What is with Americans and their "water snobbery?"?!
Answers: I just sat through an hour long discussion about what kind of filtered (or whatever you call it) water is the best. My co-workers were talking about the lowest parts per million and whatnot. Seriously, why does it matter, do water snobs realize there are people on this planet who are happy to just have water to drink? Besides what difference does it make if this brand of water has 14 parts per million versus that brand of water with 21 parts per million? What harm is the difference of 7 parts per million going to make?
I lived by a fresh water spring for several years and after that I could no longer be satisfied with plain tap water. But as far as labels and parts per million go, I don't really care. I pretty much get the filtered water at the store you can fill your jugs with for 39 cents per gallon. Besides, I hate the nasty waste produced by millions of little water bottles.
We don't want to drink toxic water
Since they pay such outlandish prices for a stupid bottle of water, then they have to find some reason they can latch onto to make it justifiable in their minds. That's why they make a big deal over such trivial things.
i just know that Crystal Geyser costs less...so i buy that. and you know water companies can lie about where they get their water. for example Aquafina by Coco-Cola brand is actually tap water. i thought it was pretty amusing.
Not all americans are like that ......... I live in Mass and the water is very good here, compared to places like Connecticut and New York, D.C., etc. So I don't have a water filter. But if I did live in anyone of these states ........ I would have one, and I would get the best that my money could buy ..... and so wouldn't anyone else who could afford one. I empathize with those fellow humans around the world that have to drink less than healthy water. Its not our fault
Not all Americans buy bottled water! My town water is just fine.
In some areas of the country (like where I live in the North West suburbs of Minnesota) the tap water can actually be dangerous to drink on a regular basis. Scares like this led to people drinking bottled water, this led to over-hyped imported mineral water, which leads to snobbery. But for me, I'm fine with self filling 5-gallon water cooler bottles with purified water at my local grocery store for 39 cents a gallon.
I drink water straight from the faucet. It probably has 100 parts per billion of who knows what. We're not all snobs.
Back in the 60s it was very popular to wear a 35mm camera around your neck. Snobs choice: Nikon. Years later it became gold chains. Snobs choice: anything fat and Italian looking. Now it's a bottle of water. Snobs choice: anything hard to pronounce. Sign of the economy. The choice Coca-Cola had was to call tap water, Brooklyn Water Supply or Desani. Which would you pay more for? Really, I don't know or care, but a lot of this Florida bottled water tastes an awful lot like dirt, but if they used a Brita filter, which is great, nobody would know.
Don't we all want to get healthier? In some parts of the world all the people have to drink is polluted water, and many die because of it. There is progress being made to drill wells for villages, but it is slow. Some countries that have a lot of tourism have water that make tourists sick, so the tourists have to really watch what they drink or what is cooked in the water.
I live in an area in which several towns do not have the best tasting or filtering of the town water. I listened to a conversation this morning in one of the towns and some people drink the water and some people buy bottled or filtered water.
Some people like to pay attention to what it is they are putting in thier bodies so as to be the healthiest that they can be. So the imputities in the different brands of bottled water do make a difference to them.
I'm an American and I don't normally buy bottled water, unless I'm out and the choice is bottled water or some sugary drink My home has a deep well and I filter it .I don't wory about ppm's