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Take your own water with you. Some things are unavoidable (like flights, airports etc.) but this is a harm reduction exercise. It doesn’t have to be perfect. If
by bergenty 4y ago
Take your own water with you. Some things are unavoidable (like flights, airports etc.) but this is a harm reduction exercise. It doesn’t have to be perfect. If you take your own water with you, you should be able to cover 90%+ of your consumption.
- deathanatos 4y ago> Some things are unavoidable (like flights, airports etc.) You can "take your own water with you" for those, for the amount that it matters to this discussion. It's not going to be literally your own water — generally speaking, TSA will force one to dump "dangerous" water into a giant trash bin in the middle of the checkpoint¹ — but you can normally refill the bottle once inside the secure area from a water fountain. Now … it might be tap, unfiltered, the local jurisdiction might be bad at water, IDK. But it's not quite an entirely lost cause. Specifically, an empty reusable water bottle can traverse the security checkpoint. (We own some mostly non-plastic ones, too.) ¹comically, we were once forced to discard water that came from within the secured zone at the checkpoint.
- sneak 4y agoTap water is way worse for me, personally. This is why I drink bottled in the first place. My point is that drinking out of plastic is basically unavoidable in many circumstances. It isn't a choice we make.
- nradov 4y agoWhy is tap water worse? Is your local water contaminated?
- SoftTalker 4y agoMost bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water. And there are fewer regulations over bottled water quality than there are municipal water.
- sneak 4y agoI'm aware; the filtration filters out the thing in tap water to which I am sensitive (chlorine). The regulations don't cover that.