Pepsi Busting Bottled Water Mythos

This article ought to go on the Belch.com main page since it deals with potables, but the environmental angle of this makes it belong here. Essentially, if you drink bottled water in preference to tap water, you are wasting your money and probably helping to pollute the environment.

Bottled water usually comes from city tap water at the source of the bottling. And it tastes like the inside of a plastic bottle too. The only water bottle that should be socially acceptable to carry should be a squeeze bottle like bicyclists use or a good old fashioned canteen, which you fill up before you leave or from a icy cold water fountain. Better yet, a waterskin, made of leather would be cooler. If Coach started producing leather waterskins, women would beat down their doors to have them.

From Reuters here:

PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world’s No. 2 beverage company will include the words “Public Water Source” on Aquafina labels.

Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co’s Dasani are both made from purified water sourced from public reservoirs, as opposed to Danone’s Evian or Nestle’s Poland Spring, so-called “spring waters,” shipped from specific locations the companies say have notably clean water.

Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world’s population is without access to clean water.

And according to BWE here, a five year supply of bottled water will run about one thousand dollars compared to the buck-sixty-five if you use tap water.

And if you don’t think drinking bottled water is BS now, watch the below video from Penn and Teller.