Paying for water

Buy a steel flask and carry it with you! Paying for water in a bottle in a first world country is crazy.

Water is about to replace soda pop as the most popular packaged drink, even though it pours from taps at a fraction of the price.

“It is remarkable to me,” said Gleick, “that sales of bottled water are continuing to rise in a country where we have cheap, incredibly safe, incredibly reliable tap water that’s available to basically everyone.”

Source: Why Americans keep hitting the bottle (of water) | Toronto Star