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Emerson bans bottled water
By adamg on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 7:00pm
WECB reports Emerson is being more thoreau than Concord, which tried and failed to ban bottled water: It's not only banning the bottles, it's setting up replacement "hydration stations" (Ed. question: And those would be different from water fountains or bubblers how?). Only problem, WECB reports: A student who finds herself without her official college refillable bottle may wind up buying the sugary sodas or juices the college still permits.
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Hydration stations
are likely bottle refillers rather than the normal bubblers.
Good for Emerson
It's a private organization and they can do pretty much whatever they want. Hope it works out.
I happened upon one of those
I happened upon one of those at Logan this weekend! It was awesome. I'd love to see more around.
aquapocalypse
What about aquapocalypse part 2?
Bottled water is such a waste of money
A lot of it is "purified" tap water anyway. People worry about $4 a gallon gas, but spend 3 or 4 times that for water.
Except during an
Except during an aquapocalypse.
You still don't need purchased water
I mean, we all purchase it via our water bill, but you can also just have a jug or a Brita or something in your fridge for such purposes.
Sick of bottled water
I'm also tired of restaurants attempting to make you buy bottles of Aquafina. Anyone else?
I now fill a water bottle at home and carry it around.
Which restaurants sell
Which restaurants sell bottles of Aquafina? I've never been refused when requesting tap.
More common in the fast food places
I've not encountered this at any "nicer" restaurants. This is something I've encountered more at fast food places. Taco Bell, had this happen at Pizzeria Regina a few times, Qdoba, Flamers, and at many places in airports. Vapiano even has Aquafina. They also have small glasses now so you can get water from the fountain tap. For a while I had a very hard time getting places to give me a cup. Then places started charging a nickle, and sometimes a quarter for a cup of tap water.
As I recall, didn't the local bottler for Aquafina
use the Ayer public water supply as their water source at one point.
Who knows?
Is there also a standard for how much sodium their water has? My own preference is Poland Springs water. After watching "Blue Gold" I felt bad and stopped buying it, or drinking it though. My mobile water container gets lots of use now.
I like the trend
At restaurants to provide "filtered tap" or even "sparkling tap" water as a complimentary service. I know Area 4 and Grafton Street do, and I think Russell House too. It's silly I know, but somehow sparkling water feels more fun than just "plain"
When did we become so thirsty?
I don't understand why there is this great need for bottled water. I remember the days when we could go about our business all day, walking, driving, working, going to school, etc. and survive without an everpresent bottle of water.
Good question
I pretty much remember having had a bottle I could take with me all my life -- a sports-type bottle that I filled from the tap, not this wasteful disposable crap. At some schools I attended the rules about only eating and drinking during breaks included water, and at others it was fine to have water in a container with a lid. By high school, I don't think anyone cared.
I also remember in the early '80s when people would make jokes about people who "drink Evian" and would make cracks about people paying a dollar for a bottle of something that you can get for close to free.
It also seems that school and work and such were structured so that everyone had a meal break during which they could sit down and have an actual glass of (presumably tap) water, and more people were sitting down and having dinner (and water!) rather than being overscheduled and running around all day and evening.
I remember the old days when
I remember the old days when we used to drink out of bubblers...and we liked it!
Until I saw the episode of "Quincy" when the source of an epidemic turned out to be a bubbler.
Truth stranger than fiction
The foundations of modern epidemiology go back to the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London, in which John Snow determined the source of the outbreak was the mid-19th-century equivalent of a bubbler. 'Course, back then, they didn't use chlorine.
Water fountain problem
http://www.hulu.com/watch/333235/parks-and-recreat...