Monday, October 27, 2008

Water, water, everywhere

Welcome to Groovy Green Sisters! I recently took the pledge to "Break the Bottled Water Habit" at one of my favorite sites http://www.newdream.org/.
Break the Bottler Water Habit!
It is quite an eye opener to see how wasteful (and expensive!) it is to buy bottled water. And while it can be a great alternative to buying a soda when you are thirsty, with a little planning ahead, it is also just as easy to bring your own water from home!

We like to filter our water with a Brita, then fill up a gallon jug or two and keep it in the car on long trips. There tons of nice water bottles to choose from - I have the traditional plastic Nalgene, but if you are still worried about chemicals from the plastic leaching into the water, a stainless steel bottle like SIGG www.mysigg.com/ should do the trick.

At work we have a water filtration system instead of water bottles - it looks just like the bottom half of a water cooler, with the hot and cold spigots, but there are no heavy bottles to change. http://www.atlaswatersystems.com/

I was sad to learn that our 'local' water, Poland Spring "What it means to be from Maine," is now owned by Nestle Waters North America - actually a European company. They also bought up a bunch of other local water bottling plants. So... you buy water from Maine and a corporation in Europe is profiting from it - that's just strange.

I have been wanting to check out this new movie FLOW - in theaters now... hopefully I can catch it before it goes out! http://flowthefilm.com/ It chronicles that availability of fresh water on our planet and looks fascinating!

How have you changed your water habits?

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