Sunday, April 20, 2008

Water water everywhere and nothing to drink it from. (with apologies to the English majors)

Here's the deal. We can't all keep drinking bottled water because if nothing else we're filling up the landfills with the plastic bottles.

Unfortunately, now we also find out that we can't drink from all of those nifty sports bottles everyone's now sporting. The nice, hard, shiny, colorful, clear, ones are made from a chemical, bisphenol, that leaches into the water you're drinking. Look on the bottom of your sports bottle. You'll see a triangle with a number in it. If that number is a 7 they say you really shouldn't drink from it. The same is true of the hard plastic baby bottles, so you might want to switch to glass.

As a little side bonus, if you're drinking from a glass water glass and getting your water from a cooler at the office or even home, check the big bottle the water comes in. Chances are it's got a little 7 in its little triangle.

I guess it's city water for me.

cnchnz

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