Many people don’t trust the water that comes out of their taps, so they decide it will be safer if they only drink bottled water, instead. Unfortunately, many people don’t realize that bottled water is not that great for the environment, and may not be healthy for you, either. Sure, plastic can be recycled, but within that plastic is a little chemical called bisphenol A (BPA), that leaches out if the bottle becomes hot (as, for example, if you’re going out biking in 90 degree weather for a significant length of time).
And, the ironic thing of course is that the water in most of these bottles doesn’t come from fresh mountain streams, but from the same water supply you’re drinking from. (Of course, it probably isn’t being siphoned through decades-old pipes and picking up contaminants that way, which is what bottled water drinkers are worried about when it comes to their tap water.)
The solution is to simply install a purifier on your tap, or your refrigerator, should it have that function. (Indeed, fridges that have receptacles for getting cold water and ice without having to open the fridge door are great energy savers!)
But my question is this. Do you know, ...