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Originally Posted by Borla
It seems that the attraction many bottles water brands key in on is that they are from somewhere else, that is supposed to be cleaner, more pure, or at least "different" from where the consumer is. Different MUST be better, right?
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The grass is always greener on the other side.
I live in southeastern ohio, and the water here has a unique odor / flavor to it that you can sometimes taste through food cooked with it and beverages made with it. I have become accustomed to the odor / flavor, so it doesn't bother me THAT much.
BUT my wife and I do consume only bottled water right now... here's why: I live near a DuPont plant that produces Teflon. There is a chemical used in Teflon production called C8 which DuPont has been leaking it into the groundwater, unbeknownst to residents. The longstanding effects of the chemical are unknown, but it accumulates in the blood and remains there for a long time. A class action lawsuit against DuPont was settled with them funding a health study on C8, the building of filters to get rid of it and free bottled water for families living in affected areas until the filters are in place and tested.
We were receiving water from Culligan, however the cost was high and the project switched to a cheap local company... who barely filters the water before it hits the bottles. It was discovered that bottled water, supposedly free from C8 and being given to people who didn't want to consume the chemical, was full of the stuff we were so focused on trying to avoid. Needless to say, a choice was given to no longer consume the bottled water containing C8 and go to Culligan or another supplier.
The popularity of bottled water can be attributed to many things... Marketing, trends, paranoia, convenience. Personally, I don't drink that much water, but when I do, the tap water would be fine... until we found out that we had our very own Erin Brockovich-style issue going on right in our back yard.