Aquafina Bottled Water - Direct From The Tap To You

For years I have been telling my friends who rave about the quality of bottled water over tap water that they are being duped. For example, we have a popular brand here in Dallas called Ozarka. If you buy the "drinking water" version, not the stuff from the spring, you get Grand Prairie Municipal Water Supply H2O. It says so on the label.

Now Aquafina, the fancy sounding water form Pepsi is going to print its mysterious source on its label as well, "Public Water Source"! Damn I am proud to live in a country where you can just turn on a tap and bottle the water and sell it back to the stupid fools that live here at premium prices!

I am reminded of a segment on Penn and Teller's Bullshit where they filled fancy bottles from a garden hose and served it in a high priced restaurant and asked diners to sample the subtle differences in the premium waters. People went on and on about the distinct flavors and even the bouquet of the tap water. Again, what a country?

One of the great benefits of living in America is that our water supply is one of the safest in the world. Tap water from Dallas or New York or even Detroit is safe to drink. Go to Mexico and drink the tap water for a few days. Then when you recover from the diarrhea get back to me on the water in America. So why do we buy water in bottles? Well we are suckers for any con man who comes along and tells us that we are special and "deserve the best". We already have it, but we just can't see it. The answer is as clear as the water from our tap.