I should get a second canteen so I can like… wash it.
People who have drinkable water but buy water bottles are straight up evil, not to mention fucking stupid. I’m constantly baffled by it.
i think a lot of people don’t trust that their water is drinkable since the water infrastructure in the Amerikkkan reich is highly neglected. Water that is deemed safe regularly turns out to not be because they don’t test it often enough. This has led to a vague distrust of an underfunded government, and a recourse to buy bottled water from private corporations because “at least it’s purified.” yeah it’s stupid, but there’s a series of rationalizations behind it. That’s not even getting into reactionary conspiracy theories about fluoride and hormones.
If only they understood that buying bottled water inevitably leads to the public utility water being more contaminated with microplastics in the long run.
If it ever came out that the bottled water industry lobbied against improvements and upgrades to public water infrastructure so peoples’ trust in it would be diminished to the point that they would rather buy bottled, I would not be surprised in the slightest.
Millennials were absolutely the “raised on bottled water” generation. I know multiple people who essentially never drank anything except bottled water because southern California tap water was so yucky.
Happy to say I was gifted an overpriced steel water bottle from one of those name brands and I’ve used it daily for several years
I’m so thankful my university had a bunch of good water dispensers (and normal fountains, of course) around campus that were designed to refill bottles. For a few years basically my only source of water was the canteen I carried with me to campus to drink out of.
Isn’t that a crazy thought? A bottle I could reuse, because I was offered a good way to reuse it.
Fortunately, the Boer War is over.
