Shun9821

I was watching MSNBC today to find out that, Aquafina Water is really Tap Water!!!! I am in total shock. We pay a lot of money for bottle water everyday. If I had know this I could have bottled my own water at the house. We spend too much money to be tricked!

.	Is your bottled water coming from a faucet? - TODAY: Food & Wine ... (7/21/2004)
	Pepsi's Aquafina is now the best-selling water brand in the U.S., while Coke's Dasani ranks second. European giant Nestle has the biggest share of the bottled water market with a number of brands ...
	http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5467759/

EXPLODING SALES: MARKETING A PERCEPTION OF PURITY

Over half of all Americans (54 percent) drink bottled water, and about 36 percent of us imbibe regularly (more than once a week). ^[34] Sales have nearly tripled in the last decade, to about $4 billion in 1997, rising from 4.5 gallons per year for the average American in 1986 to 12.7 gallons per year per person in 1997. ^[35] Americans consumed a total of 3.43 billion gallons of bottled water in 1997 (see Figure 1). ^[36] Globally, the market was estimated in 1995 to be worth more than $14 billion annually in wholesale sales, and it has certainly grown since then. ^[37] According to a 1992 inventory, there were already 700 brands of bottled water produced by about 430 bottling facilities in the United States, ^[38] a number that likely has grown since that time, because of the enormous expansion in bottled water sales.

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Ravsoma

..You didn't know it was tap water? O_O Most of the bottled water is.

AmberD

It sucks because I buy it all the time. I can't always carry about a glass of water or I would.

JubesInquest

I only like the flavored bottled water.

Dasani, Aquafina, Nestle, Fruit2-0, Clear Fruit -----I drink all the flavored kind. I can get a glass of tap water whenever (which is ok with me), but I'd rather have the flavored waters. They're pretty good.

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sillyjilly

mineral and spring waters will say so in their name or on the bottle somewhere. Spring water comes from a natural spring, and mineral water also needs to come from a natural source, but have a higher mineral content. regardless, i still drink the bottled tap water ones every now and then just for the convenience factor

misskitty3

I know that I'm a water snob, so I only drink Fiji or Evian... yes, it costs more but i want something that tastes good.

I'll take the pepsi challenge with Fiji and Aquafina any day!

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dawn9800

I only buy bottled water for the convenience factor or I would drink tap water..its really all the same..Fiji is soo soo good though!

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unwillingly_loved

i dont really buy bottled water, generally i'll get water from a tap or i'll drink fruit juice/nectars. I knew that tap water was bottled though.

patricias213

NYC tap water is very clean. My daughter's pediatrician even recommended that i use the tap water for my baby. He says people are just wasting money buying bottled water in NYC.

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Autumn

I don't buy bottled water, I think it's a waste of money. I did buy one once and it was disgusting, it tasted dirty. Now if I want to take water with me I get an empty coke or whatever bottle and fill it from the tap.