Comments on: Entrepreneur Bottles NYC Tap Water… and New Yorkers are Buying it

By: JoeBlow

JoeBlow — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:25:48 +0000

Brian #26,

Have you ever even been to NY? I’m guessing no…

By: don

don — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:49:29 +0000

Can we stop the myth that NYC tap water is good? The stuff is disgusting. So many blind tastings puts the city in last place continuously, so when are we going to stop fooling ourselves?

By: bob

bob — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:06 +0000

#6 BigBoyBC said, “Actually, Barnum never really did say that…”

Actually, Barnum never denied saying it.

By: Rabble Rouser

Rabble Rouser — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:35:58 +0000

This is not new… about 30 years ago, Macy’s bottled NYC water and sold it. Some people bought it, but it was a flop.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:18:01 +0000

On those rare occasions we buy bottled water, it is for the convenience. We usually save the bottles to refill.

In the summer I fill them half way and prop them on an angle in the freezer. When we go out I’ll fill them up with water. The ice keeps them cold longer and the extra surface contact helps cool any additional water faster.

It seems more and more people are reusing water bottles.

By: jealousmonk

jealousmonk — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:07:37 +0000

I’ve stayed in NYC apartments numerous times. In some the tap water was good, in others it was brown tinged (I don’t know how it tasted). It depends on your pipes.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:00:42 +0000

#26, Brian,

And I wonder what they think of you?

By: smartalix

smartalix — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:36:15 +0000

26,

trust me, not every New Yorker is a spoiled yuppie asshole.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:12:00 +0000

Typical NYers…ignorant in their purchases as they are in life, overspending for every name brand they can find. And they call themselves ‘refined’, I call them ‘gullible’ and ‘idiotic’.

By: Zybch

Zybch — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:52:40 +0000

#24 you do realize that ‘the world’ you speak of actually extends further than the US border right?

By: brm

brm — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:38 +0000

NYC apparently has the best tap water in the country, which means it probably has the best tap water in the world.

People buying bottled water are paying for the convenience, and for a clean plastic container – and I doubt anyone buying water would disagree with this. No one is such an idiot that they are ignorant of the real price of water.

By: dm

dm — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:42:24 +0000

New York is largely a pedestrian city. You’re not going to want to carry a re-filled water bottle with you every time you go for a long walk or go on the subway. It’s easier to pack light and buy a new bottle of water when you get thirsty.

There are plenty of environmental problems with all the plastics, but I would hazard a guess that when comparing the cons of plastic bottles with the benefits of a dense population that overwhelmingly uses mass transit, New York is more environmentally friendly than most cities in America.

By: KD Martin

KD Martin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:06:48 +0000

#13, Wouldn’t you buy just one bottle for the convenience, then fill it up from the tap and put it in the fridge?

Good to go on the next trip!

By: LDA

LDA — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:38:41 +0000

If it is generally good water as many here attest, further purification and bottling may make it a reasonable product. Plastic bottles however are dodgy (glass is better as far as I know).

I used to drink 1.5 LT of Evian-naivE every day and after a period of not consuming it, when I tried it again it tasted strongly of chlorine.

By: McCullough

McCullough — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:29:10 +0000

#18. Har! Good One.