This Volvic challenge (if you haven’t seen the adverts click here for the full glory of it) says that if you drink 1.5 litres of water per day for 14 days then you’ll feel a lot better. Now, I drink a lot of water already, generally in half pint glasses, so ‘better’ might not be an adequate description for someone who is already quite hydrated. More likely it will send me into yet another OCD frenzy of monitoring how many millilitres I’ve drunk in 24 hours (god yes, I did this when I was working nights and took a 1.5 litre bottle (refilled from tap) with me every night as well as whatever I drank during the day). Most people it seems don’t drink that much. Anyway, my point is not that.
My point is that drinking any clean water is going to be good for you. It doesn’t have to be Volvic, and it doesn’t have to come in polluting plastic bottles. And it doesn’t have to be delivered to your door because generally in the UK you already have drinking water delivered to your house, in the form of the untrendy tap. I’m not talking to my US friends here, because I have sympathy with you since I stayed in Orlando a few years ago and was made fully aware of what your tapwater tastes like.
So rather than creating vast amounts of empty plastic bottles for the landfill, increased traffic pollution from the delivery of said bottles, plus whatever environmental effect it has on the ice shelf that supplies this bottled water, why not get a glass of water from the tap? Why not carry a sports bottle around with you that you refill from the tap? It may not be the cool thing but your carbon footprint will be a lot less than if you’re buying Volvic or any other bottled water constantly.
I challenge you to save your money and the environment and take the tap water challenge. It doesn’t have to be 14 days, why not go crazy and change your lifestyle for good?
PS. Have just discovered TAP. Now that’s what I’m talkin’ bout!
Good idea. Who wants to lug heavy bottles back from the shop anyway?
But filtering the tap water first is even better. A filter jug gets rid of that chlorine-y smell and chemical taste, and there aren’t so many nasty chemicals to build up in the body.
agree! I probably should have said something about filtering so thanks for that. Though you only need a basic filter – don’t be fooled by the buy buy buy ads!
Blah! Couldn’t agree more. And paying a premium for bottled water in this country is verging on the obscene when you consider how scarce clean water is in other parts of the world. Not to mention pretty thick, if you are already paying water rates…
Mind you, I did one of these challenges a few years back (using tap water, natch) and had fab skin at the end of it, though I did spend an unholy amount of time on the lav….
Smug Volvic Bloke still doesn’t annoy me as much as adverts for plug-in air fresheners with motion sensors – why waste all that technology on something that smells like harsh chemical approximations of flowers when you could just open a friggin window?
Before you take the challenge it might be in your best interest to test out the tap water you have. You don’ t want to be drinking contaminated water. There are at home kits to do it yourself.
Eek, yes indeed especially considering all the potential contaminants listed on your website. I am so glad I live in Wales where water is abundant. Not always glad when it rains, mind. But yes you have to be sure that your tap water is safe, and also the chlorine taste is not nice.