           If you told someone a few decades ago that we would be spending $1 or even $2 on a bottle of good old H2O they would be flabbergasted. Yet there are dozens of distributing companies making a fortune from selling just that-water.
           With negative media involving the dangers of unsanitary tap water, going up against all the glamorous advertisement (filled with mountains, rivers and purifiers) of spring water. It’s understandable that the public would want to take the safe way out. However, if we only took the time to look at the facts, we would realize that New York tap water is one of the cleanest in the country. Our water might be cleaner then some of the bottled water being advertised, since it is also coming from the different mountains and lakes not too far from New Yorkhttp://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/celebrate.html
           Today there is a real market out there for bottled water, and it is getting to be a bit ridiculous. Voss, a high end water bottle distributor, is primarily offered in hotels and restaurants for the price of $8 for 800ml. So the next time a high end restaurant asks you tap or bottled water (which would cost an arm and a leg), give that question a little more thought.Â
I agree that bottled water do cost a bit much. Sometimes I even wonder if the bottled water itself is actually tap water, but just with a label indicating that it’s spring water. I drink both tap and bottled and to me it’s pretty much the same.
I know it’s an outrage to pay up to $8 for a bottle of water. Rumor has it has Dasani water is actually tap water! On the topic of tap water, I prefer to drink the tap water in Brooklyn rather than in Queens, because from my experience it actually tastes better.
I think that there is no difference in water whether its from the tap or the different companies that bottle water. When you think about it people drink water from the tap all over the world and I don’t think its any harm to them. I don’t what that says about us if we are willing to pay $8 for a bottle of water thats pretty much free if you have a cup.
Yes it seems crazy to be spending money for bottled water, when it is available for free in most homes and public buildings as a matter of fact. I thought it was interesting when i moved to this country that the vending machines were selling bottled water at prices just a couple cents below the cost of soda. Maybe it was really made as an alternative for those soda junkies who need to feel a bottle pressed against their lips..who knows? Anyway, since this is the land of the free, bottled “tap” water or what ever it holds is a consumer’s perogative.