Concord, Massachusetts Bans Small Water Bottles
This story on the BBC web site shows how people get their green priorities wrong.
We should probably drink tap water and the only time, I drink the bottled stuff, is if I need water on a train, plane or on the street.
They have banned water, but not fizzy drinks, which unlike water make you obese. But then if you did ban fizzy drinks, the cola manufacturers would have something to say about it.
I did have a drink out today. it was a lemonade at Leon in Kings Cross station. This is the nutrition details for the drink. It did come in an appropriately sized plastic cup.
It is good to be green, but you must be scientifically green and make sure the science and the economics stack up.
I have an aside here on the subject of lemonade. In the 1970s, we were driving across the United States and needed some petrol. We pulled into the garage and the pump attendant asked if we needed lemonade. It was his slang for unleaded petrol.
The Anonymous Widower 
People with certain medical conditions need to drink fizzy water – a combination of lower saliva production in affected side of face, and the drying effect of the pain killers mean I need to drink water, and it was suggested fizzy is better, which indeed it is, still doesnt refresh my mouth as much. Fizzy lemonade type drunks are full of rubbish. I carry Morrisons soda water with me all the time, but they are small bottles, large ones are too heavy and wont fit in my handbag. I have larger bottles at home.
Comment by Liz P | January 4, 2013 |
I’ve heard a couple of medical professional; one doctor and a pharmacist be very pro the healing properties of fizzy water. After all CO2 is a mild antiseptic.
Comment by AnonW | January 4, 2013 |
I dont drink the fancy expensive water from natural springs, which are apparently supposed to be good for you, but I find they taste of chemicals! But fizzy tap water is great – and easier to buy than make with a soda syphon as to carry it around when you have made it means carrying very heavy glass bottles.
Comment by Liz P | January 4, 2013 |