Another cheap water deal 24 pack of 600mls
Half Price @ $5.50 (Was $11)
Great for the gym if you dont have a reusable water bottle, and saves you from getting ripped off for $1.50 per bottle at the convenience store or Gym
Stock up and enjoy
Frantelle Spring Still Water Bottle 600ml 24pk $5.50 (Was $11) @ Woolworths Online NSW/ACT Only
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easternculture on 22/10/2014 - 00:37 www2.woolworthsonline.com.au (1040 clicks)
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The bottles have gotten progressively cheaper and flimsier as time has gone by but luckily the water still tastes good (on par with Evian/VOSS) and leagues better than the discolourated bore water they pass off as tap water in WA.
For the record, I don't condone what the bottled water industry does or represents, and it is sad that you need to pay a premium just to receive the lifeblood of humanity in something resembling its intended form, but I do maintain you have the choice of a lesser of two evils:
With bottled water you get BPA leachates that contain endocrine and hormone disruptors (even in BPA-free bottes; no such thing as food-grade plastic), but with tap water you not only get fluoride but industrial run-off (pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers), trace amounts of everything from cyanide to arsenic as well as heavy metals like aluminium (all of which accumulate in your body to dangerous levels over time; the brains of elderly Alzheimer's sufferers are brimming with aluminium), chlorine, and whatever lines the decaying pipes between your local water catchment area and your house.
And no, $20 Brita filters do not filter any of that. Try a 0.5 micron, PSI reverse osmosis filters with UV globes for $350 plus regular filter replacements of $88: http://www.psifilters.com.au/twin-undersink/premium-twin-und…
Most analyses of tap water versus bottled water show bottled water to be statistically purer but nevertheless the bottling and distribution of bottled water consumes resources and produces emissions (only 35% of the plastic is ever recycled), in addition to allowing businesses to capitalise and monopolise the very lifeblood of humanity itself.
As I said, the lesser of two evils. You can comfort yourself with whatever stats you like, that you're doing the right thing, but really you're caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
People are dropping like flies because the water supply is so dangerous these days. Honestly. How dare anyone suggest no one has ever had a safer supply of drinking water ever in history, that wouldn't fit the narrative of progress killing everyone :p
It's true, my mum drank tap water all her life until she died, so it's clearly bad for you.
Quick! Get Erin Brockovich on the phone ..
My dog drinks from puddles.
People are dropping like flies because the water supply is so dangerous these days. Honestly. How dare anyone suggest no one has ever had a safer supply of drinking water ever in history, that wouldn't fit the narrative of progress killing everyone :p
To name a few:
Thalidomide, PCBs, DDT, Agent Orange, CFCs, Asbestos, Cigarettes, Lead as an additive in petrol/paint, Dioxin-based pesticides, Dalkon Shield, Artificial Sweeteners, etc.
All at one point in time considered as safe as water itself, and in days gone by, armed with the backing of a chorus line of pencil-necked "experts" who swore on enough Bibles to sink Noah's Ark.
The mentality of waiting until people started dropping dead to identify a problem, is precisely what caused all of the above mentioned health catastrophes and more to the point, immediate casualties, if there were any, were quite often difficult to directly correlate to the toxin itself or chemical itself.
Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people and ecosystems will be guaranteed to suffer from the after-effects of things like asbestos and PCBs for many generations and the accumulative impact will thus be impossible to quantify.
When it comes to the "greatest hits" of self-inflicted health crises, all of the past century and most likely all of this century, has and will be spent continuing to decontaminate and eradicate those toxins from human populations.
Keep on choking on that sand buddy.
Your assertion is basically as far as safety is taken in the halls of power in our branches of government.
If no one's dying, everything's just fine. If thousands of people turn into drooling vegetables in 50 years time, or if our water sources become irreversibly contaminated, who really cares? The benefits of 4-year terms and revolving door parliaments.
Can combine this with the daily telegraph coupon? $2.75 a pack!
Would be good if someone could confirm this :)
I remember when people used to listen to advice given by professionals who studied things.
Now every joe blow just cherry picks factoids from wikipedia and proclaims themselves correct.
Amar89- how many peer reviewed papers have you authored on polymers and their effects on the human body?
Were these longitudinal studies you conducted?
Who funded your obviously expansive and comprehensive research?It's all well and good to have opinions as laymen, but it is just that- an opinion. Your opinion.
