Bottled Water is Literally a SCAM
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2023
- Early on, bottled water became the villain of the environmental movement. Somehow, there’s still one million plastic water bottles being purchased every minute around the world. So, why do we keep buying bottled water and, more importantly, how do these companies profit off our need to?
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I got an ad for Fiji water during the Cleveland segment. Gotta love it
Me too! AH!
I love Fiji water. For me it tastes the best out of all bottled water. Once I buy it I reuse the bottle to refill the bottle for 6-7 months.
Got one from Spa. the irony
@@eshtermaria6884 ya I am not hating on Fiji. I also assume they allow their ads on videos where they are mentioned good or bad. It's just ironic that it would show up at that exact moment!
Mmm, arsenic 😋
As someone living in a third world country, tap can't be trusted. But we have reusable jugs that we refill at water filtration stations
I concur to that since I live in Mexico.
Absolutely! This is how a looooot of people have to live!
@@FutureProofTV Not "a looooot of people", MOST PEOPLE, FFS. Your video is insanely first world centric and reeks of privilege. You repeatedly suggest, in various subtle ways, that this is not the case, you even start by saying during cholera outbreaks bottled water was "perceived" as safer, a really weird word choice. During the epidemics of cholera and typhoid bottled water was ABSOLUTELY safer.
@@alittlebitgone They used the word "seen" not, "perceived". If the video reeked of privilege they would be telling everyone they only drink Kona Nigari Water. But, hey to each his own and you're allowed to have your opinion.
I am from the philippines, thats a 3rd world country, we don’t drink straight from the tap but we boil tap water and store it for consumption. There is always a way however most of the times convenience always wins
Good old Nestlé being a nightmare for society and the environment as usual
Claaaaassic big corp stuff
But they’re providing so many good subjects for future proof to make a video about! So they’ve got that going for them. 🫠
Indubitably.... Unfortunately....
Sipping on some nestle chocolate milk rn
If I remember correctly nestles water came out of a tap that was filtered from Paterson NJ..there is absolutely nothing pure that comes from Paterson NJ
As a resident in Michigan, I absolutely refuse to purchase anything Nestle. It sickens my stomach to see how much water they pump out of my state for the price of $200 per year. Then they wanted to pump even more, until environmentalists got involved and squashed it.
I live in Michigan too. Nestlé is a horrible corporation
I hate nestle water so much, it tastes like garbage
I live in Wisconsin and I also hate Nestle. A company of pure evil that takes advantage of the capitalist laws to ruin peoples lives.
I hope they burn.
Yep. Nestlé sucks. When they came to my shop to try and sell us product to carry I straight up told them we would never carry Nestlé products due to their policies and practices around water. I went with a smaller, independent ice cream maker, about 2 hours away from where we were.
@Elvirabg no it doesn't lol. It's literally just water. You can not like the company all day but the eater tastes like regular water. Quit lying simply because you hate the company lol its lame
Coke had to "voluntarily withdraw" Desani from the UK because, not only was it just processed tap water, but their processing method added bromate to the water, bromate is a carcinogen.
ahhhh it's just a little cancer right?
its mostly water.
yes im joking.
Dasani is trash, even Americans don't like it. There were pictures during the pandemic where everything in the store was gone, even every other kind of water but there were still tons of Dasani. Also a carcinogen or poison is mainly in the amount you consume aside from things like lead which build up in your body. Just a quick search brought up that the claim that bromate is a carcinogen was "found" from exposing rats to consistent high levels of it. Many many thousands of times more than what would be found in that water.
UK resident here, it's still not legally sold here
Government refuses to let them still AFAIK
Source: trust me bro
My source? I'm from the UK and remember this happening.
I’ll never forget when Nestle pumped water outside Flint Michigan for pennies on the dollar and sold their water back to flint residents 🤬
lol
It cost to pump buy the bottles and and put it in the bottles
@@christophercline6001 so? The point was that the governor allowed a corporation to monetize the few clean water sources outside of flint Michigan instead of redirecting citizens water to that cleaner source
youd prefer they did not do that and people didnt have water?
Ye
I live in a Canadian city with great tap water. Without fail, whenever I go to the grocery store, I still see scores of people stocking up on big boxes of bottled water. Such a waste of money and plastic, not to mention that microplastics from the bottles themselves end up in the water they contain. The more people fall for this in places with clean, free tap water, the fewer places with clean, free tap water we'll have.
in old buildings you a lot of times have rusty pipes with possible lead contamination
Enjoy your chlorine and fluoride.
