Monday, May 29, 2006

Potable water, you know, the kind you can easily carry from one place to another.

With no set agenda today, I offer you this to think about, whether you're stuck at work on an off-day for the rest of the country or just taking afternoon naps at home.

* I have no set rules for passing out change to the homeless on off-ramps, though sometimes they can be pushy and I choose to ignore them. My question is where are the homeless getting markers for their signs?

If I chose to start handing out Sharpies instead of change, would this be a good or a bad thing from their perspective?

* Sometimes when I leave the water running when I brush my teeth, I'm struck by just how good we have it. The water in your toilet is much better than most people drink. The only difference between our toilet and drinking water is about three feet of pipe.

Don't believe me? turn on your sink, flush the toilet and see what happens with the water pressure.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You know that I'm not a commie-pinko-tree-hugging liberal by any stretch of the definition, but I will give credence to this fact that was presented to me not that long ago:

The U.S. has by far the cleanest and safest tap water anywhere in the world, yet at the same time we also consume by several multiples the most amount of bottled water. This inverse relationship continues down the line: the wealthier the nation, the cleaner its tap water but also the more likely its population drinks bottled water.

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense if the people in the third-world portions of Africa, Asia, and South America where tap water is unconsumable were the ones drinking bottled water instead? When it comes to water, we are definitely spoiled.