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.
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