On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:12:41 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 1:52:14 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 03:38:26 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:31:31 -0400,
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:39:42 -0400, micky
wrote:

Bottled water costs thousands of times as much as
water from the tap.

Not really. The combined water/sewer rate here is $6-10 a 1000 gallons
plus all of the service charges and taxes depending on how much you
use. Top rate 18000 gallons is about $10 per thousand or a penny a
gallon plus fees and taxes.

I think we have water meters but no one to read them, so I don't really
know how much I would pay for water if the bill were not split evenly
about 500 ways. And I don't know how much water I or all of together
use.

For a long time it was $60 a year. If each home was using 150 to let's
say, 200 gallons a day, that's over 70,000 gallons/$60 or over 1100
gallons /dollar or over 11 gallons for a penny, including fees and
taxes. 1/10th the price you came up with.

https://www.bsu.us/rates/
The grocery store sells gallon jugs of water for 78 cents.
If you buy the half liter bottles it is more like a dollar a gallon if
you shop around. (case of 24, 3 gallons $2.99) Worst case is paying a
buck a bottle at the shop and rob ($8 a gallon).

Sure you can get it cheaper but most people I see use 8 or 12 ounce
bottles, often buying them one at a time.

So $8/gallon : 9cents/gallon is 100 to one.

Not thousands but I thought I read that and the guy had a way to reach
that number. Maybe not.

Expensive for the convenience but nowhere near "thousands of times as
much".
You also need to treat the tap water here because it sucks. You need a
carbon filter, at least and to get close to bottled water quality
(usually R/O treated) you need an R/O. That ain't cheap either.

Where do you live that doesn't meter water? Must be nice. I lived in
Clinton Md and they certainly metered my water there. I agree it was
cheap then but that was 35 years ago. It probably also had lead in it.
Much of the water in the DC water system does ... still.

I was wondering how he could have such cheap municipal water in MD too.
The rates you gave, I think that's about the rate here we're paying too.




The standard water bottle is a half liter (a little over a pint) and
the ones in vending machines and convenience stores is 20oz. People
buying them one at a time are usually getting water instead of a soft
drink. Pepsi and Coke don't really care because the cost of the sugar
and color is insignificant in the price of the product.

The environmental impact from needlessly shipping most of that water,
consuming oil to truck it, all the plastic, it winding up in streams,
lakes, the oceans, is one big mess. I don't buy water by the bottle.
Not buying water that way would save people money and be an easy
positive step for the environment.

For us bottled water is a survival thing. When you have a hurricane,
bottled water is pretty important stuff to have. I always go into
summer with around 10 cases on hand. Since I had my generator going
after Irma and we had water I was distributing it to my neighbors. We
usually work our way through it throughout the winter and stock up
again in the spring.
I also keep bottled water on the boat in case of an emergency although
most of it gets given to kayakers who thought a bottle or two would be
plenty. That is always the first question I ask them. "You have plenty
of water"?

We also pick up everything we see floating in the boat.
I try not to confuse containers with the assholes who litter with
them. Most of the trash I pick up is not water bottles or straws.