@@fgsaramago"old" buildings. I doubt residents who have their own houses would have that issue
@@fgsaramago excpet lead doesn't "rust", the oxide is not water soluble (so lead posoning from leaf pipes is a myth except you have acidic water= and hasnt even been used for like 80 years. PVC is a more real threat
Here in Italy we have a slightly different situation in that bottle water is usually mineral water, that is water coming from a spring.
Nestle wasn't happy with that, though, and now you also find tap water bottled.
Problem is, our plumbing is kind of old. In many cities water has a bad taste and we don't want to drink that, even though it's safe.
That's the most common case. Pipes are the issue not the water itself.
And Nestle knows that getting a bottle at the gas station while you're out is more "convenient" than packing your own bottle so they capitalize there too, even if you've got your own filtration system at home 🤦♂️
Same thing here in Hungary, too. Sometimes it even smells bad and sometimes has an off yellowish color. Thanks but no thanks! Plus people here drink a lot of fizzy water, too.
@@FutureProofTV Ive only ever seen foreigners buying bottled water at gas stations here in Portugal. Its outrageously expensive, its a scam. Having said that, bottled water is basically a necessity in most old buildings but its mineral water. Im not aware of any brand sold here in Portugal thats just tap water and I do read the labels. Theres basically a dozen different brands all from well known sources
@@fgsaramago it's funny but portugal is a 3dr world country lost in europe, so that makes sense
We got a countertop water filter that holds about 2 gallons a few months back. It’s been a game changer
@@berenguerx in most places I have lived, unfiltered tap water tastes very bad
As someone who went from city tap water to well water, a countertop filter has been fantastic. Say what you will about minerals etc, but I'd rather be actually drinking water than avoiding it because I don't like the taste of it.
same. down in florida the water tastes nasty. invested in a 5 stage RO filter system too and its been amazing for my feeling of wellbeing
As long as you change filters it should be perfect
My in-laws are old and sick. Yet they still find the strength to carry a shit ton of bottled water from the store to home.
My wife and I bought them a under-sink purifier but they don't use because they're just too used to bottles and tap water "tastes bad".
They don't even cook with tap water anymore.
It's just insane
Get a reverse osmosis pitcher like vitev and have both of them. Drink it without saying it's tap, then have them drink just plain bottle water.
Proud to say that I haven't bought a bottle of water in years. I live in Ontario where our water is perfectly fine so I just fill a Brita-like dispenser and put it in the fridge. It never sat well with me as a kid, seeing my family buy tons of bottles of water, to just drink in the house and throw away. There are tons of disgusting habits we have as a society and bottled water is up there at the top. I never believed the "cleaner than the tap" bullshit.
Brita-like CONDITIONER....
What about fluoride?
It is cleaner than the tap you dope, and a Brita isn’t cleaning anything
everything is bad IDC what u use
@@backs8189facts😂😂
What bothers me is how Fiji water claims it’s untouched by humans, but if it is, how the hell did it get into the bottle? Also, why does literal water have to be expensive, let alone required to paid for? We literally need it to live
you need food to live to and yet you have to work for it god damn
some places in the US are now showing contaminated tap water also, it seems like a small price to pay for not dying to to some covered up spill that occurred up stream somewhere.
Love the episode of Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" where they had a "water sommelier" serve people fancy water only to reveal later that all the water had come from the hose out the back.
I'm from the Philippines and tap water here according to the water source supplier is safe enough to drink but apparently the plumbing is not the best and can have leaks/holes that can contaminate the water.
The refilling station thing is not convenient for me so I bought a filter instead and my water now tastes like bottled mineral water lol
I'm also from the Philippines. Honestly, while a few people could still drink water from the tap, the rise of mineral water refilling stations in every town, city, and province is gradually making the tap water seem a bit insignificant except for bathing, laundry, dishwashing, car wash, cooking and other non-drinking purposes.
The thing about ill-intentioned groups being the first to attend disasters is very similar to how mafias work. Well known in Japan is the fact that Yakuza used to be the very first to do search & rescue missions, as well as provide food and water to families displaced by earthquakes, floods and typhoons. It was a way to approach and scout people into the mafia.
