Bottled water ban big time in a rural Australian town

[geetrue]

Tap water is certainly in some of those bottles or just filtered water, but I love my Mountain Spring water. I put it in my coffee, in my kool aid and you can really tell the difference when you don't.

What did people drink before bottled water?

Isn't water in the beer and soda pop too?

Bottled water ban in Australia

SYDNEY (AP) — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country — and possibly the world — to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.
Residents of Bundanoon cheered after their near-unanimous approval of the measure at a town meeting Wednesday. It was the second blow to Australia's beverage industry in one day: Hours earlier, the New South Wales state premier banned all state departments and agencies from buying bottled water, calling it a waste of money and natural resources.
"I have never seen 350 Australians in the same room all agreeing to something," said Jon Dee, who helped spearhead the "Bundy on Tap" campaign in Bundanoon, a town of 2,500 about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Sydney. "It's time for people to realize they're being conned by the bottled water industry."

[AVGWarhawk]

They drank coke-a-cola and other assorted soft drinks until someone came along and said how bad they are for you. You need at least a gallon of water a day for your health. Then a company hanging out by a river said, let's get on the bandwagon and bottle this stuff. Everyone wants it! Then the earth went into a huge global warming deal were these billion upon billions of empty plastic water bottles ruined the environment and started the global financial collapse that we are experiencing to day.

Stay thirsty my friend.

[Letum]

It all depends on the quality of tap water in your area.

My current water supply is from a local spring and is fair.
When I was last in Leeds City the water was horrible. I had to buy a filtering device.

Still, the only way I would ever go near bottled water is buying it in bulk.
A shop near me sells it in 25L tanks.

[geetrue]

The best water I have ever tasted was in New York straight from the fountain, but I hear that everyone says that due to the way they bring it in from upper state New York in those big concrete pipes.

You saw that movie right the one where they pretended to blow it up with Bruce Willis.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

They drank coke-a-cola and other assorted soft drinks until someone came along and said how bad they are for you. You need at least a gallon of water a day for your health. Then a company hanging out by a river said, let's get on the bandwagon and bottle this stuff. Everyone wants it! Then the earth went into a huge global warming deal were these billion upon billions of empty plastic water bottles ruined the environment and started the global financial collapse that we are experiencing to day.

Im with ya !

Buy a damn tap filter is all I can say.

I heard an ad for some thing they called the eco bottle. It was basically a canteen shaped like a bottled water bottle. Came with a filter too. Kind of cool.

What got me was their pitch proclaiming that plastic bottles are killing us "espically if left in a hot car" :rotfl:. Causes cancer they proclaim. I proclaim I aint drinkin no hot water

[GoldenRivet]

Install a filter system on your tap, bottle it, store it on ice or in the fridge... Just as good as any bottled product.

[Task Force]

water here is from the dismal swamp if im correct... tastes like chlorine. god knows whats in it...

I heard something about bottles that have been recycled... some chemical is in the plastic that gets in the water when it heats... can make you sick.

[antikristuseke]

Here tap water has stricter health standards than bottled water, it is allso a lot cheaper, guess which one I'm drinking.

I was told by someone in the know that, on average, everytime you draw a drink from the tap it has been consumed eight times prior. I'm sure you can fill in the gaps. Pardon the pun.

[Task Force]

lol, yea, mine was probably used by a bird, err fish... lol

Originally Posted by Task Force

lol, yea, mine was probably used by a bird, err fish... lol

He was talking about people, if you add in the birds fish and other beasts it probably jumps astronomically.

[Task Force]

Ill forget i heard that... lol

[Letum]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

I was told by someone in the know that, on average, everytime you draw a drink from the tap it has been consumed eight times prior. I'm sure you can fill in the gaps. Pardon the pun.

Given the number of atoms in a pint of water, chances are that every time
you drink any water parts of it have been consumed by all manner of beast
and man at some time.

[AVGWarhawk]

Perhaps that accounts for the sodium content.

[Skybird]

Over here tap water is said to be the best controlled food stuff of all. Quality varies regarding lime and chlorine, the latter making it taste bad. A simple water filter - not even a solid installation - cures both.

I always wondered why so many people here spend time, energy and money to buy bottled water. It is an artifical "need" that was artifically raised by the industry from the 80s on with a lot of advertising. A factual need for that has never been existent over here. Much of doing so is fashion only. But I heared that in some other Wetsern countries the taste of tap water is terrible, although the health quality is okay. A former colleague of my father was american, from Las Vegas. He said that there tap water had so much chlorine that it could be used to disinfect tooth brushes.