Good thing one of those is required for civilization, ye, life itself to function, and the other is wrapping water in a plastic container. Certainly agriculture must use water more efficiently, but let’s not compare apples to oranges.
Yes, let's not compare drinking water directly per droplet needed. To wasting billions of gallons of water to grow some almonds in dry California for economic reasons
You have made a strawman where I said growing almonds was a great idea or something - it isn’t and should be stopped, but let’s not sit here and act like Nestle is anything but a dreg scraping parasite. Farming practices in the US should change, and all water bottling should be banned permanently.
> and all water bottling should be banned permanently.
There has been an issue with the municipal water supply where I live for the past 2 months.
It started with the entire town of ~2k people getting some sort of gastro virus within 2 days. The pharmacy was sold out of everything imaginable, most stores were short staffed, etc.
Then the third day the muni posted on Facebook that they were going to be performing "maintenance" on the system. They then shut off the water for 2 days.
Here we are 2 months later and are still dealing with pressure, color, turbidity, odor issues. They have not provided any additional information beyond "maintenance".
I suppose I could import a sufficient whole house water filtration system and import the replacement filters for eternity. Even then, nobody knows exactly what the issue is with the water, so I'd be grasping at straws or purchasing the most expensive possible system that treats every known potential issue.
So, yeah, we're drinking bottled water for now until there's consensus that the municipal water supply is safe to drink again.
I think there's a middle ground here. they should be bringing in large jugs of bottled water for you folks.
We don't need small plastic bottles for everyday use.
It’s not a straw man at all. It is the definition of distraction to even be discussing an edge case of water consumption. You can completely eliminate all bottled water and it will not make a dent whatsoever in any problem that matters.
Yes… it is a strawman, you just keep responding to something I never said. I mentioned regulating farming’s use of water in each of these posts. I simply am not going to sit here and act like bottling water is somehow “”ok”” according to some posters here; it is a complete waste of resources and a source of pollution and micro plastics.
> I simply am not going to sit here and act like bottling water is somehow “”ok””
Bottling water is okay! People need to drink water, bottling water doesn’t use that much water, and convenience is good! We should recycle the plastic but that’s a separate issue altogether.
More proof that the biggest threat to the environmental movement is environmentalists.
Now, bottled water has its use but if you are running a construction site you know damn well you have better and cheaper options (towable water bowsers, citerns, tanks, etc.).
Agriculture uses about 80-85% of California's water, yet when there's a drought environmentalists point at lawns and swimming pools as the culprit.
In fact, ag water in the US is super low compared to residential rates, which is why CA grows almonds and lettuce.
Farms may be required, but their inefficiency and waste are not necessary at all. Very few industries become more efficient without cost pressures.
Is bottled water wasteful? Compared to what? Do you dislike it because it's commercial? Farms aren't commercial? is your belief in something's utility to society is how we should judge human activity?
