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Kamikuza said..
I buy bottled water because it's cold and doesn't have mountains of sugar and doesn't taste like ****.
I respect your choice to buy bottled water, Kamikuza. However, I also find your argument doesn't quite stack up.
For a start, tap water doesn't have sugar in it. Secondly, tap water doesn't taste that bad. It has a tint of chemical smell because of the chlorine and fluoride. Of course, tap water does taste differently in different areas. Some I find slightly salty some probably has too much chlorine.
In New Zealand, dentists found some school children have more than the normal proportion of tooth decay. What was intriguing was that these cases were in more up-market areas. One would assume that being richer means your dental health is also better. The root cause is possible due to bottled water. Rich kids drink bottled water which doesn't has fluoride added to it. While poorer kids simply drink tap water !
Now I don't want to turn this into whether adding fluoride in tap water causes cancer, or it is a human rights issue. By all means have your bottled water, but for Christ sake, don't just bloody turn the public space into a rubbish dump !