Nice note in today's Times about bottled water. Too bad it took a dilettante like Alice Waters to make the valid point that the water vendors have an entire generation of us convinced we cannot safely drink tap water. When I travel, I drink the wines and the water of the region. SOP in NYC restaurants is to offer you a bottle of water, because you are convinced that tap is toxic. Au contraire, mes amis; our city water is better tasting and at least as healthy for you as the crap they loaded onto a freighter in Europe six months ago, and spent tons of fuel (and CO2) to get it to you.
They brilliantly created the myth that (their) bottled is more pure, better for your kidneys and digestion, and that we New Yorkers drink from toilets unless we pay for their costly glass bottles.
I'd sell my stock in the water companies; their days are numbered, or maybe not. We Americans will swallow anything.
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