucked in the lunch box or the fridge. We just can’t be bothered. And in a world in which 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water, and 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water, that conspicuous consumption of bottled water that we don’t need seems wasteful, and perhaps cavalier.