I do not think that they should remove bottled water... it is a way for lazy people or people on the go to get that necessary 8 glasses of water per day that we need to stay healthy... i think bottled water is much easier to get and carry with you where ever you go... i live in Rushford, MN and i live on bottled water everyday since we cannot drink the ground water for sometime because of the flood.. even more than what i usually do... so i strongly disagree that we should keep bottled water.... and plus it benefits to recycling too!!!

Posted by: Kayla | October 27, 2007 2:19 AM

Banning bottled water is silly. There are much bigger wastes of plastic out there, and bottled water has to be one of the healthiest wastes for people.
There are too many individual reasons people drink bottled water to ban bottled water as a whole anyway. I live in the barracks, where the tap just tastes strange, and I can't be sure about how clean it actually is (no, I don't trust the government I work for :D), so I drink bottled water.
If anything there should be a movement to persuade people to recycle more.

Posted by: Kim | October 27, 2007 3:14 AM

Ban Bottled water? What are are you people, Fresh off the Stupid Bus!! Ban bottled water then go to tap...If the Source of the water is Contaminated,and you do not have a another CLEAN Back supply,What happens then?? Most people die in 7 days without water....Think and do the reasearch before Falling for what Enviormental Wackos say..SSHHHIISS use your heads people.

Posted by: steven | October 27, 2007 4:58 AM

I would say Nay(No) dont band bottled water. Water is healthy and I know for a diffent fact in some medical fields they use some brands because it is steril. To the general public it is easyier to grab a bottle of water on the run than a glass of water and wait at the tap while you drink it. There are other times when a sip of water is useful and the tap is not available. I also cant start to tell you how much can be saved through the many uses of the recycled plastic that can be done from the bottles. So please put my vote in for NOT STOPPING BOTTLED WATER.
Thankyou

Posted by: Tina | October 27, 2007 5:47 AM

I think we've over complicated things.
Why ban bottled water when all that would probably do is make people buy sugary (plastic bottled) drinks instead which is worse for our health. When really whe should concentrate on the reason why banning bottled water has even entered our minds. PLASTIC IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT! Everyone knows that...
So why not concentrate on teaching our selves to recycle? The government should try making more recyling bins available, more adverts campagines on making people aware of recycling or making more envinronmentally friendly bottles ect.. As for eateries. Make a filter kettle/jug a legal requirement in every restaurant. (I've worked in a restaurant and it's fully possible!)

Ever wondered why they've jumped to the easiest problem solver? Maybe it's because they don't want to spend their money on trying to improve the situation, they'd just rather ban it. Out of sight out of mind.
Well in 10 years time when the polar ice bergs are floating outside their front door, I doubt they could look away then!

Posted by: Kimbee. | October 27, 2007 1:16 PM

Drinking bottled water when your piped drinking water is safe, is like driving an SUV: just irresponsible and anti-social. That said, there is a lot of work to do. I can't even convince my own husband to stop buying it and there's a crate in the kitchen.

Posted by: Kate | October 28, 2007 7:24 AM

Bottled water should not be banned because there are some people who can not drink their tap water because it is either to smelly or it is just plain contaminated. Bottled water is their only source for drinking water just make it mandatory to recycle the bottles and make it economical to do so

Posted by: Angel Pilkin | October 28, 2007 2:32 PM

I think bottled water should NOT be banned.. And I'll tell you why.. The water here in Allentown SUCKS and is NOT for drinking. So whoever sent that tap water should be drank from is a psychotic moron.. Especially if the tap water is bad for you..

Posted by: Anthony | October 28, 2007 6:41 PM

you shouldn't ban bottled water , i reuse them bottles evertime i ever get one , i am in lots of sports so i have to use them more then once .

yes , the water around her is bad , hey , somtimes it turns black from the dirt .
and people think bottled water is bad .
when it is clear though , i freeze it so its not to bad

- Rebecca

Posted by: Rebecca | October 28, 2007 9:52 PM

It would be dumb to ban bottle water. I mean like the people in iraq how would they get water? we just send swimming pools full of water over there? My point is bottle water is needed atleast for wars. not to mention kids use them for soccer and stuff because when they pratice no1 is selling cokes or pepsi.

