The Truth about Soda

[Jaywood2010]

Mummelmann said:

I think you'll find the quality of a lot of water to be incredibly bad. A lot of places in Europe, and America for sure (and the rest of the world can be even worse, suffering from lack of treatment and filtering), have water that will make you sick, being full of bacteria or overloaded with treatment chemicals and metals (even heavy metals).
All in all, only about 15-20% of the people on earth have access to truly healthy water without too much polution and nastiness in it.

I'm not making a case for soda, mind you, soda is the prime suspect for obesity and general health concerns in the West but I just wanted to point out that water might not always be good for you (in fact; many times it isn't).

PS: One could argue that everyone has access to pure water in brooks and mountain streams, this is of course not the case (lack of streams, dead animals and other filth in the water, piles of naturally occurring bacteria or polution).

I'll put it this way.  If you have access to good water then drink it which is the case with a lot of people who drink soda.