Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
Bottled water is not always a luxury, and not always overpriced. We live in an old city on an old street in an old house - what does that mean? There are lead or lead-lined pipes involved in our water supply, and as we do like functional brains, we use bottled water for drinking and cooking. And no, we never pay $3 a bottle. The bottle I have beside me right now cost me about 14 cents, and I will recycle the bottle itself when I am done with it.
All of the water mains pipes in the Blue Mountains where I used to live are made of asbestos piping.
Everytime there is a bust, the local govt repair guys go to great lengths to conceal that fact from the locals.
There are very heavy fines if one ever re-uses asbestos products or fails to dispose of it correctly.
So it was bottled water for us.