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which_chickReal nice article on the sustainability of bottled water here.
I've been known to drink bottled water. I like Aquafina, which is pretty boring and tasteless and inoffensive. It has a good bottle. If there's no Aquafina, I'll drink Poland Spring but I don't like their bottles as well. Dasani is a distant third. I don't like their bottles at all. I prefer the liter size bottle no matter whose I'm drinking. The Aquafina large-mouth bottle is totally my favorite, though. I like the nice white lids and the blue lable. It's easy to clean and refill. I can stuff reasonably large ice cubes into it. For these reasons, I prefer Aquafina.
At home, eight months of the year, I drink natural spring water that happily bubbles out of the ground. The rest of the time, I drink natural groundwater that is unkindly ripped from the bowels of the earth by way of a pump in the bottom of a well. At no time is my water chlorinated or treated. This may kill me, but it hasn't yet and I'm pushing forty, been drinking it all my life.
Anyway, given that I've got Natural Spring Water mojo at my house tap, I don't buy that much bottled water. Mostly, it's for when I'm away from home or have lost the bottle I've been using and need a new one.
But what about dioxins? Aren't you worried you'll get cancer?
In a word, no. The whole "get cancer from freezing/reusing water bottles" thing is an internet hoax. You might get germs or something from reusing water bottles if you're a total slob about it, but no dioxins. I only use my bottles for water, I get the kind with basic screw-off lids (no sippy lids to harbor germs) and I wash the bottles with soap and hot water between uses. Thus far, not sick. Not getting sick. I throw 'em half-full into the freezer, too. Still not sick.
It's anti-American to reduce, reuse, and recycle! What are you, some kind of hippie?
Nope. I vote Republican. I eat meat. I own a 3/4 ton pickup truck *and* a firearm. I'm not a hippie. I'm not even very anti-American. I'm cheap. It's silly to pay a buck seventy-five for a fucking bottle of water when I can draw the exact same thing (only tastier) out of my tap for less than a penny. Proper prior planning and all. Turns out that, in this case, what's better for MY pocketbook is also better for the environment. Who knew?
I've been known to drink bottled water. I like Aquafina, which is pretty boring and tasteless and inoffensive. It has a good bottle. If there's no Aquafina, I'll drink Poland Spring but I don't like their bottles as well. Dasani is a distant third. I don't like their bottles at all. I prefer the liter size bottle no matter whose I'm drinking. The Aquafina large-mouth bottle is totally my favorite, though. I like the nice white lids and the blue lable. It's easy to clean and refill. I can stuff reasonably large ice cubes into it. For these reasons, I prefer Aquafina.
At home, eight months of the year, I drink natural spring water that happily bubbles out of the ground. The rest of the time, I drink natural groundwater that is unkindly ripped from the bowels of the earth by way of a pump in the bottom of a well. At no time is my water chlorinated or treated. This may kill me, but it hasn't yet and I'm pushing forty, been drinking it all my life.
Anyway, given that I've got Natural Spring Water mojo at my house tap, I don't buy that much bottled water. Mostly, it's for when I'm away from home or have lost the bottle I've been using and need a new one.
But what about dioxins? Aren't you worried you'll get cancer?
In a word, no. The whole "get cancer from freezing/reusing water bottles" thing is an internet hoax. You might get germs or something from reusing water bottles if you're a total slob about it, but no dioxins. I only use my bottles for water, I get the kind with basic screw-off lids (no sippy lids to harbor germs) and I wash the bottles with soap and hot water between uses. Thus far, not sick. Not getting sick. I throw 'em half-full into the freezer, too. Still not sick.
It's anti-American to reduce, reuse, and recycle! What are you, some kind of hippie?
Nope. I vote Republican. I eat meat. I own a 3/4 ton pickup truck *and* a firearm. I'm not a hippie. I'm not even very anti-American. I'm cheap. It's silly to pay a buck seventy-five for a fucking bottle of water when I can draw the exact same thing (only tastier) out of my tap for less than a penny. Proper prior planning and all. Turns out that, in this case, what's better for MY pocketbook is also better for the environment. Who knew?
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Date: 2007-07-04 01:29 am (UTC)I also don't buy into the dioxin theory - and try & educate people who forward those "so-and-so got cancer from reusing bottles" emails to me. It sure is big business, isn't it?
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Date: 2007-07-04 04:09 am (UTC)I miss not being able to have spring water to drink, tho.
It's been a couple decades since I lived where I had good water like that.
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Date: 2007-07-22 07:01 am (UTC)