The Observatory

Today as I was buying my water at the DC, I overheard one of the employees saying that Aquafina was owned by the Pepsi company. My immediate thought was, “Hm. Maybe I should drink more Pepsi.” I do not know if Aquafina is actually owned by Pepsi. It’s kind of irrelevant. My point is that I would want to support a company that sells water without anything added to it. That probably seems silly until you realize that Dasani, the Coke brand of water, had salt added to it “for flavor.” I think that’s BS. I think they add salt so you’ll get thirsty and buy more water from them.

This sort of thing initially led me to avoid Fiji because they don’t use the standard nutrition label and all I could find on the bottle was that it had extra minerals in it. That sounded suspicious. Forget for a moment that there’s this stuff called mineral water, because I do all the time. Anyway, after more bottle-reading I found out it’s all stuff that naturally filters into the water and that it’s all pretty good for you. I also doubt any of it’s salt since the PH is slightly basic (yay chem knowledge). There’s also the fact that it actually tastes good. I don’t mean I think it tastes good because I like the label, I mean it actually tastes more like nothing than any other water I’ve ever tasted.

This whole thing probably sounds like a commercial, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should be aware of what’s in your water. Especially tap-water. My mom’s a tap-water drinker, and even she is afraid of what’s in the water these days. I’m not saying you need to buy bottled water – just get a filter or something. Knowing is half the battle and all that….