Probably the cheapest currently at 30c per 600ml bottle. Would be $5.99 (20c each) for 30 bottles with the 10c refund per bottle.
Great for travelling, parties etc.
As a comparison, Woolworths and Coles brands are $8 for 24 x 600ml bottles.
Sourced from pure, natural springs in Australia.
Bottles made with 50% recycled plastic.
I agree. I don’t understand people who buy bottled water unless out and about and u buy it where u are but, tap water tastes better? Idk weird. This is still too expensive.
Bottled water can actually be worse than tap water in some cases.
In 2004, Coca Cola was caught out when it was revealed that its Dasani bottled water was actually just tap water run through a purification process. Unfortunately, the "purification" process went wrong and added carcinogenic bromate to the water.
I really agree that if you're worried about tap water, the smarter thing to do is to just filter it yourself. That is, unless you live in an area with known, longstanding water quality issues.
The major input cost to most bottled water manufacturers is the bottles. Essentially, they're packaging companies.
I get brain fog and lethargic with tap water.
Psychosomatic condition unless you have something seriously wrong with your house plumbing. Do you have CO monitor?
@DashCam AKA Rolts: Nope I rent and have moved to various homes, don't trust tap water. If you live in an old place with storage hot water system they can be very old and corrode rust into the water, if it's that bad it's visible.
@DashCam AKA Rolts: It doesn't matter it's in the pipes, what's with trust in tap water like it's coming from Swiss natural springs?
Tap water is not “full of chemicals”. RO water lacks vital minerals and isn’t ideal to drink long term. Unless you’re supplementing some of the removed minerals, but by then, what’s the point?
@no not me: There is no real need to add minerals back, they are for flavour and mouth-feel, not nutrition. If you’re eating any sort of food, you are not going to be deficient in trace minerals.
(Fluoride, an exception, which definitely should be added to water, but isn’t practical for people to do at home.)
Chemicals are expensive, the water company doesn't put in any more than they're legally required to. They also have meet a whole host of other requirements, unlike bottled water.
@JIMB0: Haha they can't afford Pharmaceutical grade fluoride so they source it from the phosphate fertilizer industry, bottled water is not tampered with I'll take my chances on the errmagherrd microplastics!
@GoldAlwaysGold: The plastic bottles are also made from a highly toxic substance. I'll take my chances with the highly diluted fluorosilicic acid in tap water.
@JIMB0: For what benefit are you "highly diluting" a concentrate that is used as rodenticide, insecticide in your drinking water? To prevent tooth decay? How's that working out for you?
Buy it? Just put your hands together under a tap in the toilets for free.
Gotta love the state government container deposit scam. Make consumers pay 10 cents a bottle more upfront then have to take them to a deposit location to get their 10 cents back. When most people recycled them in their council recycle bins anyway.
If only it was 10 cents.
The container deposit scheme actually requires closer to double that to cover all the costs.
Victoria’s own figures indicate that costs increased 16c per bottle to cover the costs of the 10c refunds:
https://www.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/RV_Bevera…
The big problem is there isn't the proper reverse vending machines near the entrance at all major supermarkets unlike other countries.
For a lot of people is a largely a problematic excise compared to just using your recycling.
Unfortunately Australia doesn't have th culture for it, they will all be smashed or broken within no time
Um, they are usually in the store, at the rear wall.
This is in Europe, which has similar issues with Vandalism.
@Pcoder: fair enough, in the store would be ok.
Used to be fine in Europe, i remember they had beer in vending machines!
All removed lately
Countries in Europe also make consumers pay up front and then take them to a machine/depot for a refund. Australia is no different.
Tasmania started this year and they have it at 22c extra, 10c back if you take it to a recycle deposit box. They lose 12c or 22c.
They should increase it to 20c minimum to further encourage recycling :DD
Absolutely they should. It's been 10 cents for years and years. It doesn't go up with inflation.
They should also make the shopping trolleys only accept $2 coins to increase return rates.
You’re right. Make it 20-30 cents and have the machines at all supermarkets, bottle shops and shopping centres (inside the centres please).
Works in Germany and similar countries.
