Survey: Tap or Bottled Water at Work?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 10. 1.08


Where I live, they now deliver water in glass jugs for the water coolers at work. It weighs forty pounds, costs twelve bucks, delivered sixty miles to a city with perfectly good drinking water that is too cheap to meter. In the staff lounge at the University where I teach, I can barely hang up my coat because the closet is full of ten empty polycarbonate jugs. How did it come to this?
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