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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by ilovecars2 on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:07PM (#16363601)
A colleague of mine purchases 12x 500ML bottles of Evian a week. That will be over 600 bottles of water in 2018, not including the bottled water he drinks at home.

Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water, but I can’t help but cringe at the thought of 600 plastic bottles going into landfill. I avoid bottled water as much as possible, however when required I admit I do purchase 6 packs of 2L bottles for long road trips.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by wutbrodo on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:25PM (#16363708)
> Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water

I guess it depends on where you live, but this is definitely not the case for me. And I live in a 111 year old building.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by lancewiggs on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:33PM (#16363745)
Old lead pipes apparently do make water taste sweeter...
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by lwansbrough on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:44PM (#16363814)
I did this when I was in Thailand and thought it was completely insane and wasteful. It's shocking people do this because they don't like the taste of their tap water. Just purify it if you hate it that much? Also, the taste of any water pretty much disappears once you get used to it, so the thought of someone hating tap water is just absurd.
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