Yakuza also LOST a lot of power in the last few decades so that probably isn't true anymore, but the point stands; we live in a world where charity is so necessary that it became exploitable by organized crimes, and it IS exploited by such groups.
There was a serious scandal, the power companies also had to buy labour off Yakuza to perform the nuclear power station cleanup, and in turn Yakuza picked worse off citizens in the affected areas and just all sorts of homeless people and junkies with drug debt etc from all around to do that. Nobody else was willing to do that, so we're told, but the question of possible slave labour comes up.
And of course we're well aware of a lot of key humanitarian aid and even animal rescue being performed by airquote "legitimate businessmen" in Ukraine during current events. Though by all reason they DID go legit since the 90s. Mostly. At least somewhat. It's never quite black and white is it.
I live in Athens, Greece where the tap water is very safe and nice.
It sickens me to my core that a lot of people don't actually drink it. Even at restaurants they default to bottled water instead of bringing a jug and you have to ask specifically for tap water instead of being the default. Thankfully this changes. Many cafes and restaurants have now ice makers that draw water from the network and serve tap water without extra charge whenever you need a refill. But I still see people living right next to me, sharing pretty much the same system of pipes, who downright refuse to drink tap water and instead go to buy bottled. Most of the dumpsters around town are full of PET plastic water containers. It's really, REALLY sad.
Here in Portugal its illegal for restaurants to charge for tap water. Thats why they force you to specifically request it
@@fgsaramago yeah i think in most of the world. that's why they SELL you botled water instead if you dont ask for it
Really loved the video. It shows how absolutely insane the concept of putting water (available for free mostly everywhere) in a plastic container to then sell it is.
Also, if I might add, I'm not sure the idea of chemical words being unpronounceable should be a point/argument at all when talking about chemicals. Anything can sound scary or dangerous when using its chemical name, and dihydrogen monoxide is not dangerous just because it might seem like it by its name.
Facts.
Completely agree!
You realize tap water is not safe to drink for the vast majority of humans right?
@@alittlebitgone yes, and it was pointed y in the video. But in the context of a brief comment on this video, I made an oversimplification of my general idea which does not encompass all of the nuances I could have made
Dihydrogen monoxide is not dangerous??? "Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths" 236,000 deaths every year is no joke. If the chemical name wasn't so scary sounding I'm sure it would only be a half or a third of that
I never understood this. Everyone always says "its just tap water that is cleaned again with reverse osmosis" yeah, exactly, its water, but cleaned again. That is what I want. The water from my tap is not clean enough, so clean it again, and I will pay you for that. What did you *think* I thought it was? Magical water? all water is just H2O, so of course its similar to tap water.
Let’s not pretend like all bottled water is the same though. Some just taste better than others. Dasani and Aquafina are some of the worse tasting IMO; they taste like rubber or plastic.
When I need to buy bottled water, I go for spring water or water with minerals added because it just taste better.
I think the exact opposite. I live Aquafina because it tasted like nothing. I don't like the mineral taste in my water.
Different brands do taste significantly different here in Europe because most of them are bottled alpine water bottled right at the source and the mineral content is different in every location.
BUT my favourite is still tap water that stood in the fridge overnight 😇 most places i lived had fairly hard water which is more alkaline and i prefer that taste. Spa Reine on the other hand is fairly acidic water from a natural source and i hate its taste
of course, but this channel is just about saying "big corporations bad blablabla" he missinforms all the time, like when he says it's just tap water (wich is not the case for those that clearly say they are sping water), or like when he says dupont is to blame for plastic waste bc they invented plastic and have a lo of money wich is unbelivably stupid, such as saying the people who discovered lead are to blame for shootings 🤡
In Denmark, I can drink tap water, which tastes like water with sometimes a hint of metal, but still better than bottled water, and its weird and sometimes plastic taste. But in Thailand, I have to survive on bottled water for the entire visit.
As a German I always find the fact that people actively choose to buy water bottles so interesting.
Most people in Germany who buy water, buy sparkling water. And even then getting a small station to add CO2 to your own tap water is a very popular thing here.
I do know that some ppl get bottled water for their kettle or coffee makers in areas that have harder water but most ppl drink tap water or sparkling water from reusable plastic or glass bottles
Here me out... when you mainly drink water (like I), water does taste different from bottle to bottle to tap.
For example, evian? Trash, cannot drink it even if dehydrated.
Local tap(filtered)? Avg. I like it for day2day.
