By Trevor Reichman
One couple on Wa$ted was spending over $1100 a year on bottled water!
It is now common knowledge that bottled water is often just filtered tap water. What we are paying for is the packaging, advertising, shelving, transportation, and the company's profit after paying their employees, CEO, etc. It is healthy to participate in the marketplace, but just for the sake of it? What is next? Bottled air?
Yesterday I walked into a convenience store. I asked the friendly woman at the counter if I could pay a quarter to fill up my own bottle with their water. She excitedly told me that I could do so for free and that there is a water dispenser attached to the lemonade dispenser.
Believe it or not, their free water has the exact same ingredients as the water they were charging $1.79 for. Those ingredients are two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen. No, there weren't any "smart" additives in the free water, no clever quotes or fortunes on the wrapper or under the cap, but I think I still came out ahead. With the saving from just a few bottles, I could buy multivitamins and a book on clever quotes to last me a year.
All I had to do was ask.
The average price for a liter of bottled water is $1. Purchasing a liter at a time means that bottled water costs the same as gasoline, or about $4 a gallon.
