Smart Water

How many of us realize that possible carcinogens may leach out of the plastics in the bottled water, we so proudly drink so often ? And that, tap water is better and more tasty than the bottled water ? No wonder San Francisco, Salt Lake City and a host of other townships, have denounced and stopped the purchase of bottled water from city coffers.
Privatization and Capitalism are at extreme in making drinking water being sold by private corporations and not municipalities. When are we going to privatize sunshine,
like we did for healthcare ? In many Asian cities, like New Delhi, with polluted air, people flock to buy oxygen (better, pure air) to improve their lung function.
The recent admission, by both Pepsi and Coke, of filling their water-bottles, from city
and municipal tap water, and selling them to the public at seven thousand times profit,
advertising it to be better, cleaner and safer to drink than tap water seems very smart.
But this creates environmental and waste disposal problems of non-recyclable plastic bottles, in addition to utilizing millions of tons of foreign oil to make those bottles in the first place.
People in Keral, India first of all several years ago protested against this practice of selling bottled water by Pepsi, as well as Coke, established a smarter use of water resources for common man, and finally stopped this practice by Pepsi and Coke both.
Hence, Pepsi picks up Indra Nooyi of Indian descent, as its CEO, who may have connections back home and may successfully pull strings in favor of Pepsi, as well as
for Coke, in India as well as in China. Thus re-establishing the discredited Coke and Pepsi back in India. It also reminds us of another Indra (Indira Gandhi, the then Prime-Minister of India), who threw Coca-Cola out of India in late 1970s on the grounds of, misuse of water resources of the country (India), and filling its coffers with quick profits and transferring it to its headquarters in the US, without spending enough funds for social causes where it made the money (in India).
May be the decrease in the use of bottled water in USA and other affluent western countries will provide a lesson for India and China, the two most populous places on earth, to use water in its natural and smart form