Wow, that is so postmodern: selling a ridiculous and unnecessary product to people who want to show how they aren't suckers who buy ridiculous and unnecessary products.
I think of it as more a way to make a point and get paid for it at the same time (from the designer/producer's perspective.) Conspicuous consumption of pointless crap is already a lifestyle option; this is one of the more clever incarnations, really.
Heh. newyorkers trashed the idea of drinking their own water - bottled. They could just do what we already do - hold a Brita bottle under the tap and get our own Tap'd that way.
IMHO, the scariest thing in tap water is added fluoride, and Brita (or any activated carbon filter) doesn't remove that. I use activated alumina as well as carbon.
I believe the Mayor of Seattle was advocating selling Seattle tap water in a bottle - in frustration, as I understand it, after he got a lot of shit from trying to stop providing bottled water at city hall...
Municipal water standards are generally stricter than bottled ones... that being said, most tap water doesn't taste that great and here it's all from lake eerie. (And there are increases in cancer rates in people who live around the lake.) For this we created filters.
Seattle tap water is also pretty excellent; most of the people I've seen complain about Seattle water have bad pipes, or they've never been to California, or both.
I'm trying to remember if the water-delivery companies use local water or nationally distributed. That was always pretty good, and filtered more aggressively than a Brita pitcher can manage.
Yeah - Craig and I started using a filter at the apartment where the water tasted like celery. Not even bad so much as creepy. Redmond water can be moderately awful, especially during the summer. Woodinville water is actually excellent - it's this tiny but proud water district - but by then we were spoiled (the Woodinville house now has an undersink reverse osmosis filter. I sometimes think of getting one here, where it's really more needed, but the installation was such a pain...)
I'm not a fan of Brita pitchers, though they're better than nothing. Currently we're using a Pur filter - just one of the little attach to your tap things, but it's surprisingly effective. For the sweet spot of ease and efficacy I'd probably go for one of the thermos sized units you sit next to your sink.
Well, there is a lot of chlorine in the water on the hill, at least depending on which reservoir you draw from. Other than that, it's not too bad, but it's still enough to make a filter a very good thing.
Wonderfully long overdue. I know it's been talked about for a long time. Of course, some brands of bottled water, like Sparkletts and Aquafina, have always been filtered tap water... just not as proudly.
When I buy bottled water, it's more often than not because I want the bottle for a trip into the wilderness. Not for the journey that the water has taken from Wherever.
Yeah, but HDPE bottles have been around for longer!
(I was using glass for some months, until a bicycle mishap... might go back, though, as I keep getting this bacterial growth that smells like wintergreen on my HDPE nalgene...)
This is topical as I've just failed at trying to switch at *least* to delivery water rather than bottled water at my office (failed to convince boss) and at home (failed to convince boyfriend).
Boss1 says "oh, but people like the convenience of being able to grab a bottle and leave." Pointing out that people could just carry a sports bottle didn't work. The bosses are convinced that the tap water here tastes terrible (it tastes fine to *me*). I have no idea what's up with that; Boss1 is *from California* for god's sake. Maybe the California tap taste gets embedded in their taste buds after a while.
Very frustrated at not being able to do anything to reduce the stupidity and waste. Maybe I, at least, will just keep refilling a bottle with tap water, so at least we don't have to buy the bottles as *often*...
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Certainly Fijians don't have that option. Not when foreigners hold their water rights and prefer to sell it to Americans...
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Municipal water standards are generally stricter than bottled ones... that being said, most tap water doesn't taste that great and here it's all from lake eerie. (And there are increases in cancer rates in people who live around the lake.) For this we created filters.
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I'm trying to remember if the water-delivery companies use local water or nationally distributed. That was always pretty good, and filtered more aggressively than a Brita pitcher can manage.
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I'm not a fan of Brita pitchers, though they're better than nothing. Currently we're using a Pur filter - just one of the little attach to your tap things, but it's surprisingly effective. For the sweet spot of ease and efficacy I'd probably go for one of the thermos sized units you sit next to your sink.
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When I buy bottled water, it's more often than not because I want the bottle for a trip into the wilderness. Not for the journey that the water has taken from Wherever.
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(I was using glass for some months, until a bicycle mishap... might go back, though, as I keep getting this bacterial growth that smells like wintergreen on my HDPE nalgene...)
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This is topical as I've just failed at trying to switch at *least* to delivery water rather than bottled water at my office (failed to convince boss) and at home (failed to convince boyfriend).
Boss1 says "oh, but people like the convenience of being able to grab a bottle and leave." Pointing out that people could just carry a sports bottle didn't work. The bosses are convinced that the tap water here tastes terrible (it tastes fine to *me*). I have no idea what's up with that; Boss1 is *from California* for god's sake. Maybe the California tap taste gets embedded in their taste buds after a while.
Very frustrated at not being able to do anything to reduce the stupidity and waste. Maybe I, at least, will just keep refilling a bottle with tap water, so at least we don't have to buy the bottles as *often*...
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