How We Can Drink Water and Help Save the Environment

Deepak Chopra wants us all to help protect our environment, noble. Now I am not a tree hugger but I do believe we owe it to ourselves to help keep this precious resource called Earth in the best possible condition. This is not a political piece nor an environmental piece. It is about IRONY.

OK, Do you drink bottled water? Why? Convenient? Tastes good? Handy? Filtered? When some of us were kids we drank water straight from a garden hose. What changed? MARKETING!! PLUS the fact that the news only gives us HYSTERIA!! Tap water is not bad for us. With some exceptions of some bad chemicals found in some drinking water it is very safe. SOLUTION: Filter it yourself.

What is the irony? Well let’s take a look at that bottled water. I have been to the factory. They simply filter TAP WATER!!! Then they bottle it, put it on a truck and deliver it to your store and have the nerve to charge a dollar or more for 12 ounces. We buy $Billions of dollars a year in bottled water. We are filling our landfills with empty bottles. Trucks drive long distances carrying that water to you and burning lots of Diesel and polluting our air. The bottles are made from crude oil, so the trucks and the bottles increase our dependence on foreign oil. So why are you drinking it? Because you have been sold a bill of goods? Because HYSTERIA and MARKETING work?

You don’t believe me? Maybe Penn and Teller can convince you

So, we don’t like chlorine and the water tastes bad. Get a simple carbon filter and filter your own water for pennies a gallon. Here are all the benefits. We save lots of money. We help conserve our environment. Who does not want to do that?

In our house, we have a Britta. It is a pitcher sized carbon filter that goes in the fridge. Out of pocket = about $20.00, cost for a gallon of water - pennies. There are carbon filters for the water dispenser on your fridge. There are sink side filters that anyone can install and you can start drinking great tasting water, without the chlorine for pennies a gallon. More adventurous people get whole house systems and bathe in filtered water as well as drink it and wash their clothes with it.

Repeat: Net result, we get to drink great tasting water. We can save a lot of money and help protect our environment and – NO more IRONY.