On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:51:20 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:
>On 18:40 22 Nov 2018, wrote in
>news
>
>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 graham wrote:
>>>
>>>A US woman on the CBC this morning pointed out that bottled water is
>>>96% water and 4% plastic. Lettuce is 96% water and 4% cellulose etc.
>>>Therefore, not only are square miles of good agricultural land being
>>>wasted but also all that fuel used to transport "water" across the
>>>country in refrigerated containers.
>>
>> Do you know what else is 4% water and 4% cellulose... your pinhead.
>> Bottled water is bottled very local to where it's marketed, from
>> someone's hose bib... not transported more than perhaps fifty miles
>> and is NOT refrigersated. Do you know who else is a pinhead, all
>> those who buy bottled water at outrageous prices so they can pollute
>> the planet with mega-tons of plastic. And there's nothing special
>> about bottled water, it's only filtered for particulates like sand...
>> bottled water is no better than what comes from your municipal water
>> source... you'd do better to use your own tap water passed through a
>> paper coffee filter. All those cartridge type filters marketed are no
>> different than cheapo aquarium filters... you can actually buy
>> yourself a five gallon glass aquarium and an aquarium filter filled
>> with some glasswool and activated charcoal and make your own much
>> better than bottled water from your own tap water.
>
>> If your municipal water is chlorinated simply let it sit for a couple
>> three days and the chlorine will evaporate, same as is done with
>> aquarium water.
>
>Oh yeah. How practical is that.
A whole lot more practical than shopping for, schleping, and paying
for bottled water like a dumb ninny.
As a teen I bred and sold tropical fish in some forty 20 gallon tanks.
I also filtered and aerated all the water to remove sediment and
chlorination... was an ongoing process as fresh water was constantly
needed... basements came in handy. At twelve years old I made more
money breeding and selling fancy veil tail guppies than kootchie
collects in rent.
Also getting children an aqurium with a pair of guppies is better than
a class in Sex Ed.
These days this is the way:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...=3LA98PJX6D0JF