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How do you spend $25'000 on bottled water? Where I'm from it costs 16.5 cents per liter. That includes a 2 cent tax for recycling the PET Bottle.

$25'000 is more than you need in several lifetimes.

But then again, tab water here is excellent and also cool. So I don't see a reason why I should transport bottled water. It is much more convenient and cheaper.



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There's not very expensive filtration systems rated for 100,000 gallons.

The standard kirkland bottled water you see in the US in the standard 80 unit packs would run you $195,000 for that.

Municipal water would be about $1,500 for that + $150 filter.

It's a 99.2% cheaper option. Oh right and the 1.6 million water bottles you'd not have produced, right.


> How do you spend $25'000 on bottled water? Where I'm from it costs 16.5 cents per liter. That includes a 2 cent tax for recycling the PET Bottle.

Many people drinking bottled water aren't drinking the cheapest in the supermarket - the recycling bin outside my flat is regularly filled with 1.5l evian bottles - they're £1 each in the local shop. At one bottle a day, that's ~35 person-years. Not common, but not insane.

However, my office has 17 people on my floor. If everyone here drank one bottle of it a day, we'd hit it in 2 years.


> Many people drinking bottled water aren't drinking the cheapest in the supermarket - the recycling bin outside my flat is regularly filled with 1.5l evian bottles - they're £1 each in the local shop. At one bottle a day, that's ~35 person-years. Not common, but not insane.

Even given expensive name brand water, a $50 filter cartridge only lasts for six months. That's $3150 for the same period. $50 replacing $25,000 is not grounded in reality.


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