Water is a basic daily need for all creatures. The bottling and selling of water makes survival an expensive task, and goes back on years of free public water fountains by again making water a luxury instead of a necessity.

**TL;DR -- Bottled water isn't a consumer product, it's a service that we pay for to get convenient, safe drinking water.** Water is still available for free, regardless of companies bottling and selling it. But people refuse to go out and drink straight from a river or pond -- and for good reason. We have no idea what diseases or pollutants are in free water supplies. When we buy bottled water or pay the water bill for tap, we're not buying water as a consumer product. We're paying for a **service**. We're paying for the labor of someone to go out and purify the water for us so we can safely drink it. There's always the option of purifying the water oneself if one doesn't want to pay for bottled water. But no one wants to do that. So we're bottlenecking ourselves into buying water. It's not bottling companies or water companies that do that to us -- we're the ones personally responsible. We've grown so accustomed to convenience that our survival depends on others to do these essential things for us. If we want to live a consumer-free life, we have to change our lifestyles. But how many of us are willing to do so?

Clean drinking water is essential to life, it is essential to every life process and to survival. Humans can only survive without water for 3 days. In addition, it is estimated by the Institute of medicine that women need around 2.7 litres of water per day and men need around 3.7 litres per day. The marketing and existence of water as a branded consumer product is not only sad but also very immoral. Water is a natural product, that is the Earths life force by making water into a consumer product you are exploiting Earths resources by extension you are also exploiting all of Earths population for a profit. In addition, water being treated as a consumer product and being sold in branded plastic bottles also creates huge amounts of waste through the creation of single-use plastic water bottles. This creates huge amounts of waste and litter, much of which ends up in landfill and although many water bottle companies often promote the fact that they are recyclable it is estimated that less than 10% of everyday plastics in the UK are actually recycled with much of the 'recycling' being shipped of to less economically developed countries. In addition, in areas of many low and medium income countries there is a reliance on plastic water bottles due to unsafe water supplies, this is extremely immoral as the companies are exploiting peoples need and rights for water for a profit, many of said people are already very poor and spend a huge portion of their income on safe water and other drinks, this also creates huge amounts of plastic waste which may even end up in landfill which can then pollute water supplies more thus creating a vicious circle. This can also force people who cannot afford bottled water to drink unsafe water which can cause many illnesses and diseases. This money should be spent on improvements to water supply. In conclusion, Water is not a luxury, clean safe water should not be a luxury it is a right and should be provided to everyone and should not be commodified.

"Oh no, we took a thing that we have a use for, and made it more convenient to access. We must be dumb" Gimme a break. Nobody's making you buy bottled water. For what it's worth, I totally grasp the sort of ironic poetry of trying to simplify our access to something as natural and plentiful as fucking WATER... and thereby creating an incredibly complex and unnecessary industry that powers evil corporations that lobby from the perspective of their business interests against the interests of the consumers that they're supposed to support. But that goes for literally ANY product that you will buy in a store, ever.

It's a sad reflection on entitlement that you consider drinking water basic

"We live in a Society"

Next headline- "Bill Gates buying up all privately owned springs, and mounting drills on his private land > Then President Biden buys up all of the fresh water from "Gates" and pours all of it into the Pacific. Now Is everything I just wrote any stranger than cancelling our pipeline, Signing an order that boys can run vs girls, bringing the Taliban into our country, and with no dialogue, deliver the good and the bad to odd olaces in USA. Finally, is it any stranger than opening our southern border AS IF WE ARE NOT A COUNTRY , which is consistent with his desire to deny , when ever feasible to deny his oath of Office? To think, we may have clubs for 'bomb making'. Water of all things is the most precious thing on this earth, and sometimes wonder if some of our enemies , INSIDE these United States , ever think of hitting our water reservoirs, as the ultimate commodity for blackmail of the highest order