Here at Soloflex we try to educate people on the positive effects of exercising and eating right. If you put good in you will get good out. If you put bad in you will probably get bad out. This is now true of the water we drink. Bottled water is becoming a very serious health issue for us and for our planet. Stay away from the bottled water. The water has, in most brands, tested positive for many dangerous particles. The plastic is toxic to you and the planet. The cost is enormous to produce and to dispose of. Please watch the enclosed videos to help understand this very serious health issue. Again, we all need good in and this includes the Earth.
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June 14, 2010 at 11:42 pm
What a great resource!
May 14, 2011 at 11:24 am
Thinking about this subject hurts my head. It is not a black & white issue, but one of many shades of grey.
Sure, plastic water bottles are bad for the environment to produce and they add to the volume of landfills, but soda and milk and other things also use plastic bottles. Where is the public outcry against soda and milk? Chemicals leech into the water from the plastic, but they also leech into soda and milk, do they not?
Isn’t it better to drink water than soda? For years, we have heard this. Bottled water has prompted more people to drink water than ever before. Tap water can have just as many chemical agents in it as does bottled water. Many older plumbing systems with there metal pipes and lead solder leave unpleasant things in the water. Tap water is not always an option, and not all tap water is pure. Some public water fountains can be quite disgusting
It is a bit expensive for what you’re buying. Probably the best example of slick marketing in history. As for the shipping issues, we excessively ship EVERYTHING, not just water. The average meal has more frequent flyer miles than most people accumulate in a lifetime.
One of the main issues here should be “disposable plastic containers”, no matter what is in them. The problem with our “Disposable Society” goes far deeper than water bottles. I just don’t see us going back to the days of glass returnable soda and milk bottles, no matter how badly we need to… not to mention cloth diapers.
There are many places in the world that have no access to clean tap water. Bottled water is the only option for many people. Considering what is lurking in these tainted water supplies, a little BPA is the lesser of the two evils. Given the choice, I’d choose BPA over parasites or fecal matter or cholera any day.
We are fortunate to live where clean water is abundant beyond many people’s belief. Water is, or at least should be, more precious than oil or diamonds or gold, but we squander it as if it were nothing. Every living thing on earth needs water. I can’t think of anything that NEEDS oil, gold, or diamonds. The amount of water we waste is sinful. We waste it in pools and ornamental fountains and car washes and manufacturing. We use pure clean fresh water to flush our toilets. We really need to rethink a lot of what we do with water.
Instead of spending billions on fighting wars and creating enemies around the world, we should be spending this money trying to figure out new ways to filter and purify water. We should first of all, stop polluting it so badly. Throughout history, we have abused water as if it meant nothing. We are concerned with air quality and air pollution, but water quality and water pollution is a far greater issue.
“Water rights” is going to be a MAJOR conflict issue in the near future. Instead of being a politicized issue, it should be examined and put to the most beneficial use. Huge companies should not be allowed to control EVERYTHING they set their sights on. That is NOT what a Democracy should allow. Our Capitalist economy has gotten a bit too far off track, and it’s pulling to The Right, I think.
I have not seen this film. The second trailer gets a bit more into the political issues it tackles. It would definitely be worth watching. There are no easy answers to this predicament we are in, or to the one we are facing in the not so distant future. We are over a barrel either way. Water is being used as scapegoat and as a tool against us. I have been reading through the Blog archives, responding to many of the posts and articles. This one has been, by far, the most difficult one to reply to. It is an issue that touches not only every American, but every person on the planet… indeed, every living thing. Thank you, Connie, for making me wrestle with this important topic.