don't go chasing waterfalls
Henry forwarded me this article because we have an ongoing debate about bottled water. It isn't that I disagree that bottled water is an expensive luxury, but I lived in Arizona when they started serving us Colorado River Water due to the shortages of drinking (or any) water there. It may be *safe* to drink, but it sure doesn't taste or look very good.
Rather than being a luxury, in some places in our country, the water we buy in a bottle is actually worse. From the article,
In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It's so good the EPA doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
I watch my coworkers fill up at the water cooler and I personally tend to hit
the flavored sparkling water. I'm thinking a tastefully done photo of Yosemite above the sink in the kitchen might do a lot to get us thinking more about filling up from tap instead.
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