Why do people pay premium prices for water?

You're right.. and a '91 Tercel will take you the same places that a Ferrari will. A Coleman stove will do the same thing that a Wolf burner does; a Holiday Inn room has a bed and bathroom (so why pay for the Ritz?)

It's marketing and conveinence. I use a Brita water jug when I'm at home (ever try CA tap water?) and use bottled water when I'm on the move. There is a subtle difference in taste between all the different brands but you really can't argue that "water is water" if you've done any research on the subject at all.

 

Many companies use municipal water that's then filtered and given some name that sounds clean and refreshing....or just plain Yuppie. Dasani...Aquafina...Glaciano.

It's a good alternative to non-bottled beverages if you are out and about, and I druther take my chances with a bottle of filtered municipal tap water than some of the other options out there.

 

LOL. Where was it that some mental giant patched a sewer pipe into a fresh water main? Filters on people's fridges were getting clogged up with toilet paper.

 

You will never ever catch me paying for water.

 

same thing, why buy a ferrari when a corvette will do the same thing?? ha

na, i met the fiji founders, pretty pretty pretty pretty well off since fiji came out, granted they actually do bottle the stuff over in fiji, then ship it, then sell it over here... stupid waste in resources if you ask me, but hey, wish i had thought of it first...

 

Its not too late to ship bottled water out of the UK.

 

Not me. I hate it when water tastes like crap.

 

also i have heard bad things about the coca-cola company's water brand. Dasani

i dont know how true, but i have heard it comes from a natural fresh-spring of water in another country. the only thing is that that spring is less than 4 miles away from a nuclear power plant. therefore contamnating the water.

i have heard this several times from several different people.

i dont know if i should disclose what country it is.

 

People can say water is water.......taste Fiji water, so clean and no chlorine taste like most bottle waters (aquafina).

To each his own, but I don't mind the $2 for fiji, a bottle of snapple is $2.

 

It is funny when people complain about $3 a gallon for gas and then they pay $2 for a bottle of water or $5 for a cup of flavored coffee!

I buy bottled water and $5 coffee, but I don't complain about the $3 gas. It is all marketing and media based.

Matt

 

I only drink water from the fridge's filter and complain about $2.35 for premium 93.

 

Buying bottled water is understandable - it's convenient and can taste better than your tap (not mine though). But why do people insist on getting a certain more expensive brand. Kroger water was $3 for a 24-pack, and most people went for the Kroger water but some people bought the $12 for a 24-pack stuff.

 

It's true that 70% of the earth is water, but would you drink it without treatment? Most of it has too high a salt content or bacteria counts, etc.... So I don't understand your point. If you think that the water treatment, water pipes, restaurant ice machines are all clean then I don't see why you would pay for bottled water. Further, a lot of "premium" waters have no filtering and no advantage other than a possible taste difference.

I drink 2 liter bottles of "Good quality H20" a day. It's filtered... I know it's clean.... and I know I'm drinking a good amount every day without having to count glasses.

I get 20 cases at a time.

http://www.aquafina.com/

You need to re-watch the Waterboy if you don't think there is a diff.
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It's not all the same, but I don't buy the expensive bottled water, I buy the stuff that is like .30/gallon.

And to set the record straight, earth is made up of about 70% water.
Of all available water, only 3% is 'drinkable', the other 97% is salt water.
Of the 3% that is 'drinkable', 2% is in frozen ice caps or is underground, which leaves us with a world drinkable water supply of 1%, and a fair chunk of that is polluted with farm chemical runoff into streams and rivers.

 

Salt water can be converted to drinking water. They already do that in some places.

 

desalination plants are expensive to build and consume a lot of energy to process the water. The cost per gallon probably is somewhere around premium water prices.

 

+1

 

Here is Pittsburgh we call tap water "city gin"

It's pretty bad.

I ussually buy the big grocery store jugs.

 

The water from my 883' deep well taste better than any bottled water...in fact. several of my friends as well as my housekeeper fill up jugs of it to carry home with them to drink...nothing tast like water from a deep well.