Comedy on tap (water)

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I recently got an email about a free comedy show in Ann Arbor, Mich. Featuring Canadian stand-up comedian Derek Forgie.  Derek is not a typical comedian.  He’s an activist whose entire show is about the bottled water industry.

He prides himself on being raised on tap water (according to one of his YouTube videos), entertains a crowd while serving up a great lesson about water quality and why tap water is (much) better than anything bottled.  One of his four reasons: the price.

Forgie compares paying for bottled water to buying an Oh Henry candy bar for $10,000.  He asks if you would buy a dollar candy bar if someone were to charge you ten thousand times what it’s worth.

The Ann Arbor show was in collaboration with Food and Water Watch, a national consumer advocacy group.  I admit that after hearing Forgie, I definitely want to wean myself off of bottled water and invest in a filter for the tap.

Featured photo: fortinbras (Flickr)

5 thoughts on “Comedy on tap (water)

  1. I guess I’d be able to make a more informed deiiscon if I actually had a better understanding of what we’re worried about with tap water (if indeed we’re worried).Like, is the reasoning behind using special water a concern about microbes? (in which case boiling seems like it would fix the issue, right? do filters catch most microbes that we’d be worried about?) Or are we mainly concerned with traces of lead or minerals or other non-microbial…things? (in which case a filter would probably pick a lot of that up, but boiling woudn’t make a difference, right?)

  2. My son told me, he heard a comedian, say the French were sitting around, and said “Americans are stupid, we will sell them water!”

  3. I’ve always thought bottled water was the biggest scam going. I remember the first time I saw someone drinking from a bottle — they were standing next to a drinking fountain. I told my wife I used to have similar things when I was in Boy Scouts — we called them canteens!

    I installed a well in my barn and put an “ol’ timey” pitcher pump on it so I don’t have to worry about it freezing up (only the priming water). If I had enough gumption, I’d buy some empty bottles, print up some labels and sell the stuff as “organic water.” Then I’d have to think up all the ways to spend the money the yuppies would be paying me.

    I saw a bottle of water once with an expiration date stamp on the label. Hoo wah! The water has been in the ground for 10,000 years since the last glacier melted, we pump it out, into a plastic bottle and it will go bad by October. Go figure!

  4. Please give me the name of a good tap filter for both well water and city water with chlorine in it..

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