I am going to present a situation to you. If this has happened to you, please leave your story in the comment section after you've read this post. Don't try to tell me through the screen, however, because I can't hear you and you very well may scare those around you if you start conversing with a monitor. Imagine you are going about your day, not doing a whole lot out of the ordinary. Maybe you’re chatting it up with a couple friends, or possibly checking out facebook and blog posts while pretending to do homework, what ever floats your boat really. At any rate, there may come a time in the day where you recognise a familiar sensation. Your tongue becomes dry, your saliva becomes sticky, and you get that bad taste in your mouth. You must be thirsty.
So what do you do? I’ll tell you what you do, your basic survival reflex brings you to find the nearest reasonable source of water. If you were to think about that nearest reasonable source right now you would probably be thinking of a store where you would buy water in a bottle, or ‘bottled water’ if you will. This does not seem out of the ordinary to you at all because you have been raised in a world where people buy bottled water, a world that markets a necessity for life.
You have been “informed” the powers-that-be (in America we would say “The Man”) that water in a bottle is the cleanest and healthiest water you can obtain. I happen to know, after a decent amount of research, that this is absolute folly.
Let me take you back in time, before you born, before I was born, probably around the time your parents were adolescents. Back in those days, when someone thirsted for a beverage while enjoying a day of playing outside in the sun (they had to make do with what was outside because they had no video games to melt their brains), they too would search for the nearest source of water. They would not go to the nearest store to claim such a life essential however, oh goodness no, they would go INSIDE THEIR OWN HOME.
“Ridiculous” you might say. Well, you see back then every home contained a magical tool called a ‘faucet’ that would produce FREE WATER. That’s right, your parents had the ability to turn a nozzle and extinguish thirst for free. And that’s not all! When they would go outside, the magical water fairies that powered the faucet (or tap for those of you who are unfamiliar with the slang) followed them to another magical item of the era: The Hose. Hoses were everywhere back in the day. If you were thirsty and could not be bothered going inside all you had to do was crank up the hose and quench your thirst. You could even use your neighbour’s hose, nobody cared! There was none of this forking over hard earned cash for 600mL of two different atoms.
Now sit back kids because I’m about to drop a knowledge bomb. The tap is still in existence, the water is still the same, and the only thing that has changed in the water industry since your parents were kids are the fact that it started existing. As a matter of fact, the majority of the bottled water today is filtered tap water, and not even that thoroughly filtered. It has even been found in several cases that tap water is healthier for you. The reason bottled water exists is because the big soda companies wanted something to market when people started to figure out that the carbonated beverages the big wigs were selling them were extremely unhealthy.
I have a proposal for you today, join the growing resistance against the unnecessary bottled water. Instead of paying up to $3 in a convenience store try using the tap for once. Yes, the magical faucet STILL EXISTS. Shockingly enough, bottled water companies have gone out of their way to convince the people that the tap is less sanitary than the bottle; all it takes is an easy Google search to learn that this is more often than not, untrue (most bottled water brands are simply bottled tap water). So try reusing those bottles that you paid for. Tear off the label and write “Tap” on the side of the bottle to let others know of your defiance to “The Man.”
Viva la Agua
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So what do you do? I’ll tell you what you do, your basic survival reflex brings you to find the nearest reasonable source of water. If you were to think about that nearest reasonable source right now you would probably be thinking of a store where you would buy water in a bottle, or ‘bottled water’ if you will. This does not seem out of the ordinary to you at all because you have been raised in a world where people buy bottled water, a world that markets a necessity for life.
You have been “informed” the powers-that-be (in America we would say “The Man”) that water in a bottle is the cleanest and healthiest water you can obtain. I happen to know, after a decent amount of research, that this is absolute folly.
Let me take you back in time, before you born, before I was born, probably around the time your parents were adolescents. Back in those days, when someone thirsted for a beverage while enjoying a day of playing outside in the sun (they had to make do with what was outside because they had no video games to melt their brains), they too would search for the nearest source of water. They would not go to the nearest store to claim such a life essential however, oh goodness no, they would go INSIDE THEIR OWN HOME.
“Ridiculous” you might say. Well, you see back then every home contained a magical tool called a ‘faucet’ that would produce FREE WATER. That’s right, your parents had the ability to turn a nozzle and extinguish thirst for free. And that’s not all! When they would go outside, the magical water fairies that powered the faucet (or tap for those of you who are unfamiliar with the slang) followed them to another magical item of the era: The Hose. Hoses were everywhere back in the day. If you were thirsty and could not be bothered going inside all you had to do was crank up the hose and quench your thirst. You could even use your neighbour’s hose, nobody cared! There was none of this forking over hard earned cash for 600mL of two different atoms.
Now sit back kids because I’m about to drop a knowledge bomb. The tap is still in existence, the water is still the same, and the only thing that has changed in the water industry since your parents were kids are the fact that it started existing. As a matter of fact, the majority of the bottled water today is filtered tap water, and not even that thoroughly filtered. It has even been found in several cases that tap water is healthier for you. The reason bottled water exists is because the big soda companies wanted something to market when people started to figure out that the carbonated beverages the big wigs were selling them were extremely unhealthy.
I have a proposal for you today, join the growing resistance against the unnecessary bottled water. Instead of paying up to $3 in a convenience store try using the tap for once. Yes, the magical faucet STILL EXISTS. Shockingly enough, bottled water companies have gone out of their way to convince the people that the tap is less sanitary than the bottle; all it takes is an easy Google search to learn that this is more often than not, untrue (most bottled water brands are simply bottled tap water). So try reusing those bottles that you paid for. Tear off the label and write “Tap” on the side of the bottle to let others know of your defiance to “The Man.”
Viva la Agua
Read more by Jacob