Bottled X spring, flat, good for drinking.
Bottled Y, metalic, with good profile for espresso.
At least we in EU do not have so many scammers like in the US.
I feel that so much. I live up north in Germany and water here is excellent and if I’m honest, some bottled water tastes awful compared to tap water.
@@jousis_it’s just bad 😅
@@jousis_ totally. this tap water advocates that say all water is tha same NEVER drink water trust me. in my city water is generally ok but sometimes tastes awful, like olive oil or something. i can definitelly tell difference from brand to brand too.
What a brilliant video! It’s so important to make the general public aware of these things!
The best thing was about my city is that our tap water was better than bottled water, and oh, you just turn the tap on for 5-6 secs, and its ice cold ... like no other city can compete, but unfortunately, it's all gone now ... my city was Damascus, the city of Barada river & Jasmine.
All I know is bottled water tastes a lot better than tap water and doesn't make me want to throw up after drinking it.
had the same issue wtth my water till I purchased an RO filter system. cost a lot up front but it pays for itself after a few months.
I agree, personally I like only couple of the brands - I guess mineral balance in those is just to my liking.
Enjoy you’re micro plastics and chemicals 👍🏾
This is why we can’t make changes to the world…
I remember picking up a load of imported beverages from a warehouse in California. It contained pallets of alcohol i expected. What i didn't expect was that over half of it was water. Evian, Perrier, Fiji and others.
When you look at the options in the bottled water aisle, notice how much of it is bottled in other parts of the world. Then notice the people who choose those brands because they don't want to support companies bottling in their community. Typically they are the same company.
In Australia we have filtered water taps that are common in most older houses (they run the water through a filter that gets changed every year or so)
You should do research on the imperialistic angle of not only water but all bottling companies. I'd appreciate it if you made a video on water extraction in Chiapas, Mexico by the CocaCola company. An awful situation that, of course, fails to reach international news.
Just say you’re anti white.
Shout out for mentioning Six Nations of The Grand River and the contrast of access to drinking water.
My wife and I are involved on the reserve and the living conditions for a lot of people there is so incredibly worse than 15mins away, off the reserve.
The best example was the episode of "Fools and Horses" where they produced Peckham Spring water from a dubious source then from the mains.
Surely there should be legal constraints on the sale of water bottled in PET bottles? And what about the carbon footprint of water shipped half way around the world?
As a Third World citizen, my Latinamerican country has drinkable tap water.
When I worked as a hydrogeologist I always found it funny how people react when I tell them that tap water is safer and less contaminated than 'spring water'
OK but they do add minerals in them right?
This isn’t true at all. There’s also a huge difference in bottled water like Dasani that says “purified water” (actual, literal purified tap water), and spring water.
A hydrogeologist would or should know that this is only true in some places.
tap water is definitely not safe in old cities with old pipes
@@ats-3693 Minority of places. Most cities around the world have "bad" tap water that isn't recommended for drinking
I found a countertop water filter from the thrift store a while back, now we use it in the fridge so that we have something cold to drink when we don’t feel like drinking just tap water. The combination of that filter, and getting a water bottle that I actually love is the only thing keeping me regularly hydrated. Before that I hated tap water so much that I was pretty much constantly in a state of dehydration that ended up having serious health consequences
Speaking of ocean waste, can we talk about cigarette butts any time soon? Are we ready to have that conversation?
I'm sick of cigarette smoker arrogance. They just flick it out their car window, or smash it with their foot in front of the doors going in to a store. As if they get some pass to behave that way. I'm tired of their sht. And for what? A cancer causing addiction they chose. Their bodies don't need cigarettes. It's a moronic habit to begin with, and then we all have to live with their bullsht.
6:25- I love how he says “for free…” nothing is free in this world lmao water cost money even from the faucet😂
tap water generally costs less than 1/2 cent per gallon- that's next to nothing. That means the water your body needs to live costs about 2 cents per week.
Did I miss the part where he said Fiji water isn't from Fiji? All I got is that purified drinking water from nestle is similar to tap water. That seems like common knowledge.
Tap water is not free, you pay for it. And it all depends on where you live. Some places have horrible tap water.
Thanks captain obvious
I'm a big fan of your channel. I live in the UK and I was told by many people that the tab water here is very hard and cause hairloss...
