Does This Paragraph Make You Want to Quit Bottled Water?
Berkeley might consider themselves a bastion of the environmental cause, but man do they like drinking their bottled water. Obsessed with flouride, chemicals in the tap water, or just trying to be cool, the yuppies are always looking for ways to feel like they’re overseas and very trendy hipsters. It’s just so cool to be Euro, because who really wants to be American anyway?
Hopefully, the brief snippet after the jump will give you an idea of how unkind an indulgence this is. Charles Fishman, courtesy of Made to Stick:
“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.”
How do you guys feel about bottled water? Do you drink it while you trug along campus? Fans of tap/filtered water? Are you an alien that wishes to understand what this water thing is? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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8 Responses to “Does This Paragraph Make You Want to Quit Bottled Water?”
July 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I drink bottled water in Southern California because the tap water tastes like ass. Then it becomes a habit so everyone buys bottled water in Berk. But I changed and used a pur filter thing, so I drink from the tap basicly.
July 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
No worries man. LA tap water is notoriously contaminated.
July 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
At least it isn’t the East River. That water might as well be acid rain, and yet the Columbia crew team still practices there.
I’m also glad the Bay Area doesn’t try to filter the bay water. That might as well be the East River.
July 28th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Hun, it’s salt water. Why the hell would you want to filter that?
July 28th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Because it’s dull, you idiot, it’ll hurt more!
Sorry, it just came out.
Well, I imagine that some resource specialists will tell you that the oceans and their salty inlets (or whatever the geographically correct term is) make up a rather large portion of our Earth. It could be advantageous for someone to invent (or make a cheaper version of) a filter for saltwater to tap water.
Since we dump everything in the Bay, anyway, I imagine it could be the next wave of recycling.
July 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
We call them desalination plants. But it is definitely an interesting idea to expand upon.
July 29th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I call them thingies that convert types of water to other types of water.
This is why I major in Rhetoric. I don’t come up with the names or the methods. Just the ideas. The ideas!
July 30th, 2007 at 11:35 am
The ideas? No, more like the useless questions.
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