The Bottled Water Addiction
Almost everyone has picked up a bottle of “designer” water at one time or another. It started as a convenience, when making a pit stop for gasoline, restroom, and munchies while traveling. If you’re really thirsty, nothing can take the place of water. When you’re away from home, grabbing a bottled water from the refrigerator makes a lot of sense…it’s so easy to take it with you. Not to mention the fact that no one in their right mind would enjoy drinking from the typical service station or convenience store drinking fountain. In the first place, the basin is usually almost full of water that has already traveled through someone else’s mouth. The reason for this backup is the three wads of old chewing gum, a peach pit, six cherry stems, and thirty or forty sunflower seed shells that other previous users left behind. Pretty hard to focus on how refreshing the drink is.
So, occasionally, while out and about, everyone from time to time grabbed a bottle of water packaged by a soft drink company or even a water bottling company. It could have been started by someone selling “spring” water. Then, when the big guys noticed how much water was being sold, and how little regulation there was on bottled water, everyone started to get into the act. Now, the bottled water business seems as big as the soft drink business. We are constantly bombarded by bottled water advertisements and commercial messages. Maybe brainwashed is a better word.
Now, it is amazing how many people you know or see that only drink bottled water. It is almost like a status symbol. Everyone carries a bottle of designer water everywhere they go, and drinks it exclusively, even at home. And it’s not like bottled water is universally safer or more healthy. Bottled water is much less regulated than tap water in the United States. As much as half of the bottled water sold is just bottled tap water, maybe with some extra sodium or other really healthy additive to make it taste better. Maybe it’s time to face the facts: we’re hooked. The brainwashing has gotten to us to the point where we’ve become addicted to bottled water. Take a look around, and notice what percentage of people you see in their daily activities are drinking bottled water, and I think you’ll agree. It’s time to move away from this philosophy, and move to something that is healthy for our bodies instead of cool. We must make sure we are drinking clean, pure water from some kind of water filter product. Whether it’s a home water filter or a portable water filter, make sure that your body is getting the correct amount and correct type of water.
