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This morning [4/27] the Mount Washington Green Club held a water-tasting. We
compared the tastes of three bottled waters (Evian, Fiji, and Deer Park)
with Mount Washington tap water in two forms (straight from the tap, run
through a filter). Each water was labeled only with a letter, so we did
not know which water we were tasting until scores were given and the
comparison was completed. Here are the results (high scores represent
the best taste):

Mt. Washington Tap (filtered)	39
Deer Park	30
Fiji	29
Evian	28
Mt. Washington Tap	17

The Mt. Washington tap water that was run through a water pitcher with a
carbon filter received the highest score. Deer Park water, which is
locally bottled, received a score slightly above that off Evian and
Fiji, which are bottled in very distant locations. Unfiltered Mt.
Washington tap water came in last.

So for the best tasting water (and probably the healthiest), we are
recommending running our local tap water through a carbon filter. For
our test, we used a Pur water pitcher like the one pictured here.
They seem to run from about $10 to $30 and the filters have to be
changed periodically.

We also want to remind everyone that besides being expensive (Fiji water
is usually over $2.00 a quart), bottled water creates a trash problem.
In the recent cleanup of Western Run, a large percentage of the trash
taken from the stream area was empty plastic water bottles.
Transporting water bottled in distant locations like the island of Fiji
or Evian, France also seems like a terrible use of resources and
probably contributes to global warming.

So we would like to encourage everyone to choose filtered tap water over
bottled water, and locally bottled water over water bottled at distant
locations. Thanks!

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