Chicago has some of the best tap water around. I’ve always used tap water expect when I’m on the go and a fountain is nowhere is site. Only then have I had tap water. I really bought into Evian being spelled correctly backwords, and having been in the beverage business for a while, I remember reading the trade mags and learning how Coke could more porfitably sell tap water to consumers than it could soft-drinks.
Add to that the cost of all those toss-away plastic bottles on the eco-system, and its now wonder we marvel at the idiocy of it all. Once again corporations yank our pants down and run away to pollute the environment with OUR money.
But we CAN stop them. First, we stop buying bottled water ourselves and just use the tap.
Second, we tax anyone buying bottled water. Not just for being a polluter, but for stooopidity. Mayor Daley, something of a Green Pol himself, is behind it (Bloomberg is too), and it doesn’t hurt that it could close his budget gap. Now if we could just convince him that ticketing cars is bad for the environment.
Jerk. I don’t care care how clean Chicago water is, the water in my building sucks.