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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Bottled vs. Tap Water

Don't waste your money buying bottled water, most of it is just filtered tap water anyway. How brilliant was it for companies to sell us something that is essentially free (or nearly free) and charge us at least 300 times more.
Bottled water is no healthier than tap water and a lot of it just comes from the Municipal Water Systems anyway. Save yourself the money and buy a filter for your faucet.
If you don't like the taste of your tap water, first have someone do a blind taste test on you, see if you really can tell the difference or if it's all in your head. Even so, it's a matter of adaption... after a short while, you'll get used to it.
There's also the environmental issues, all them little plastic bottles that don't make it to recycling and fill up the landfills. 80% of the empty bottles are thrown away and take thousands of years to biodegrade.
So stop being a sucker and drink tap water, buy a filter if you don't trust your municipal supply. Next thing you know we'll be buying special water for cooking and special water for taking a shower, special dish washing water, etc... if any of you run with these ideas, I only want 10%.

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