The Evening Standard has for the last few weeks been running a campaign to persuade people to ask for a jug of tap water when they eat at a restaurant, and eschew the snazzy bottled stuff.
The paper today published a mass of worrying statistics about our weakness for bottled H2O. Apparently, Britons drink three billion bottles of water every year, of which half a billion come from overseas. Transporting bottled water produces an estimated 32,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the annual energy use of 6,000 homes.
All this is sobering stuff (as, indeed, is water itself) and I am happy to say that at home, where the water supply is sourced from the pristinely pure Llyn Cowlyd, I have no problem with drinking whatever comes out of the tap.
But London? London tap water tastes vile. It has probably been recycled at least half a dozen times. It has a metallic pungency that instantly repels.
So sorry, Standard. I’m sure you mean well. But I’m afraid that if I’m eating in London, I’ll carry on asking for Evian (even if it is “naive” spelt backwards). Or, better still, Decantae (which is produced in Clwyd West).
The paper today published a mass of worrying statistics about our weakness for bottled H2O. Apparently, Britons drink three billion bottles of water every year, of which half a billion come from overseas. Transporting bottled water produces an estimated 32,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the annual energy use of 6,000 homes.
All this is sobering stuff (as, indeed, is water itself) and I am happy to say that at home, where the water supply is sourced from the pristinely pure Llyn Cowlyd, I have no problem with drinking whatever comes out of the tap.
But London? London tap water tastes vile. It has probably been recycled at least half a dozen times. It has a metallic pungency that instantly repels.
So sorry, Standard. I’m sure you mean well. But I’m afraid that if I’m eating in London, I’ll carry on asking for Evian (even if it is “naive” spelt backwards). Or, better still, Decantae (which is produced in Clwyd West).
4 comments:
You're in the know. Who's the sacked Welsh civil servant blogger?
Recycled water that eminated from some Labour MP, who are all known to be full of P--- and wind!
What a bloody awful thought.
Stick to the bottled stuff!
I think the blogger is in the DWP. Didn't know he/she had been discovered yet, though.
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