I've used bottled water solely for brewing coffee in places where I don't have access to treated water. I'm quite nerdy about my coffee so I want only specific amounts of specific minerals to maximize the flavour, and that's easily done using specific brands of bottled water. For my home coffee/tea brewing I use tap water, a ZeroWater demineralizing filter and re-mineralise the water with only the minerals I want for brewing. Otherwise I just drink tap water, which in Scotland is very safe, very soft and quite tasty.
Yeah I heard its best to use purified water for brewing espresso.
My dad's tap water taste so awful that he drinks only bottle water now. I know it is something to do with his building because our city was ranked amongst the best in Canada. But he never tested filtering his water, or doing a bit more effort by coming were I live to fill out. He just keep buying tap water in single use plastics bottles from it's closest store that are labeled as basically tap water sourced from other cities in Canada and as I said, our city have probably have better water quality. (He won't change, whatever I say, he has a stubborn mind)
Idk how old your dad is, why not buy a filter yourself or move him to live with you? My dad bought his own filter system but he still uses water bottles often. He’s not inclined to change so I try to fill up reusable bottles I got him.
@TheNinjapancake14 you think they should move the dad in with them because he buys bottle water? That's one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
"Hey dad im guessing you noticed your house house is empty. Well I decided to move you into my house because you won't change your mind about bottle water"
I won't drink tap water if there is fluoride.
So what do we do. Can't trust tap water, shouldn't drink bottles of water....guess I'll just die 😂😂😂
Never seen a "stop oil" protest a at a water bottling plant.
I once hiked in the deep Norwegian mountain wilderness and encountered a stream of water that tasted just incredible. It tasted so good I would happily pay 50 bucks for a bottle of it.
yeah but too bad they then fluorate it and it gets all the bpa and nasty stuff from the plastic bottles. tap water advocates are full of shit with this "all water is the same" thing. bet he drinks montain dew or something
Oh nestle, back at it again
always being EVIL 😭
We drink bottled water because in some place where tap water just got pumped from local ponds or lakes (like in rural area) is absolutely undrinkable. At the very least we have to buy water with refill gallons from water trucks. I can't even use tap water in those area to brush my teeth. Water smell is just unbearable.
In big city, tap water can be drink if filtered first.
I just got a reusable water bottle, so I don’t have to rely on plastic as much anymore 😅
You are still trapped into believing you have to carry water around with you
That's awesome! We love our Klean Kanteens here but any kind is better than disposable 🤠🤠
As a Norwegian, bottled water is almost unheard of. I mean we have it, but so few people are buying it. Coming from that type of bg I've always found the whole bottled water thing to be incredibly dystopian and disturbing
so is voss basically norwegian tap water?
@@whitesaladchips I think it's actually marketed that way? I mean, not from the faucet, but like, fancy Norwegian spring water from sparkling fjords and waterfalls
@@theredkitteh don't think it's marketed as 'tap water' although I read from some where that's basically the same thing. Also the glass packaging makes it look like a premium product lol.
here in Portugal bottled water is basically a necessity in most old buildings. Unless you want to pay to change all the piping in the building because your neighbors certainly arent going to be willing to split the bill with you
Drives me wild that these companies are charging 50-100% more than gas for water, and people just buy it without thinking. I don’t know if the bottled water companies manufactured the “tap water is full of toxins” scare, but they sure as hell capitalized on it.
Cleveland responding to Fiji the way they did is a sick burn lol.
I live in a small southern town with a beverage bottling factory in it. The factory gets fined tens of thousands of dollars for what it does to the small town water supply and happily pays it. Sort of a cost of doing business. I work at that factory. That factory gives me the money i need to buy bottled water that i need to buy because it exists.
In Ireland, bottled water is more expensive than milk, which famously takes a lot of water to make. And I'm in a country that rains like every other day. I'm ashamed to say I only bought a refillable water bottle last year, but so happy I did. I drink more water and spend way less money on drinks. And now when I do buy myself a drink, its buying myself a nice treat, rather than as a necessity.
thats strange. Any idea why its more expensive than milk?
