If that's what they want to spend their money on, whose to ridicule them? In the end, people always spend money on stupid things for irrational reasons.
Regardless, my family avoided our w well water back up in NY since is reeked of sulfur and no fix ever worked.
those bottles represent multiple negative externalities that affect us: fossil fuels and co2 emissions to make the plastic, more to make it into a bottle, more to transport it, and finally pollution, when the bottles don't actually get recycled (either by the user or the recycling center)
Regardless, my family avoided our w well water back up in NY since is reeked of sulfur and no fix ever worked.