I've carried a water bottle for years - since before bottled water became fashionable - but then I don't drink tea or coffee & like to have a drink with me. If every time I wanted/needed a drink I had to go into a shop & buy juice or something else I'd go broke! Over the years I have bought bottled water but that was when I left my bottle at home.

Our local folk festivals are trying to go waste free (well, reduce waste as much as possible) by supplying reusable cups & bottles, & water filling places.

Last week at the National Folk Festival we even had had a commercial operator selling alkaline water - science is out on it's benefits, but some folks have money to spend & someone has to make a dollar ...

Next to the alkaline water filling place was a free water filling place, but there they were, rich?/foolish? folk paying something like $35 for the bottle & $5 per day for unlimited filling of said bottle while the rest of us just refilled whatever bottle or cup we had at whatever tap or filling place we found!

sandra