It might seem odd, that we wail over the gallon price of gasoline. Here in my neighborhood, it was $3.39 a gallon for regular unleaded. Yikes.
Mackenzie Carpenter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has put together a great piece about the price gouging, not of gasoline, but bottled water. If you're spending $1.49 for a tiny 9-ounce bottle of Evian, that's $21a gallon! It's all put into perspective with gallon prices for Snapple, Pepto-Bismol, and Aquafina, which is just filtered...tap water.
The article is a good read as it points out that tap water, for the most part, is completely safe to drink. Adidtionally, most people already get enough water through the food and beverages they consume throughout the day. Perhaps the bottled water companies have created all this hype about dehydration.
The best part of the article, however, is a cost comparison of filtration systems (annualized) like Brita and Pur. It's not cheap, but certainly less expensive than buying single servings of bottled water.
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