Stop drinking from plastic water bottles!

[louby_4eva]

I think it was flourine or flouride

Flouride, that was it. Thanking you

Smile and Be happy

[Jessweeee♪]

Why is it bad for you again???

I don't drink water when I have something else in the house :P

Usually there isn't x.x

[Big D]

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Let me shoot some reasons down now, so you're not tempted to name the obvious ones.

Tap water is better for you than bottled water.
Tap water is cleaner than bottled water.
Tap water is cheaper than bottled water.
Tap water is better for the environment than bottled water.

You want a source? I refer you to season 1 of Penn & Teller's show.

Penn & Teller's Bull! is in infamously unreliable source. They routinely ignore any established science and facts that don't support whatever argument they're pushing in a given episode. The recycling episode is probably the worst thus far. I could waste a page deconstructing it, but for this discussion what matters most is that they took an in-depth, yet hopelessly skewed, look at the recycling of paper and claimed that their analysis proved all recycling wasteful.
Plastic bottles are made from petroleum, a non-renewable resource, so the recycling of them reduces the rate of fossil fuel depletion and also reduces the levels of waste products in landfills.

Drinking bottled water is a good idea in areas with poor-quality tap water, a very common problem on a lot of continents. Provided the available bottled water of of a higher quality than that from local taps, of course. Drinking bottled water can be the difference between good health, and crippling diarrhoea. In other cases, it might be simply an indulgent personal preference - the absence of chlorine of other additives in bottled water, or maybe the presence of naturally-occurring minerals in spring water. We spend a lot of time paying more for products that taste a little better, so this is little different.

Now, as for the (extremely) popular belief, there's no health risk from re-using plastic bottles... there's no evidence that this can cause cancer, and apparently little likelihood that it can have any ill effects.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Reuse of Plastic Bottles
Still some ongoing debate in that regard, but by and large it seems you're safe to re-use bottles.

[Jessweeee♪]

I used to live in a place with salty tap water o.o

[Fonzie]

I used to live in a place with salty tap water o.o

The saltier, the healthier.

[Arathia]

And I heard that many companies actually use tap water as bottled water, claiming that it was mountain spring. So you really get nothing batter by drinking bottled water.

[Big D]

And I heard that many companies actually use tap water as bottled water, claiming that it was mountain spring. So you really get nothing batter by drinking bottled water.

Depends on where you live. If you're in a country with strong consumer protection laws and vigilant watchdog groups, then such deeds won't go unnoticed forever.

In my hometown, our tap water actually comes from a spring anyway, and in my current city it's all from underground aquifers, so I've little need for bottled water except when I'm on the move and direly thirsty.

[Jessweeee♪]

We've been having problems with our tap water x.x

...first they found too much e. coli in it, then they put waaaaaaaay too much treatment in there to fix it x.x

We drank out of bottled water because we were too lazy to boil it :P

[aquatius]

I KNEW the french were evil!

[Nominus Experse]

I only drink bottled water if my filter seems to be running slowly and I feel as though I absolutely need water at that moment.

There is something wrong with the well here, and so the water has flecks of iron (yes, they are large enough to see) in it. If there wasn't I would likely continue to run it through a filter, but wouldn't bother with bottled water, as I don't much care for the inherent plastic taste in bottled water.