start with walmart they sell more than any other store.

You do realize people dont buy bottle of water when they are inside the house, right? When you are outside, and incredibly thirsty, what do you do exactly?

To curious: I take a reusable water bottle, filled with filtered tap water, with me when I leave the house.

One problem with banning all bottled water is what do people do who live where their tap water is not drinkable? Where I live, for many years, we used to get our water from a well. Although technically the water was safe to drink, I had my suspicions about it when I kept getting digestive problems. My doc told me to boil the water. I eventually got a reverse osmosis system, and since then everything has been fine digestively. But, a system like that is expensive and many people can’t afford it.

Also, when we were on a well, if the power went out, we were left without running water. So, I would buy bottled water and keep it in my pantry for just such an occasion.

Not everyone needs bottled water, but there are some instances where there is a need for such a thing.

My sincere kudos for a well-done presentation. Now, if only we could trust that our tap water was as ‘clean & pure’ as Annie suggests, meaning sans all of the lawfully mandated ‘purification’ chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash and for sure, NO ‘sodium fluroide’ which is still [since WWll] being disingenuously touted as essential for the avoidance of dental caries. While fluoride is found naturally in some soils, and can be effective as an intermittently applied topical treatment to teeth, there is no way it should be ‘ingested’ for one’s best reality of neuro and skeletal health. Yet, unbelievably, it is the CDC that wants upwards of 80% of US public water systems to be poisoned with this industry waste by-product by 2012 whether the unwitting public wishes to be so medicinally treated or has a clue about its toxic and accummulative dangers. At present, Washington DC is the only city in the nation with 100% fluoridation of their public drinking water. As one reader astutely relates, the reverse osmosis water filter is effective and capable of removing some if not all fluroide in both the kitchen tap and shower outlets as one will need a filter for each. Again, after we stopped drinking anything other than our own ‘glass bottle tap water’ long ago, this timely and educational tool is a worthwhile presentation that I will be sharing on with others. Thank you!

Ah…cool clear water…It’s practically up there with air in importance. I have questions and would love to hear some answers. I did indeed install a filter on my faucet. Prior to that water coming out of my tap has sometimes been gray or brown…drink it? No Way! Yeah we get a water quality report every year that says our water is just fine…but they’re not testing it outta my tap..godonlyknows how many pipes it travels (not to mention what the pipes are made of and their condition) before squirting out here in my home. And I don’t think the water quality report can test esoterics like pharmaceuticals and their ilk. Years ago, as a kid, I went to camp and had my trusty aluminum canteen…yuck…the water tasted metallic and strange, and I swear developed some kind of sludge in it. Bad me, I now have been buying Arrowhead in their horrible little plastic bottles. I don’t know if the plastics will leach into it. I do recycle all the bottles. Yeah, its flippin expensive. I could buy my own little plastic container and refill it daily from my filtered tap water…some of those containters now say they’re BP whatever free…but what else may they contain? Are they really any better than the little plastic Arrowhead ones? When my kids were in sports I saw a lotta of those personal plastic resusable bottles get really nasty…moldy, smelly…they probably need to be washed daily, with hot, soapy or boiling water. The stainless steel ones are heavy and cumbersome…the aluminum ones…well, look at my camp experience…and some people say aluminum can contribute to Alzheimers. It’s good to have questions…can anyone provide some answers?