@@fgsaramagomaybe to encourage people to drink more local milk since bottled water companies are foreign but ireland's best industry is agriculture
also are tap water is safe so there's no real need
@@KawaiiStars you are irish? then that answer would be basically "taxes"
@@mranon42023 well of course, ireland has low taxes for foreign companies compared to some places so they love to be here, so adding taxes to water makes sense, i know there're other reasons, but I've also seen a great push to make local goods cheaper than any foreign product, most of the cheaper items i get like milk and butter are defo irish, anything that can't be produced here isn't as expensive on average
I'm still shocked knowing that water refilling stations doesn't exist on these well-off countries. The Philippines doesn't have a safe tap water, but we have those refilling stations that sells us for 25php per 20 liters of purified water. I rarely buy bottled water nowadays since I've bought a reusable water container.
i drink tap water from Maynilad every single day for 26 years and I am fine.
youre just a spoiled brat
Who the fuck wants to go to a “water filling station”? What is this? 1907?
they do, certain grocery stores have water refill station to refill large water jugs, but I don't see alot of people use them, at least in the US can't speak for other 1st world countries
here in the philippines you can actually just buy a a water filtration system similar to what the water refilling station use for lessthan 100usd price get higher when you wanna add uv chamber and osmosis module and save more money and bath on and wash dishes with actual clean water
@@gasoline3597I use the one in my grocery store…grab about 15g a week…plastic bottles are thing of the past in my family.
where I live, the tap water is very good- that's not always the case- so I'm lucky there. I have a 2-canister under sink water filter and refill a 1-gallon water jug every day. I also have refillable 1-liter water bottles to take to work. No plastic waste, great tasting water, and all of that costs me 35 cents per week.
Aside from the bottled water industry in Korea at least there's yet another industry that takes advantage of it which is the water purifier industry. So many households have a purifier hooked up to their tap, even though our water supply has been safe for direct consumption for quite a while. Companies rent these out and sell filters as well, with bells and whistles such as making ice cubes, instant boiling, self cleaning etc. Funnily enough they explicitly state in their manual only to hook up to mains water and not ground water since it can degrade its lifespan.
I have not researched it yet, but are you certain about Fiji water being akin to filtered tap?
Fiji is pretty much the only water I drink. Should I use a reverse osmosis system on my tap water instead?
It's much worse, and the company is incredibly evil. Dr. Anita Kelman, Professor of Environmental Science at Champlain College in Vermont tested various bottled water, including Fiji, and tap water, many times over many years. The Fiji water had much higher levels of bacterial contamination that any other water, bottled or tap.
@@alittlebitgone Wow, that's really disgusting. I just started researching it for myself; going to stop buying Fiji and use reverse osmosis water instead. Thanks for the info!
Sometimes I am glad that I live in a place where a liter of bottled water is actually like a quarter instead of a dollar plus
Then again I don't actually buy any because the bottles are dogshit to carry around at larger amounts
I live in rural NZ. We have water tanks that collects rain water from the sky. You have a simple filter for drinking water that you change once a year and that’s it.
there are trace amounts (but still present) nasty industrial carcinogens in rain. be careful
I recall an older doc called “Blue Gold” that sought to expose this international corporate scheme of stealing water.
Carrying around a bottle of water has become something of a talisman nowadays. People never used to feel the need to be constantly hydrated, but now it’s don’t leave home without it! And water fountains just won’t do.
I went for a 2 hour walk yesterday, and didn't see a single water fountain.
I live in a city that has great low chlorine water and regularly drink all my water from the tap. That said, I understand where many need to buy bottled water. My parents have well water, and even though they treat it & run it through a Brita, it will still smell putrid after sitting in a glass for a couple hours. Growing up we’d always get our drinking water delivered in gallon jugs.
I always bring this up, I live in South Africa and we're one of the few countries in the world where you can drink tap water throughout the whole country and people are such suckers for offering these companies sell them tap water but for a thousand times the price
The only water I use for drinking and cooking is Publix brand spring water, in gallon HDPE plastic jugs. I researched spring water sources years ago, and found that that sold by the local grocery chain to be the best option. I no longer recall details, but I know at the time, I was skeptical of national brands, that did not disclose the actual springs from which the water came, and most information suggested there were many. I simply trust the Publix brand, in this instance. The water in the house where I live, is treated well water. It contains a lot of iron, sulfur, and other added salts. At age 81, I guess one could say that I am set in my ways. :)
I live in a city that is large, but only 53 years old, in Florida. So only half of the city is on city water and sewer.
I am on well. I showed my wife a test with 4 different bottled water, and our warer after going through our home RO system. Our water had less particles of impurity than all 4 bottled water. I have a testing kit. And we have no water bill.
And occasionally, the city has a "boil water notice" because if a pipe break or whatever. If the grid goes down, I can still bring water up from my well.
