October 11, 2007
This New York Times article tells you how to make your own sparkling water at home so you can reduce your carbon footprint. Mostly, you have to buy machines and CO2 cartridges.
Along the same lines, I've been making my Gatorade at home instead of buying it (for very low prices) bottled at the store. But I can't help feeling a little ridiculous when I'm doing it (it takes time, and it requires a lot of water to clean the bottles), and the sparkling water piece has a me-tooish consumerism that makes me a little uncomfortable. Why is that?
By the way, there's also this weird claim from an accompanying article about filters and tap water:
Whether you drink it straight or carbonated, water from your tap is more closely regulated for purity than any you buy in a bottle. The Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for public water systems are stricter than the Food and Drug Administration’s for bottled water.Then why does bottled water taste so much better? The fact is that any perceptible impurities are very closely regulated -- by the market. Who would pay for bottled water that tastes impure? Of course, the market may not be doing much about imperceptible impurities (?), but it's certainly doing more about the perceptible ones than the EPA standards.
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