As you prepare for the biggest snow storm in more than two years, here’s a money and environment saving tip from your pals at Village 14. Buy batteries, milk, bread and eggs if you must. Then grab some empty containers and hold them under one of these things.
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Or, you know, if you really have to, melt some of that snow stuff. It’s almost exactly like water! (Just like in 1978, before there even was such a thing as bottled water!)
It never ceases to amaze me how many people still think that bottled water is somehow purer and safer to drink than the stuff that comes out of our tap from Quabbin Reservoir. I’m a great fan of Quabbin and it’s huge, fully protected watershed although not many people here seem to know about it. It’s a great place to visit and spend a day.
Municipal water supplies are subject to far more stringent controls for both health and safety than any kind of bottled spring or treated water. And there are few other reservoir supplied municipal water supplies that taste as good as what we have here.
The Quabbin Watershed runs almost the entire width of the state in Central Massachusetts and has been fully protected and preserved for the past 75 years. It is among the most pristine protected areas anywhere in the country. This is why the water we receive from there requires only very minor chemical treatment.
We recently returned from a trip to Panama where we drank nothing but bottled water. Quabbin water tasted especially crisp, pure and natural when we returned.
We had hard water where I grew up, and during droughts it also had to be overly treated. Hard to find another way of expressing this, but the water there had texture. Not an adjective one likes to use in describing water.
Our water here is fabulous (and by the way, the local pipes do need a little work).