1:33pm
August 22, 2014
Your bottled water habit is sucking California dry
If you’re reading this, chances are very high that your home has at least one — and maybe more! — magic appliance that produces clean water suitable for drinking. That’s one reason to avoid paying for bottled water.
Another reason? There’s a good chance the water you’re buying at the supermarket was bottled in California, a state currently enduring a severe drought.
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EVERYONE PLEASE AT LEAST TAKE A QUICK SECOND TO LOOK AT THIS
BECAUSE IT IS EFFECTING THE EXACT AREA I LIVE IN
Lots of people believe bottled water is safer and cleaner than tap water, when in reality there’s no evidence proving such a thing.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/water-bottle-pollution/
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/19/health/upwave-bottled-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/study-bottled-water-safer-tap-water/story?id=87558
Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!: Bottled Water segment, gives a very good and thorough summary of the bottled water culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHx6BX3HZJc
You want better water? Buy a Zero filter. SRSLY. Stop buying bottled if possible. You need water with you? Get reusable acrylic or glass water bottles (wrapped in a silicon sleeve) and fill it up from your filter pitcher. SAVE MONEY, SAVE MY STATE
Also worth mentioning a lot of soft drinks use water from these areas, it’s best to just generally avoid drinks that come in in plastic bottles.
The West has a serious serious water problem, to the point that I can’t make myself live out there for fear of when it all comes crashing down. There’s too many people living there, for the amount of water to support them, so it’s piped in from other places that can’t afford to lose the water. And that’s besides this bottled water issue.
I want to live in the redwoods so badly it makes me cry sometimes, but there are so many reasons I can never live there again. Money. Disability services. California politics. Medical care. Proximity to massive PTSD triggers (seriously the moment I left California the constant cold-sweat nightmares stopped). Running into people in the DD service system who I also knew from the psych system when I was younger and who pretend to know more about me than they really do. The ecological and water situation out there. I wish I could be one of those people who just says “Damn it all, I’ll make it work, one way or another,” but I can’t.
My dream is to visit one last time, at least one last time, and to make it work. But who knows.
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