Don't go trying to pass off your wikipedia skim reading as insight.
It's not."I remember when people used to listen to advice given by professionals who studied things."
That must've been a while ago :D
First, you're kind of taking my statements up there out of context as it was directed mainly towards Monty.Melb's now unpublished comments in which he equated regular consumption of bottled water to a mild form of homegrown terrorism.
I was merely trying to level the playing field against his wall of copy-pasta, Wikifactoids about the "evils" of bottled water.
Second, and most important of all, nothing gets done in the scientific world simply due to altruism.
Experts cost money, studies cost money. An "expert opinion" is one that has a lot of money riding on it, and that money comes from a variety of sources, some noble in intent, others completely corrupt. Nothing puts science on a pedestal merely because some scientists are choosing to work on cancer vaccines or the cure for AIDS; it's still a multi-billion dollar industry with more at stake strategically than the mere plebs can fathom.
State-owned water utilities who test their own water supplies (gee, what's wrong with that picture?) have it within their dearest interests to limit disclosure of water-borne contaminants besides those that will produce obvious and immediate casualties, like microorganisms or pathogens.
In the end, there is really nothing they can do, as I mentioned in my deleted comments, to filter things like heavy metals, pesticides, PCBs, hydrocarbons, the alphabet soup of industrial run-off and inorganic volatiles.
All the chlorine and the sand filtration in the world isn't getting that out of the water supply. Period.
Go ahead and give me your ridiculous burden of proof all you like (because I'm sure you really live your life by peer-reviewed studies; much less can cite one you've read in the last year), but the fact of the matter is, we are all of us dependent on a self-serving monopoly for our most essential of needs.
Bottled water, for the time being, is at least a choice that is outside of the distribution chain you are locked into by default.
Every other state-owned Australian utility is in total shambles and cutting costs like there's no tomorrow, so expecting water utilities to still be an unmolested bastion of people-over-profit and bureaucracy-free utopia is more than a little naive.
thanks..
Plastic bottle water is not good for health. Try glass bottle.
perhaps an overpriced Voss 800ml water for $4.50
Australia and perhaps the western world is being ripped off for water. In Sth Korea the concept of buying bottled water is strange.
There water is freely available in department stores, offices, banks, govt buildings, food courts. You never have to worry about taking water out with you for the kids as an example
Very handy!
I guess Korea is a backward place like Australia was 30 years ago when water was also freely available at all those places.
But people discovered if they marketed it properly they could make money from it.
Thank god we live in an advanced country where we can spend money on a formerly free item!
My woollies has them for standard price and when I click your link it says $5.50 but checkout is still $11 per pack.
use the price guarantee, if it doesnt scan at the advertised price you get it for FREE
Seems to exclude QLD for some reason, as soon as I change the pick-up store from NSW to one in the "Smart State" it reverts to $11.83…not only do we have have Australia tax but now it seems QLD Mining tax…awesome.
I'm in Victoria. When I go to website and search the water I find it, it say $5.50. However when added to cart it's $11. Nothing states online only. And it's not in the current catalogue so must have to go in store to see this deal without getting ripped off.
says $11 for me still
Me also…
Thank you EC.
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Pharmacies sell these for $3.90 for the pack
24 pack 600ml Frantelle? Where?
Shosmart pharmacy in Mt Druit. Its not frantelle, but water is water
is it 400ml, 500 or 600ml
It is only for online orders. Valid for victorians as I just called woolworth to place an order.
At the moment it is advertised as full price due to some error, so call them up nad they can place your order online via phone if you have an account and provide a coupon code for the discount. Just did myself. Hope this helps someone.
Good spotting this EA
This is for NSW only. have called customer service, spoke to management and spoken to superior via customer service.
I just bought a carton and it was $11 in WA.
$1.50 per bottle? Try $2.50 - $3
Thats where i sometime buy them at asian grocery shop. But your right $2 at my gym and $3 at 7/11
Not on sale in SA as well, at least not for the Unley store.
Costco has 30x 500ml kirkland water for $6.
Facepalm. Just tried to purchase this in store at QLD without realizing that it's only for NSW & ACT and is to be bought online..
Not online for Sydney??
5 ~ 6 bucks for water at Bounce indoor trampolines and no water fountain. I've only seen water in convenience stores for three or four bucks. Thanks OP.