- stephen

Posted by: stephen | October 29, 2007 1:16 AM

Maybe they should ban bottled water being flown in from other countries, but why stop it from being made available from, for example, Buxton and the Lake District? As to the environmental costs because of the plastic bottles, these are at least re-cycleable. There should be more re-cycling facilities, then the plastic bottles would not be as much of a problem.
Eventualy the oil will run out, so we won't be able to fly in anything from other countries, and assuming we haven't had some sort of neuclear holocaust, (which actualy seems kind of likely, what with George Bush and everything)and assuming that the polar icecaps haven't all completely melted, (again, we're definatly going the right way about it) the problem should just sort itself out (ha ha ha!)

Posted by: Laura | October 29, 2007 2:08 PM

personally i don'thihk that bottled water should be banned from the shelves .For instance there is never any clean water in the tap.And what about the people who live in far away places where the water in polluted with factory waste , what would they do. so i say screw the wider green party and continue bottling water

Posted by: kiddy | October 29, 2007 9:42 PM

Oh my; do you really think that water stored in that nasty plastic for God only knows how many weeks, shipped in hot trucks and stored in warehouses is any better than what's in the tap? Tap water, by the way can be boiled and kept in glass containers if you like. The water level of springs all over the world is being depleted by this water-bottle madness. When I was growing up, you didn't see people glued to bottles like babies; we drank water when we were thirsty. Come to think of it, we seldom saw overweight people either. People are SO LAZY and so hooked on "convenience" no matter what the cost. Most people don't even finish the water; they just sip it and toss out of their gas-guzzlers - or leave half-filled bottles wherever they were standing. I never, ever buy it. It has been a major triumph of marketing and it's wasteful and stupid. Get rid of the damn things.

Posted by: Barbara Tomlinson | October 29, 2007 10:37 PM

Water is not always water. Being able to get water when in a place where water smells or taste. I want to pay for a bottle of water. Weather at another school or area sometimes the water is not the same one is used to. Bottled water is better than tasting water from other areas.

Posted by: dolly | October 31, 2007 3:48 AM

You can't ban the sale of bottled water outright, but what is the quility?

Some schools don't even have drinkable water.

Posted by: Linda | October 31, 2007 4:25 PM

You can't ban the sale of bottled water outright, but what is the quility?

Some schools don't even have drinkable water.

Posted by: Linda | October 31, 2007 4:25 PM

Bottled water is a scam. Its nothing more than tap water which has been run thru a filtering system. You can do the same thing yourself with filter under your sink. Just keep refilling your bottle.

Posted by: Anonymous | November 1, 2007 2:22 AM

personally---bottled wter is the best thing since sliced bread! without bottled water i probably would not ave ANY water at all!I live in Georgia and we are under a very horrible drought! without bottled water our lakes would be dropping even lower per day than they already are. Maybe its a good idea in the far future, but as of right now, people need bottled water.
thanks,
Samantha Taylor

Posted by: Samantha Taylor | November 1, 2007 2:26 AM

I was just thinking about this this morning. I do buy bottled water because it's easy for me to carry around and drink water. If I do not have a bottle, I will not drink water. I have purchased resusable drink containers and not had good luck.

Posted by: Linda | November 1, 2007 7:45 PM

Bottling water reminds me of paying for television, it used to be free. Of course there are going to be special situations where bottled water is necessary, however I don't think people should solely rely on it. Tap water has floride, bottled water doesn't(that I am of). Maybe we could put limits on the amount of bottled water made/sold. Bannning bottled water will not change anything in a positive sense,(remember prohibition/Alcohol). An Alternative solution needs to applied, a solution the majority of people can live with and abide by. I don't pretend to know the magic answer, however viewing the whole picture to me is important. Taking sides and never reaching a viable solution will not solve anything only create more problems. Just my opinion for what it is worth.

Posted by: Linda Schrawyer | November 1, 2007 11:12 PM

thinks it should be outlawed the world over and the company's profits seized to build public taps.
:)

Posted by: david bailey | November 6, 2007 6:42 PM

i think that we should ban bottled water. i mean you can get tap water for less.people believe that tap water is not as clean as bottled water and they are so wrong. companies that bottle water use this scare tatic so that gulible consumers buy bottled water.

Posted by: mary | November 9, 2007 6:07 PM

i think that they should ban bottled water. it is no safer than tap water. tap water is regulated all the time by the government. bottled water isnt. besides it's too expensive. if you want bottled water do it yourself. put water in a bottle. companies that bottle water play on the fear that bottled water is safer than tap water. and the few gulible consumers buy it.

Posted by: Liz | November 9, 2007 6:10 PM