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yes dumbest idea ever... how lazy have we gotten to not be able to fill a bottle of water at home or where ever they have dispensers and be fine with that instead of buying bottled water that is shipped from some dumb place that is depleting local water source all for convenience .

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It's more forgetfulness/plans change... I think probably installing water fountains everywhere would help more than giving everyone a metal water bottle.

In my life I went from never seeing these to seeing everyone carrying them. There really was a focus on selling the concept of the purity of bottled water.

Sadly in some places it probably is safer/tastes better. But for most of us our municipal water supply is far superior. Mine's from a mountain fed aquaphor, no way I'm drinking plastic infused bottled crap shipped 2000km that's taken from yet another municipal water supply anyway!

People use plastic water bottles so they don’t have to carry the empty bottle around after they finish.

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