Pausing in the middle of typing notes of meeting to frame a thought, the eyes rested on the bottles of water in the room.So.many.bottles.of.water. Die. What were we saying about bottled water? Oh dear.
When travelling, I've a hang-up about water. I drink ALOT of water in a day. I need to have ready access to water all the time. I'd grab a bottle of water to take into the plane, even if the plane offers bottled water. Extras are a psychological comfort.
I've been told that Phnom Penh is in the process of treating water from the Mekong to supply potable water to urban areas. Looking at the color of the Mekong and observing what people do inside the river, I'm not particularly confident that I'd like to drink the chemically treated end product from the tap. Neither do I have the habit of boiling water in hotel rooms. Terrible, I know.
Well. The friends always slime my tendency for ordering bottled water in restaurants. What?! It's on the menu isn't it? The bottles look good! I'm a sucker for advertising. Unfortunately, bottled water doesn't all taste the same. There is tasty water, I tell you.
As fond as I am about bottled water, I'm not going to raise ruckus and protest if our government decides to ban them. I'll just, well, filter water in Brita jugs or cap the tap with a filter and boil water lor. I shrugged and went back to a more pressing concern of completing the filenotes.
NB: Phnom Penh doesn't carry Fiji water. I carted 6 bottles over from home.
6 comments:
I'm very fortunately to be living in a country with very good sweet water. When I want fizzy water, I use Soda Stream. So I only rarely buy bottled water when I forget my water bottle and am extremely in need for a beverage. Thanks to the bottle refund system, I don't feel too guilty for doing that.
in our country, we cannot not have filters installed, either at the mains and/or at the taps. Then you'll still have to boil it. Now that I live in an apartment, I only have the taps filtered and water boiled, but when I was living in a landed prop, it was twice filtered and then boiled. Terrible right? Shows how much confidence I have in the water processing plants here...
So.. is Fiji water the "tasty water"? :)
kikare: lovely. i need to get soda stream here!!!!!! grrrrr.
jomel: your filtration process like so stringent lor! so safe! do you use those companies to cart u huge tubs of water to use from a dispenser style? yes. Fjiji and Volvic or Maniva. Evian is salty. Boiled water is flat. heheheheh.
Yes, there is tasty water. I only drink water after it's been boiled. Somehow water directly from the tap just tastes different!
no lah I don't. If I do, I'll probably end up boiling them before consumption too... :P
juphelia: that will be safe for the stomach for sure.
jomel: heh. good practice though!
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