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Tap or Bottled Water ?

19 April 2006

What is wiser: Make a high quality drinking water and flush it in toilet or suffer under plastic supporting bottle water industry. Three out of four plastic bottles are still not recycled since natural decaying (or life of plastic) is hundreds of years. Almost like used nuclear fuel. At the same time our troubles with carbon footprint are not getting smaller in future (about 4,000 tons of CO2 are emitted during the transportation of bottled water from France, Italy, and Fiji to the U.S.).  A few years back while I was digging in my mum’s garden I found a plastic bag. It was so well preserved that even the colours were clearly visible on it. To me and my generation the company name written on it didn’t even ring a bell at all but the elderlies had a word or two to say about it!

Most of the public water utilities produce same water quality for all domestic use. If we split the water supply system at the point of use we need to start to educate the public about taps with and wthout monsters in them. It’s annoying to know about water. Every time I flush the toilet at least one thought about water quality or it’s treatment crosses my mind!