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Unless you are stocking up on earthquake supplies or stuck at the O.C. County Fair, stop wasting your money on bottled water -- it's as good as a Los Angeles tap:
A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices.Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source."
Bottled water may feel cleaner, but there's nothing sustainable about it. It's served to you in polyethylene terephthalate, a non-renewable source, for one. Let's add on the gas-consuming miles it was driven to be delivered to where you bought it. Let's add on the money you spent on a placebo. Let's drink Los Angeles water.
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Remember, your water quality is only as good as the quality of your piping system. Aside from the high levels of chlorine and fluoride in Los Angeles tap water, it is not, as most NY translpants like to think, "bacteria-ridden 3rd-world quality water" - au contraire - all that chlorine has killed the germs. Those of you with poor-quality water had better invest in an upgrade of your old lead piping system to the newer copper ones, or if you live in an apartment building, threaten your landlord with threats of violence to get them to upgrade your water system.
"...threaten your landlord with threats of violence to get them to upgrade your water system."
Yeah, that always works! And get them to lower the rent while you're at it. :)
I have no problem drinking tap water; if you don't like the taste (which is due to varying mineral content, not "dirtiness"), get a Brita Filter. Buy a reusable water bottle, or if you're lazy like me, just reuse your Arrowhead or Fiji bottle over and over again.
Jeffrey Steingarten did a big ol' article on taste-testing water; after sampling and analyzing several different types of bottled and city water, his conclusive favorite? New York tap.