As a plumber, I would definitely recommend bottled water
I love being able to just open the tap and drink that water. honestly. The previous places I lived had water that was perfectly safe to drink, but tasted like ass, so I still ended up getting water in those 10L bags in a box. Not having to buy and stock up any water at all is awesome! so cheap, so convenient, takes up no storage room, you never have to go "crap I have to go to the store cuz I have no water to drink"
What I have found best for me is the Zero water filters then adding back minerals via something like 3rd Wave Water. The zero water is good enough for me to just drink normally or make iced tea, etc. but picky about my coffee and use the 3rd wave to buffer some of the acidity in coffee.
I won´t defend any brand but Fiji tastes better than any water I´ve ever had.
I second that, and I still haven’t heard anything on this video accusing Fiji of being tap water.. Of course we all know that Dasani is filtered tap water, Coke didn’t claim it came from anywhere special nor that anything was done to it but being filtered. I don’t doubt most water brands are manipulative and doing these things however, there’s no way someone can say that Fiji water tastes like any other water or that it’s just tap water. But really, I ain’t defending them either. I just want that good water.
Here in the UK and the Netherlands we have a company called Bottle Up which sells bottled water but they come in reusable bottles made from sugar cane. The only issue I have with it is I fear that in some cases people will just treat them like normal bottled water and throw out the bottles when they're done. It's also £3-5 for a 500ml / 17.6(ish)oz bottle which IMO will only push people back to Nestle/Coca Cola.
I was living in a city for a while where I had to live off bottled water for a while. The tap water was safe, but it tasted like algae, apparently they would have blooms in the reservoirs and they couldn't get the flavor out with a reasonable amount of filtering. Added to this there wasn't a tap in the house that was compatible with standard water filters. It sucked.
My parents sometimes buy bottled water for one reason: the bottle (or more precisely, the thing you drink from).
There are some bottles which have an anti spill thing screwed on the bottle. This is meant for sporters, but it is useful at other times as well.
Those bottles get reused a lot though, and they don't buy them often. It probably comes down to one or two per year on average
thats interesting, those "sports" bottles basically disappeared a few years ago here in Portugal. Probably because they use too much plastic. They were very popular for some time though
@@fgsaramago yeah i remeber i read a f..t that used it for douching 🤣🤣
I've always known (and declared) that bottled water is the world's biggest scam. I use tap-filled reusable bottles whenever I can, especially with the quality of the tap water here in Toronto. And yes, you can swim in Lake Ontario again, that scare was a generation ago.
How about Lake Erie though...
@@silvenshadow Lake Erie has been safe to swim in for over a decade now. (I live right by it)
@@AngelineProductions nice! I left WNY in the mid 90s and it wasn't ideal. I'm glad it's improved!
californian tap water tastes disgusting....
As a brazilian, seing "bottled water is the world's biggest scam" alongside "here in toronto" makes your comment seem really one sided. Bottled water truly is safer than tap water in an astoundingly large portion of the world, so no, in my opinion it ain't a scam at all. Besides, good quality bottled water is quite cheap around here
Another slam dunk of a video. It’s 100% true and super scary what corporations can do to municipal water supplies. Feels like sci fi movie levels of dystopian evil.
My city in Texas has absolutely terrible tap water, so I'll be sticking to the bottled stuff
You could try to run it through an activated carbon (Britta etc.) filter to see if that won’t allow you to break free of the ridiculous scam. It might be worth a try.
One of the most expensive bottle water brands is tap water from the municipal water supply of Chicago. (Hinkley Bottled Water) It even says so on the bottle.
Not a Fiji water ad before this video 😂😂😂😂
No way 😭😅
what makes you think tap water is free? I pay a water bill every month
Most of these companies negotiate with local governments to not pay for water as a way to add jobs
Compared to any other bills you have and especially the price of a water bottle, tap water is practically free. Unless you're in some horrible places where the tap water is a scarce resources... that might have something to do with some greedy companies you can name.
compare the amount of your water bill, to what you might pay per month if all you drank is bottle water. It's significantly less $$ from your tap. And your monthly water bill also includes showers, dishwashing, laundry, and flushing the toilets. And it's still less than drinking bottled water.
