Leo Broderick 1, Aquafina 0

Peter Rukavina

You may recall my shameful commentary on the presentation regarding bottled water made to the Eastern School District back in September. Well, something must have stuck with me.

At a catered meeting yesterday at the University of PEI we were offered chilled bottles of Aquafina bottled water. I reached for one, and then realized that someone else at the meeting had just complained about how the china mugs we’d been provided with for coffee were freezing cold. Then I spotted the tiny kitchen, with a sink, about 6 steps from the meeting room.

I put back the Aquafina, took a pre-chilled mug into the kitchen, and filled it up with good old Charlottetown tap water.

Malpeque Road Water Pump Station Plaque

Comments

Submitted by Andrew MacPherson on

Permalink

Bottled water has its place of course in dire circumstances (mainly the fact that it is a CONTAINER full of water) but I found even the tapwater in New York City was excellent when I was there a few weeks ago. I have memories of Halifax and Moncton water having a chlorinated taste but that was indeed decade(s) ago…perhaps things have changed?

Submitted by Steven Garrity on

Permalink

Ever since the rash of boil orders a few years back, the water in Charlottetown has had a mild chlorine taste. It tastes great through a filter though, or even with a few minutes in a pitcher in the fridge.

Add new comment

Plain text

  • Allowed HTML tags: <b> <i> <em> <strong> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

About This Blog

Photo of Peter RukavinaI am . I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person.

To learn more about me, read my /nowlook at my bio, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, or get in touch (peter@rukavina.net is the quickest way). You can subscribe to an RSS feed of posts, an RSS feed of comments, or receive a daily digests of posts by email.

Search