Why do people buy bottled water anyway. You can get it from fractions of a penny at home.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Some of us don't have trustworthy water supplies and infrastructure
The UK has a growing problem with contaminated, unreliable tap water.
My tap water comes straight from the alps, better than bottled water 🙃
I usually think this, but then remember what water down south tastes like.
The slightly bolded "not" really sells it.
I would bet my wallet that this water is objectively worse than tap
Is it from Dasani Peckham Springs?
Water from the ditch round the back, now with no bits!
But the floaty bits were my favorite :(
Those are vitamins and minerals.
By far, the best part of finding a loose needle in the wild is the tetanus.
The label is raising a lot of questions already answered by the label
Do they also sell no longer table water?
If you put it in a bowl it becomes dog water.
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got, I’m still table water from the block.
Do they have water for tables that can't keep still?
Those are water tables.
Why can I taste bleach then?
because pure spring water without chlorine is how you get cholera, typhoid fever, giardiasis, and hepatitis A.
I'm pretty sure it is from some tap
For legal purposes, they’ve trademarked the tap water filling spout and have all signed contracts forbidding them from revealing its name.
Ol’ Squirty George enjoys a life of privacy, although not one free of controversy, as people constantly ask “but that’s just tap water, isn’t it?” and then they have to sign an NDA before being told that’s not a tap, that’s Ol’ Squirty George.
When the lawyers come for me, tell my wife I wish I’d planned better.