Mind you no one recycles like the Germans. They do like sorting things into different… types… and err… hmm
What a pfandfastic idea!
Especially dumb considering now they have ordered us all glass bins when we can just use the container deposit instead…
It’s a good thing that state governments maintain infrastructure to supply potable water to the majority of the Australian population.
You definitely put in more effort than 10 cents a bottle.
Before: chuck bottles into recycle bin, the end.
Now: refer to flowchart.
from which spring is this water from?
Warragamba Dam/Nepean River Springs
The Great Municipal spring
Or just fill up with tap water for about 5c
Yep. For $6.99 (after container refund), you could get the equivalent of 3,765 x 600ml bottles of water by using tap water (based on Sydney Water rates = $3.17/kl).
It’s insane when you think about it like that
$5.99
You have to consider the convenience factor.
Filling a reusable water bottle is as convenient as it gets.
I can understand buying bottled water if you're out and about, forgot to bring a water bottle, need something to drink, and it's a choice between bottled water or bottled soft drink.
However, when you're buying it in a 30-pack, it's clearly to take with you. And a reusable bottle is just as convenient for that.
Free flouride too
Different use case
Great for travelling, parties etc.
We always travel with stainless steel water bottles or insulated sports bottles, it's not hard to avoid buying single use plastic bottles. Even airports are offering refill stations.
Parties - just use filtered water and a couple of jugs or large glass dispensing containers, paper cups if you must - still much better than single use plastic bottles.
In Cambodia. Vietnam and Indonesia recently, hotels and tour groups provided filtered and in most cases chilled water points for free. Local initiatives to stop the use of disposable, single use plastic bottles. While traveling down the Mekong, the travel company provided aluminium bottles and a constant supply of filter water.
So-called 'paper cups' are generally worse than so-called 'single use' plastic bottles.
Plastic bottles can be easily recycled.
Most 'paper' cups are coated with a thin layer of microplastics to make the inside waterproof. The cups typically end up in landfill or compost where the environment and water supply gets contaminated with near instant microplastics. Plastic bottles take years to produce similar quantities of micrplastics.
Yummy aluminium!… Uhh I forgot what I was going to say next…
@tenpercent: Stainless steel is probably a better (watch the cap on these are these are plastic!). Aluminium (oxides) are generally amphoteric so may certainly leech into food. Not sure about quantities.
Bottled water contained quite a lot of MNPs. 90% nano! only 10% micro.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300582121
Newer imaging techniques are advancing the field.
This article is easier to read for non sciency types.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/roughly-240000…
Who cares?
Agree…I haven't bought a disposable plastic bottle in a while. Been using my double walled steel bottle for many years whenever I need to carry water.
Also, researchers from one study found ~240,000 micro-plastics on average in 1L bottled water.
Yes. Watch the cap on your bottle and make sure you don't touch the cap with hot water (which is the worst.
My bottle has silicone seal in the cap.
What is the usual price? Is this a bargain or just RRP?
The price has reduced as I've paid more a few months ago at around $11 or $12.
RRP after Colesworth dropped theirs. Or keep it simple and get from Aldi for $7.49 for 24. Works out about the same
ALDI link states expired:
Meant to be $7.59 for 24 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/16770980/redir
Post was $7.59 for 24 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/917408
Still is
Was $10.99 before price dropped to $8.99 in August.
Pretty sure this is NU water, as their logo is on the lid.
Costco also sells the Nu brand. I've bought both brands. Can't remember the lids but Nu costs a few dollars more as in this packaging: https://www.costco.com.au/Business-Delivery/Beverages/Water/…
Sorry, was suggesting NU manufacture it, with a custom costco label.
I wonder if the water source is the same.
Thanks for pointing that out, never noticed.
Finally I can afford bottle water but wait the store is an hour drive. Any other store price matching?
Pfes alert!
They don't do water analysis all the time, but when they do, the calcium content is significantly less than Sydney water, the primary reason I use it for coffee machine instead of tap water.
I just can't drink Sydney Water because of the funny taste.
This is perfect to increase your microplastic intake! Cheap too….
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