Stop buying bottled water
Mayor Nickels is asking the citizens of Seattle to stop buying bottled water. Per the Seattle Times:
This morning, Nickels launched a bigger mission: To try to get Seattleites to stop buying bottled water.
With a five-foot-tall stack of water bottles and 56 oil barrels as a backdrop at Westlake Park, Nickels said buying bottled water costs 2,400 times as much as drinking tap water — and Seattle has some of the best city water in the world.
The stack of water bottles represented the number of empty bottles that end up in the city’s garbage every 37 minutes. The oil barrels represented the amount of oil consumed to make and transport the bottled water that Seattle consumes in 12 hours.
In my household, I drink tap water and my husband drinks Brita-filtered water. I carry a BPA-free bottle filled with tap water. Having grown up with well water, I find Seattle’s tap water to taste perfectly fine.
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I’m all for this and think it’s a great idea. For most of us there’s really not a reason to go and buy bottled water. Get a BPA free bottle and fill ‘er up with whatever you like. If you like filtered water get a filter and use the DIY britta filter method found here and save some money: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-refill-a-disposable-Brita-brand-water-pit/
I wonder how many barrels of oil it took to make the visual impact of having 56 oil barrels piled behind him. =)
Yes but John I wonder how many barrels of oil that visual impact will save once people see how wasteful consuming bottled water is. ;)
I drink tap water. It’s fine. It’s cheap. It’s easy. It’s good for the environment. One of the easy decisions.
I almost posted about this, Wesa. I just started drinking tap water over the past couple months because I read where the quality of our water is as good or even better than most bottled waters. It took me a little time to come to terms with tap water, though. I’d been drinking Brita or bottled water for 10 years. I still drink bottled water when I’m traveling, though.
I drink bottled water at home because my personal tap water tastes less than pleasant; I live in a very old building and I don’t think the pipes have been replaced since it was built a century ago. I’ll give Tony’s DIY filter a try, though, and see if that helps the taste.
@gargamella: Does that mean I can drive a hummer so long as it convinces more people to buy a hybrid?
I don’t disagree that the visual image is good.
However, perhaps there was somewhere where there already were 56 oil barrels and rather than moving them to the park, having a press conference and then moving them back, they could have all just went to where the oil barrels were.
I meant my first post mostly in jest, but, now, I’m beginning to think I should have been serious.
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to get sparkling water out of the tap. Otherwise, I use Brita-ized tap water (like Zee, my water runs through hundred-year-old plumbing) or the water cooler at the office.
@josh: "it’s difficult to get sparkling water out of the tap"
Actually… sparkling water always came out of seltzer bottles with a co2 injector in the past. I don’t know why you can’t do that now. http://www.fantes.com/seltzer.html
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