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That they need to buy cases and cases of water in plastic bottles which they throw in the landfill instead of just drinking their perfectly good tap water.
Depending on your municipality, sure.
Don't know why you got downvoted. I drank tap water in India and threw up 3 times before leaving the office. I've seen the data center water and it looked worse.
Ummm, my tap water isn't "perfectly good."
Ummm, my comment was addressing the millions of people whose water IS perfectly good but they buy bottled water anyway.
Well mine is actually perfectly good safety-wise, but it tastes like shit. I eventually got a reverse osmosis system so I don't waste any bottles anymore. Instead I waste water. BUT... But, when I'm at other people's houses, if the water tastes fine, I drink that and refuse bottles. This is the best I can do.
In most of Europe, it is.
Plenty of people saying their tap water is not good. Just buy/install an RO for your tap ya dummy. They aren't that expensive or difficult to install. Or some kind of brita-type filter. I'm lucky enough to have an in-fridge filter. Cold, clean water on tap. It's the best.
Bottled water companies don't produce water. They produce plastic bottles.
They probably don't even produce the bottles. They probably just put the water in the bottles.
Good point. And it's often just municipal water too. So uh... Tap water.
I live in the US, I’m not drinking the tap water lol. That being said you don’t have to buy cases of individual plastic water bottles either.
And yet millions do. Maybe there's something actually wrong with your water, but the vast majority of municipal water in the US is perfectly fine.
If the tap is chemically fine, but still tastes awful, I get buying bottled water instead
Why would you buy bottled water? Buy a filter