Friday, July 27, 2007

So it was tap water after all!

At my former job at the pizzeria call centre, one of the most popular items from the vending machine was bottled water. Couldn't figure out why that was -- and why people would pay seventy-five cents for what tasted like tap water when it was labelled bottled water. Until I checked the label, and oddly enough, it said it was tap water from Mississauga. Yes, Hazel McCallion country!

Today, Pepsi said they're going to be more upfront about where the water is from as well as how it's filtered (reverse osmosis). Turns out the federal government doesn't think it's a very efficient way to clean up water (about 50% is purged in the process). That may be fine for some parts of the world where many sources are polluted beyond belief; but where we pay utility bills to get the water cleaned up already, it doesn't make sense to filter water even more that's already 99% or more pure.

Get the lead out of the water? Try running the kitchen faucet on cold three minutes about once every other week. It's still less expensive than bottled or a faucet water filter. Or a reverse osmosis system.

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