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We are making the switch this week from bottled water to filtered water. We go through water like, well, water, since it’s usually all we drink. We drink a lot of it between the 3 of us: 30 gallons a month or more. (Not counting what we drink at work.) So we broke down and bought a Brita dispenser (affiliate link).

We’d started looking into switching to filtered water before as a cost-saving measure, but never really got it done, because the cost savings probably won’t be HUGE. But what did convince us was thinking about the effect on the environment: the plants to package the water, the trucks to ship the water, the leftover plastic jugs & cardboard boxes, the extra weight in our car when we bring it home, etc.

I hope that this switch works out well. Our water tastes terrible: so much so that my usually exceedingly polite grandmother announced to us after taking a sip of tap water that our water tasted AWFUL. (We then pointed out the bottled water in the fridge.) About the only downside I can think of to making the switch is that our dog will have fewer boxes bound around the house with & shred.