Bottled water is the scam I most enjoy falling for 🤣
I live in New Zealand and a few decades ago we were installing a factory in Malaysia that turn reconstituted milk into ice-cream. We had to drink bottled water. Good chance it would make a sick. Our stomachs wouldn't be used to it. We tried cooking for our dinner. When we boiled something liked potatoes they still tasted like it had been cooked dirt
My wife won't drink anything but bottled water and it has always bothered me. We have a good local source of water. My son and I mainly drink water that is filtered by our refrigerator.
This is what I hate about these kinds of claims. Tap water in my area of Montreal is different with each community. While tap water made me feel much worst when I was sick, Fiji water actually helped, and I got better in a few days. These types of claims is just not true. Different communities have different filtration methods, and some (like mine) add way more chemicals than they should.
If you're in the US you should be able to find a report of whatever your municipal water is adding.
@@matt45540 Montreal is in Canada.
a counter top filter like a Berkey will remove those chemicals and save you some money in the long run.
The video goes over this... no less than three different times
This is just anecdotal evidence of one person.
Hate that people say tap water is "free" it is not free. You pay for it.
Not me living in Cleveland and getting so excited when it was mentioned. It is a little bit ironic for Fiji to use Cleveland considering we live next to a Great Lake and our water intake is 3 miles out from our shore, giving us some of the safest drinking water in America.
I know bottled water is a scam. But my tap, even filtered, tastes like shit. That’s why I buy bottled water.
Bottled water is a rip-off, but most tap water tastes revolting. We drilled a borehole on our Devon UK farm. Perfect mineral balance and the best tasting water ever. Also saved £100s a year.
I live in Durban, South Africa. Water is pretty terrible here, and our family does drink bottled water. However our major water brand her is Aquelle and not Coke & definitely not Nestle.
I grew up in Maine, actually just a couple towns over from Poland. I kinda got spoiled by the tap water quality. It didn't even used to have chlorine in it until a moose died in the water supply. (A very Maine problem to have.) And since then it's been minimally chlorinated.
Where I went to school, on the other hand, right by Lake Ontario, the water tasted pretty much like pool water. And now where I live in Texas it tastes rubbery or like it was treated with iodine but the second tablet to precipitate the iodine out wasnt used. Even pitcher filters and my fridge filter weren't getting it out.
Being someone who refuses to buy bottled water, it's been a struggle. But I finally got a reverse osmosis system and I'm so excited to just have some damn good tasting water for once. Which is kinda sad. You'd hope this would be less of an issue in such a developed country.
I wish people would actually think about big corporations
Well, what's even worse is that "Smart Water" isn't really that good of an idea (or smart for that matter). I remember one of the financial advisors saying once "People pay $3 for a bottle of Smart Water....? That's not very smart if you ask me."
Love his videos. One of the best documentaries about water I have ever come across
All the spring and purified bottled water Nestle was selling are now owned by Blue Triton. I have no idea who they are.
I've lived in a places with frequent "boil warnings" for the water or where the water supply simply didn't work at all. (First world country, just terribly cities.). We've always kept at least a 3 day supply of water on hand (in the big 4 liter jugs) in case we couldn't use the tap water for whatever reason.
Wow that's terrible to hear and probably not a uncommon reality for a lot of people nowadays sadly...
I've heard it suggested that a big reason why the fires were so bad in Australia, a few years back, was because so much of the water was being sucked up by private companies, leaving little left for everyone else, and causing rivers and streams to dry up.
I got those water tests strips, 24 or so parameters. Tried on my tap water (Southwest Michigan) after a Brita filter and on Evian. No difference.
Bottled water is simply cleaner here and tastes better. Even if corporations provides you with literal tap water - they still have to filter it at least a little before selling.
Love this episode. I only have a box of that in my car in case I need them in any situations but still eye-opening to see the facts.
We keep a couple of cases of bottled water (and some gallon jugs) in the pantry as part of our emergency supplies. Beyond that, its countertop water filtration for us. Our city has rathet sketchy tap water, so going straight from the tap just really isn't a good option.
In the clip from the Evian ad shown at 5:19 it even says in German on the bottom of the screen 'Evian is pure and natural like all mineral water'. Probably a mandatory disclaimer for advertising such products in Germany.
I have a problem where when I travel to my in-laws house and they have some of the most atrocious tap water I have ever tasted, but they don't care and just ignore the taste. So, to keep my family from going insane when we visit, we pretty much have to buy a case of bottled water.
It’s hard to connivence ppl it’s the same water when it taste so different