Comments on: WATER WARS

By: Tom Lauria

Tom Lauria — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:06:44 +0000

Most Americans need to drink more water, be it from a bottle or a tap. It is not in the public interest to discourage the consumption of water because its health benefits are beyond debate. Many people select bottled water over other packaged beverages containing sugar, caffeine, colorings, calories, fat and other “extras.” Sometimes when we’re on the go, we just want a refreshing bottle of water, which wise and mindful consumers will always recycle. It’s hard to understand why the simple combination of freedom and responsibility in beverage choices is a problem for some of your readers.

By: ribchick

ribchick — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:19:56 +0000

absolutely not insulted at all! i am a big fan of the delirious, red leather wearing comic and quite a few of his words are to say the least, provocative.

By: Shefzilla

Shefzilla — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:44:33 +0000

ribchick, we love your comments, just can’t post that word, don’t be insulted, like I said we love ya.

By: ribchick

ribchick — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:25:05 +0000

after a couple beers (19.8 x 2 gallons) I remembered this clip and I couldn’t resist.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:46:18 +0000

Wow! Finally a blogger who beats down these environmentalists who cherry-pick bottled water. The plastics of bottled water are such a fraction of the issue as a whole. Let’s look at EVERYTHING; not just one little product…a drop in the bucket, so to speak.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:15:54 +0000

Wisco, It seems disingenuous to call single use water bottles ’simply unnecessary’ because it overlooks the sensible need to keep 3 days worth of potable water available in one’s house for disasters, as per FEMA’s suggestion here (http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/water.shtm).

This is the only reason we have bottled water in the house. If we are drinking bottled water in the house it is because the expiration dates are coming up on the disaster water and we need to go through it. Otherwise we just use the Britta to resolve any taste issues and is cheaper than bottled water. Cost is the real reason why I’ve never gotten into bottled water in this country. However, there are any number of other countries where I would totally use bottled water over tap.

By: shefzilla

shefzilla — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:06:22 +0000

What you call unnecessary, or wasteful is that way to you, in your opinion. I find a latte unessential, and wasteful which indecently uses much more water to produce, cause I don’t drink coffee. On the other hand I am not preaching to ban coffee.

Who said anything about supporting the use of single-use plastic bottles by the way? What I said was; “Obviously no one likes plastic, but it’s cherry picking to argue that bottling water is unethical.”

By: wisco

wisco — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:39:18 +0000

Red herring for what?
Packaging water in single-use plastic containers is simply unnecessary. It’s a waste of resources for nothing. We have public water systems in place already. If you are unhappy with them, you should work with people to make them better, rather than wasting money on packaged water.

By: shefzilla

shefzilla — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:11:26 +0000

Norton certainly comes across as very snarky, what’s up with that? Sure makes you wonder what insecurities the guy is dealing with.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:40:03 +0000

They love you at heavy table shef, they are hanging on your every word.