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Friday, March 14, 2008

Bottle Water

posted by on March 14 at 12:30 PM

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Mayor reports city’s most pressing issue resolved!

Now, about that police contract…

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1

I was far more worried about the continued lack of reliable and frequent bus transit service in this city being bogged down by gridlock.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 14, 2008 12:40 PM
2

That's bad news for the local business Costco, as city/county employees buy their cases and cases of bottled water from them.

Posted by hairyson | March 14, 2008 12:44 PM
3

Baby steps.

Posted by Ari Spool | March 14, 2008 12:47 PM
4

Nowhere does the article say that this is Seattle's most pressing problem. Because it obviously isn't. But it IS a more pressing problem than plastic shopping bags, which all the oh-so-trendy eco-freaks manage to get so worked up about.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 14, 2008 12:48 PM
5

I am glad they took care of this: and truly a more pressing issue than the violence on Cap. Hill or homelessness or poor transit options for getting around in Seattle....

Posted by Andrew | March 14, 2008 12:55 PM
6

Are there really any folks out there who advocate for bottled water, other than self-serving business reasons?

Posted by fluteprof | March 14, 2008 12:57 PM
7

I think the Poison Society backs them, @6.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 14, 2008 12:59 PM
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@6: Have you made coffee with Seattle's tap water? It tastes like crap!

Posted by raindrop | March 14, 2008 1:00 PM
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Counting the costs of this and that...

the underbelly of oil consumer products and e-waste re-soul-lutions....

my feet hurt from walking....

and the corporations who will continue to bottle water and mine minerals and keep seperating international crimes and issues of regional locality....

this will ultimately end up here..... all of us reminding each other that it is.....

mis-appropriated tax dollars, lobbyists with with power ties and political death that brings an end of disfunctionalism and psychotic behaviors of unresponsible institutions and governments.

If your gonna go green... lobby for industrial hemp and the green buy products that help the enviornment....

and then the lobbyists can mellow out their greed and get really cool about lobbying for good social reform....
ahem...amen.

Posted by danielbennettkieneker | March 14, 2008 1:07 PM
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Depends on where you are, raindrop, and what shape your pipes are in. If you're south of the ship canal, your water comes from the Cedar River watershed, and is delicious. North, it comes from the Tolt, and sucks donkey scabs. But filtered it's passable.

Banning bottled water outright city, er, region-wide would do a lot more good than playing games with plastic bags.

Posted by Fnarf | March 14, 2008 1:07 PM
11

I for one, am amazed that Fnarf, after a long day, finally posts something not just insightful but true.

Man, you must have been really hungover, @10.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 14, 2008 1:11 PM
12

I'm from Tennessee, and drink from a hose out back. All tastes the same to me, Fnarf.

Posted by fluteprof | March 14, 2008 1:34 PM
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I didn't say I was hungover, Will.

Posted by Fnarf | March 14, 2008 1:43 PM
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There are some exceptions, but generally I'm amazed that people are willing to spend more for bottled water than they do for gasoline (even at $4 a gallon). I've lived and traveled to a lot of places, and Seattle's water is fucking awesome compared to 90% of the planet. You people that drink designer bottled water are crazy and have way too much money.

Posted by Reverse Polarity | March 14, 2008 2:06 PM
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City volunteers hospitalized from dehydration...Next on King 4.

Posted by TheMisanthrope | March 14, 2008 2:16 PM
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It *is* convenient to have bottled water handy. My local water supply is groundwater-drawn, and tastes great, so I generally just buy a case of bottled water and then refill the bottles over and over for a good six months or so, until they become too crinkled to use.

Posted by laterite | March 14, 2008 2:30 PM
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Okay, maybe every 3-4 months. Still, I've seen people lugging multiple cases out of Costco, saddened to know all those bottles will probably end up sitting in a trash pile. REUSE, people!

Posted by laterite | March 14, 2008 2:35 PM
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@13 - a wise man would have accepted the graceful out I gave you.

(wink)

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 14, 2008 4:25 PM

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