little_tippler

I drink a special kind of water - the brand is Del Cano

Tap water here is pretty great so that's what I do. I buy some bottled water at work, but it only costs me 21 cents a bottle (1.5 l) at the very cheap supermarket on our doorstep. That would be 33 cents in the States.

I'll drink water from the tap if it tastes good...water does have a taste, sometimes it is more noticeable than others. I think for people who are very sensitive to the taste of water and have the money to spend, I don't see why they shouldn't at least be helped by a water list that describes each one. A sommelier...that's taking it a little too far. Certain waters don't agree with people also, sensitive stomachs and all that.

I have friends living in London who tell me the tap water in certain areas gives them weird symptoms later, and also it tastes funny. So they don't drink tap water.

There's also the case of being poisoned by tap water, which has occurred ocasionally in some places (some toxic product being discharged into the water supply or water that hasn't been duly processed getting to taps in peoples' homes), but then I have also heard cases with tap water of a similar nature.

I think it's silly to pay ridiculous amounts of money for "special" water. I'm happy with tap water. But I also think that in the future we may have to pay to be able to obtain it...and that's a far more serious situation.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918