Anyone else see lots of people buying bottled waters?

[lovesthosebeeps]

Like those 1 or 2 litre multipack bottles?

I've just been to Tesco express (it's tiny) and two separate customers were complaining that there wasn't any big bottles of water about

I thought that was a coincidence, but thinking about it, I keep seeing lots of people in Asda and Aldi doing this too!

I mentioned it to the guy at the till and he said he'd seen an increase for sure, though he wasn't sure why. Last time he saw it was during the first lockdown and they ended up restricting the amount you could buy at once anyway

I know people like bottles water for various reasons, and I have a friend who's DS won't have anything else due to his autism. But surely this is unusual?

@TheGenealogist

Never buy bottled water, but do silently judge people in our supermarket with trolleys piled high with bottles, given that what comes out of the taps in Glasgow is excellent.

All the "my tap water is disgusting" people - have you heard yourselves? Tap water in the UK does vary in terms of flavour and composition, as it flows through different rocks. But differences in flavour doesn't make it "disgusting". As others have said, you add lemon, or filter it, or add some squash.

Have they never heard the phrase "single use plastic"? Such selfish behaviour.

It's not negligent not to keep 4 weeks supply in the house either. 5 of us in this house, people saying 4 litres per person per day, that's 20 litres a day, for 28 days, 560 litres or almost 375 bottles of 1.5 litres. Even 5 days water would be 50 bottles of 2 litres each.

In the 14 years we've been here there was a problem with our water once, when they found higher than acceptable levels of cryptosporidium in the local reservoir. Scottish water went door to door handing out 6x2litre packs, and set up in a local car park where you could collect more. Only lasted a couple of says.

Is it nice on your high mountain with excellent water lording it over those who don’t??

So you hear yourself??

Good lord.

Can only repeat, our water is in glass bottles, has been for decades. If it’s wrong to buy that, then so is doorstep milk delivery in glass bottles.

Um no because milk isn't piped to our homes to flow from a handy tap. I can't believe I have to point this out but there is an environmental cost to collecting, recycling, reusing and delivering glass bottles too.

Where in the UK doesn't have excellent water? Where in the UK are people risking dysentery and bilharzia on a daily basis because they don't have access to clean water? That's right, nowhere.

www.ecowatch.com/glass-bottles-harm-environment-2648968467.html A recent study concluding glass is worse than plastic for the environment

@KeflavikAirport

Um no because milk isn't piped to our homes to flow from a handy tap. I can't believe I have to point this out but there is an environmental cost to collecting, recycling, reusing and delivering glass bottles too.

Perhaps milk taps are the next big thing in kitchen design for people who already have filtered / boiling / fizzy water from the tap

ewww, can you imagine?

Bottled water has 3,500 times more environmental impact than tap water: www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/environmental-impact-of-bottled-water-up-to-3500-times-greater-than-tap-water#:~:text=The%20impact%20of%20bottled%20water,tap%20water%2C%20scientists%20have%20found.&text=It's%20quite%20obvious%20that%20the,meet%20annual%20bottled%20water%20demand.

Yes schools have taps but our school has requested we send them in with bottled water so??? I’m not going to have my child only having one drink in 6 hours in the middle of summer.

@PumpkinKlNG

Yes schools have taps but our school has requested we send them in with bottled water so??? I’m not going to have my child only having one drink in 6 hours in the middle of summer.

Here's a radical idea. Buy a bottle of water, then refill it from the tap after washing it out each evening. Should last a school week at the very least.

@WisestIsShe

Ddog won't drink tap water (yes really) so we but this every week.

🤣

You shouldn’t refill plastic water bottles. So no I won’t be doing that.

@PumpkinKlNG

Yes schools have taps but our school has requested we send them in with bottled water so??? I’m not going to have my child only having one drink in 6 hours in the middle of summer.

you need to complain to the school about this policy, and refuse to conform to it.

If the school does not change, then complain to ofsted

Absolutely shocking that schools are trying to pull this - outrageous

Well I’m not going to refuse to send my child in with water and let them go all day without a drink am I.

@PumpkinKlNG

You shouldn’t refill plastic water bottles. So no I won’t be doing that.

Are you seriously saying you are prepared to buy a plastic water bottle, and use it once only?

And has it occurred to you why you are being told you "shouldn't refill plastic water bottles"?

Because it would cut into the profits of the big multinationals supplying the bottles, that is why.

If you don't want to refill a plastic bottle, then provide your child with a refillable bottle

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-not-re-use-plastic-water-danger-dirty-bacteria-bottles-sex-hormones-toilet-a7809696.html%3famp

@PumpkinKlNG

You shouldn’t refill plastic water bottles. So no I won’t be doing that.

You can buy water bottles that are designed for reuse for a few quid. It’s the plastic bottles that come with water already in them that you’re not meant to reuse. I think that poster was referring to the multi use bottles, which would work out cheaper and are better for the environment.

@PumpkinKlNG

Every one I bought has leaked and I’ve given up, you are welcome to buy me ones that don’t leak but I’m not spending any more money hoping it won’t leak only for it to go all over my kids bags and ruins all their books again. The supermarket water bottles say no to reuse them and tbh my kids rarely bring them home even when I’ve asked them to, they say the teachers bin them.

Could you not refill the first water bottle you buy e.g. Evian

and keep reusing them for each dc?

A huge amount of this "my child must have water available at all times" nonsense is a massive myth synthesised by the big multinational bottled drinks companies.

There is a poster a few post back seriously concerned that her child might only have a drink once in a six hour day, in other words, worried that her child might not survive 3 hours without a drink!

Children don't need all thee drinks- its just a habit - for many kids its just the habit that replaces sucking on a dummy

( for many of today's adults too)

There was a poster on AIBU a few weeks ago worried about her habit of going 8 hours without a drink - she wasn't thirsty and didnt need one, but felt she should be forcing herself to have one. Its all nonsense.

In a normal year, ( not covid) there is far more absence from school caused by stomach upsets from sucky sucky sucking repeatedly on dirty water all day than there is through any thirst related issue!

In classrooms these days, virtually every child has a sucky sucky water bottle on their desk, and this has to be the most successful advertising and brainwashing campaign by any industry ever!

In the height of summer yes children do need drinks just like adults do

www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-under-the-sea-water-bottle/p/0507487
Reusable water bottle.

@PumpkinKlNG

In the height of summer yes children do need drinks just like adults do

For about two weeks a year, but even then, not in lactual lessons, they don't. At break time maybe..

But mostly they don't and adults don't either

This whole thing has been invented in the last few years by big multinational drinks companies

How do you think we survived before this fad of sucky sucky bottles?

We didn't drink during the day at school, except at lunch time, and often not then.

Its a complete myth that we needed to

Obviously you need a certain amount of liquid during the day, but water doesn't even rehydrate you particularly, it just dilutes your body fluid so you need to urinate to redress the balance.

I have a cup of tea when I arrive at school in the morning (6.30 am ish) and I have a cup of tea when I get home ( 7.30 pm ish)

Occasionally there is a chance to have another cup in an after school meeting

If its very hot I will have some water at lunch time

This was how we were brought up, and how many of my generation still drink - very few of us ever fell for this big advertising con

@PumpkinKlNG

You shouldn’t refill plastic water bottles. So no I won’t be doing that.

Yes you can.

Like I said my kids school pulls up parents who don’t send their kids in with water and reminds them to. So it’s obviously an issue.