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Originally Posted by M.A+
bottled water is not freely available. it's of a much higher quality than tap water - either through the process of purification or because of it's clean natural source (deep underground spring, etc).
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Actually the more significant difference is that bottled water is a physical product and you can't yet go to a website and have good water flow out of your USB port.
If tomorrow through some technological miracle someone were to open a site "freequalitywater.com" where you could visit and get good water to flow out of your monitor or phone then bottled water sales would tank in almost the same way porn sales have tanked over the last six years. Some at first would stop buying but over the years many more would stop as they are educated that the product they were paying for is now freely available.
You don't have to be an Einstein to get this. You're now a bottle water salesman standing at the local Walmart while your old customers scoff at you as they get their water free from their mobile phones. They say "Why would we pay? This is cheaper and so much easier!"