Do you buy bottled water?  I’m looking for you!  Bottled water is such  a waste of money and time. Who knew that the big soft drink companies would get rich selling water from faucets. If you look at a lot of the bottled water labels you’ll see PWS listed as the source. That stands for Public Water Supply. In other words, a faucet!! The only difference between you and them, is they have a water filter. If you buy just one small bottle of water a day at your favorite coffee shop, you’ll spend  over $500.00 a year on water. It’s not free from your faucet, but it is very close. It’s so cheap that it’s almost impossible to tell what one glass of water would cost you from your water bill. I’m sure it’s a fraction of a penny.

On top of that waste of money is the environmental disaster that bottled water is. That’s right, a disaster. If you fill one of those small bottles close to 1/3 full of oil, that will represent how much oil is consumed in the manufacture and distribution of that bottle. That’s crazy, especially when you think of how much we rely on foreign oil and all it’s attendant problems. look up bottled water on Wikipedia and read down to the environmental costs of all this bottled water consumption. Your throwaway water bottle contributes to that.  Plus, those bottles are clogging our landfills and showing up as pollution islands in the ocean. These bottles will last for thousands of years. Google water bottle landfill and read some of the articles. It’s amazing.

You can have an under counter water filter in your home and buy a refillable water bottle to carry with you. I use a stainless steel one that will last forever and is easily cleaned. It would actually be better than the soft drink companies filter, because they use reverse osmosis, which wastes 3 gallons of water for every gallon produced. That’s crazy too, and we won’t install them for that reason. We can install an undercounter filter in your kitchen,

a whole house filter and also a  chlorine removal shower head.

It makes sense in so many ways that I’m surprised everyone doesn’t have one!

In my house I also have an Instant Hot water dispenser, so I can make one cup of tea or coffee without using a coffee pot or boiling a pot of water. The water for the instant hot is filtered, so it tastes great as well.