Do you have reference to your claim that Cleveland tap water beat Fiji water in blind taste tests?

I ask because I have an otherwise cool friend who drinks Fiji (her “one bad thing”) and who will not believe your claim just because it is in a video on the internet.

If I had such a reference I could convince her and others to quit.

I searched the News search engine at Google and came up with nothing.

Great video, BTW, I liked it so much I put it on my blog:

http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?p=1301

Anyone know where I can get an anti-bottled water poster that shows a trash heap made up of old water bottles?

I am baffled by your Fiji-lover friend’s logic, BeforeWisdom.

Surely, she just needs to taste her own local tap water and realize that there is no difference?!

Unless, of course, she needs to see what the crowd is doing before she can take personal action.

For the sake of some drama, you might want to create a double-blind test with a statistically significant number of her friends in order to “prove” the case.

Chris Jordan’s photos from Midway Atoll deserve to be included in the case against bottled water. http://www.chrisjordan.com/ Too few people have even heard of the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, let alone seen the photos of what it is doing to the Laysan Albatross. Just try counting the number of plastic bottle tops in those sad and disturbing pictures. Next worst offender: “disposable” plastic lighters.

A very good video, and I agree with all parts EXCEPT for:

you make NO MENTION about fluoride, and that is the main reason why so many people do not want to drink tap water. A lot of research has, and is now being done on the fact that fluroide is poisoning us. Please refer to this video for one, although there are many other sources available:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/
http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/toxic.html

If we can stop fluridation and be sure our water’s clean (stop chem-trails etc…) I will be one of the first to promote drinking tapwater and doing away with those dreaded plastic bottles…

I just wanted to say that Annie is my Hero. She has gone out there and done what -some- the rest of us have only talked and dreamed about doing. Thank you, Annie for making it all so clear for us. Your video totally Shocked me into awareness -though I suppose it should not have, We see this everyday with our own eyes, Are, in fact, part of it everyday. This has changed my life -I hope- and the way I see everything. i have shared your video with all my friends on face book and will continue to spread the word. God bless.

Problem is, my tap water has aluminium, mercury, and lead in it, and tatses like crap making the tea look dirty too ! that’s why i bought a water filter.
Also alot of tap water contains flouride and chlorine (to dumb people down and gives them cancer and osteoperosis, but is a good way to dump expensive to erradicate, fluorine from industrial waste, please research this), so I won’t drink tap water. They could filter it properly but they don’t and it gets contaminated from old water pipes along the way ! Also the fluoride etc is deliberate.

In anycase, when out and about, if you ask for tap water in a resturant or sandwich bar, you get met with a stern look like you are a ‘freeloader’ and they politely tell you in most case, no….
So that’s a nonsense.

I will say plastic bottles do give off plastic vapours which cause cancer and so plastic bottles are bad. use water bottles and recycle them !