One thing I’ve come to the conclusion about these days is how easy it is for us as a society to produce garbage and overspend our resources. Just one example of this is simple bottled water. Now a lot of people will right now be saying “well how’s that a waste?” but we must consider that even though we can recycle water bottles because their plastic or glass doesn’t mean people will. Also consider how much energy and materials it takes to filter the water and then bottle and package it. Now I’m not going to go crazy on this but bottled water is a waste of money unless you’re taking a trip or going out somewhere. Since we have water readily available on tap we should at least be trying to drink it. Brita filters can be bought for your tap if you dislike city water that is highly chlorinated or well water that stinks for example. This will eliminate most most taste and smell problems associated with tap water good for drinking and cooking. It’s a cheaper alternative to bottled water and far less waste especially if you DON’T recycle. Now given it can’t eliminate bacteria in water so in those cases there are not many alternatives. In cases such as those water jugs are an alright alternative and are just returned and refilled or swapped. So for people who drink bottled water often, try something different and buy a reusable water bottle if necessary. It still costs money to be recycling all of these water bottles or to be disposing of them!

I have one of these at home and it works great. The only issue I see some people having is that the water does not come out super fast. It comes out in a smaller stream about 1/4 normal. The cost for a filter is $15 and it is supposed to do 400 liters. That is less that 4 cents a liter. Way cheaper than bottled water.
Also, if you are going on a hike, just get a refillable bottle. I have one from Rubbermaid that I have been using for a year. Works great and no wasted bottles.
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Perhaps you are right although all I wish to say is that if we at least limit the amount of bottled water we drink we reduce the need for excess packaging when we could just drink home filtered water. I appreciate the comment none the less. Have a good day.
I really enjoyed this post, especially the “examples in this post” portion which made it really easy for me to SEE what you were talking about without even having to leave the article. Thanks