Skip the Bottled Water

The other day I was fancying an ice cold bottle of water.  The weather in Colorado being unusually nice these days, it was hot and nothing sounded better than cold, naturally pure water.  I happened to be in a place where a bottled water dispenser was available and I quickly put 2 crisp dollar bills into the machine and waited anxiously to hear the “drop” of the bottle dispensing from the machine.

I took a quick swig and for some reason decided to read the label on the bottle.  “Source:  Public Water Supply.”   What?  What happened to the all natural water sourced from the volcanic tunnels of an exotic island and naturally purified using reverse osmosis and then distilled using an advanced state of the art process powered by solar energy?

My first thought after reading the label….what a waste of $2.  Americans spend over $10 billion dollars each year on bottled water.   That figure represents roughly $1.25 per gallon which is 300x the cost of tap water.  There has to be a better solution.

I’ve got one.  Most households have this already sitting in their home.  Their kitchen specifically.  It’s called a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser.   Your refrigerator’s water dispenser typically provides additional filtration.  Filtration that removes 99% of potential harmful contaminants such as chlorine taste and odor, heavy metals and chemicals and microbial cysts including parasites.

So, put your money back in your pocket, save the Earth from plastic bottles (only 28% are recycled) and push your glass up against your refrigerator’s water dispenser.  You will find tons of different refrigerators that have water dispensers built in that have different features. The Kitchen Aid makes a great refrigerator that has 5 different doors and has a great built-in water and ice dispenser, check it out.