Bottled water

Buying bottled water seems to me an extravagant and inefficient practice when (at least in soft water areas like Edinburgh) perfectly drinkable water is available from the taps.  But I do sometimes want to have a bottle of water with me, particularly if I'm not going to be near a tap.  So I fill up a bottle with tap water and take that.  If I want it colder than the ambient temperature, I store it in the fridge - or even the freezer - until I need it.

Where do I get the bottle from, if I don't buy bottled water?  Well, I do sometimes buy bottled water - because I haven't remembered, or it hasn't been convenient, to bring out a bottle of tap water.  Then (if it is convenient) I keep the bottle for use on other occasions.

All this seems like obvious common sense, but the size of the market for bottled water suggests that many people haven't seen it yet, so I'm recording it here in the hope that it may help some of my readers.

To ensure that I always have some when I want it, I should keep a few bottles of water in my fridge, and a few in my freezer, all the time.  The bottles in the freezer will have the added benefit of helping to keep my frozen food cold if the freezer breaks down or there is a power cut.  There is a cost, each time I put a bottle in, because it takes some power to cool it from room temperature, but the cost seems small relative to the benefit.

Of course I'm talking about plastic bottles here, not glass ones, which might be at risk of breaking when frozen.

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