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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
When you're out in your car, shopping in a mall, walking through the scrub lands or even outdoors. No one, if you missed it, NO ONE has free water to drink. In fact access to free drinking water is very scarce.
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When you go into an airport there is free water everywhere, it is free yet the shops still sell it often right next to where it is free
Most workplaces have free water for their employees, either from the tap or from machines. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasnt a law to allow employees access to water. They don't charge employees for taking a glass of water from the tap. It is free. Yet employees go out in their lunch break and buy it and take it back to work.
When you go to the gym there is free water everywhere, it is free yet the gyms still sell it in vending machines right along side where it is free
When you go into a restaurant anywhere in England pretty much and ask for tap water the restaurant will give it to you for free, yet people still buy it. Including my Mrs
Often apartments and flats have water included in their rent. It is free, they pay no extra to have it. Yet people who get it for free still pay for it and put it in their fridge.
Most people who pay water rats in the UK are not metered. I'm not metered at home so I have to pay what I pay regardless of how much water I use. So when I take a glass of water out of the tap it costs me no extra. It is free. But my Mrs like millions of others still buys water.
When I use to live at home with my parents, like many other people, they didn't charge me extra for water I drunk. It was free. But I still bought it.
If you wanted to, you could collect water in the garden in a big tank when it rains, or scoop up the snow when it snows and drink it for free. Yet people still buy it.
Water is often free. Even when drunk at home, unless you have a meter, then drinking extra water on top of what you have to pay is free.
I would say its almost impossible to not get free water. Usually right along side where you pay for water.
It has been proven time and time and time again, people buy water because they want to. Not because it tastes better and certainly not because they can't find free water.
Water is bought as a lifestyle choice. When you buy into bottled water you buy into a life aspiration. No one buys water for any other reason. They "think" they do. They are wrong though. Ask the people who buy and sell water.
Water is bought and sold between countries who have an abundance of water. Waters biggest market is countries that have unlimited supplies of water selling to other countries that have unlimited amounts of water. Not countries without water. They don't buy hardly any.
Water is free. Yet people still buy it.