[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Pinner

I Didn't want to quote a big ass picture so I took it out.

While I agree that bottled water consumption is way overblown (if not convenient from time to time), I hate it when a grop throws together a thing like this and just cherry picks their numbers to make their point.

For instance they chose from what I can find to be the low end of the scale for the price of tap water in the US at ~ $0.40-0.80/m3.
Then they throw out $10/gallon for bottled water...okay, sure that kind of makes sense if you go by individual 500ml bottles. But the overall cost is stated as $61 billion from 53 billion gallons sold. That looks to me to be ~$1.15/gal.

An overpayment for sure, but I find it really hard to take anyone seriously when they don't have any kind of consistency in their numbers. Even if I do agree with the overall purpose for putting them together.