One less thing to buy at Costco

Populicious pointed me to a NY Times article about drinking water vs. tap water that has me asking a handful of questions.

Is this writer a shill for municipal water suppliers? What the hell does that mean? Will there be a backlash of misinformation provided by the bottled water industry? Why do you get one brand when you spell naïve backwards?

I wonder if we can taste a difference between tap & Kirkland & Arrowhead. Why was wine the only thing used to palate-cleanse between samples in the writer's informal experiment? Why not beer? Or Maker's Mark?

Portia tells me to avoid bottled water. It's wasteful to make so many bottles. Our house recycles maybe half of them, probably more than most, but definitely not enough to minimize the environmental impact.

Developing countries have limited access to clean water of any kind, which makes a strong argument to also find, the illogical enthusiasm for bottled water not simply peculiar, but distasteful.