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What is Dasani? Tap water. No really. That is what it is. Tap water. I know this because in a prior life I worked for Coca-Cola and was directly in charge of the water production. We open the tap (granted, it is a much bigger tap than your sink) and we suck in the tap water from the municipal water supply just like when you turn your sink on. We put it into a holding tank and then we 'process' it. We run it through a reverse osmosis process, yes, which does remove certain mineral elements and other things. Then we add our 'salts,' which is just potassium chloride and other things to it to give it a 'neutral' flavor. Ozonation is the next step which removes any other things from the water we may not want. But it is not about health. It's about 'flavor.' We want every bottle of Dasani to taste like Dasani. But it is still just tap water. After we have done all of this to it we then run it through the bottler and give the bottle a 'snap' of nitrogen to make the bottle hard. That's really just to keep it from getting stuck in vending machines. It then goes to market, we sell it for a lot of money, everyone is happy. But it is bottled tap water. Now you know. If the bottle says 'purified,' it is tap water in a bottle.
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So you work in water production, that was nice work. Did you enjoy doing that work?
Not anymore, and not exactly. I worked for Coca-Cola which also happened to bottle water.
Bottled water has just been another scam from the get go, I watched an investigative journalist piece from the fifth estate once, which actually showed that the majority of branded bottled waters had more contaminants than tap waters in some countries. TBH I didn't expect anything less considering the companies that control the industry
I do not believe the latter part of your comment. But bottled water is definitely marketed well to commit people to being willing to pay for something they can get virtually for free.
Good to know. I don't really buy bottled water....I'd rather get it free from the sink lol (it is free as we don't pay for water where I live).
Bottled water is something we do keep in our house. I generally use the 'reality' to remind people of the power of marketing. People have actually been made to believe that tap water is bad, and as such, the market for bottled water is extremely large as a result to the point most people would not even consider drinking from the tap.
That looks so good my friend