It depends on the water.
The answer is 2.2 gallons for the water truck driving around town,
Even though I pay for it in 5 gallon jugs upfront in advance
The grocery store has plenty of brands of water on its shelves, from which – on occasion – I’ve been known to indulge in a high-end imported bottle (with carbonation).
A dollar would only get me 12 ounces of that stuff,
Better known as one cola can.
How about if I were a wine drinker?
At ten dollars per three-quarters liter bottle, a dollar would put me on the market for 5 tablespoons.
That’s barely a sip!
My tap is probably the best bet.Yes, it does seem free at the time, but we all know about the monthly bill to pay at the end. What if that weren’t the case, and it had a “pay-as-you-go” meter on it instead?
The answer there for the single dollar is 80 gallons!
That would give me a few quarts for drinking and the rest for washing.
Water, you know, does more than quench my thirst:
It’s also the universal solvent.
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(Carbonated water by the way is good for wine stains if you went the other route ...)
7 comments:
Interesting! And you're right - carbonated water works great on wine stains!
My water is "free" unless I use too much of it. I.E. it's paid out of my homeowner association dues and I never get an individual bill.
I wonder how common that is? Tis the first place I've ever lived with such an arrangement.
I'd guess it results in more water being wasted or used extravangantly by showering more than monthly, etc...
Yes, thanks for showing it so clearly.
But i like to rattle it up a bit. How many litres of water does it take to end up with a bottle of wine on our table? Really we might 'get' a lot of water there for little cost. But than, who pays for that??
Thanks for your comments.
Why is it whenever I wear a white shirt that somehow, at the special gala event, a cherry tomato somehow explodes on my shirt? Fortunately there always seems to be soda water on hand to save the day.
You're right about the regular washing ... that's a big consumptive use of water, not to mention overloading our sewage treatment plants with gray water.
That's a good question about the water used to grow wine grapes. Out in California I assume they are irrigated ...
We are all spoiled in this country--knowing that water is so easily available. And we all really do waste alot of the precious stuff!!!!
As aware as I try to be, I find myself running the water too much when I wash dishes or even brush my teeth. What would happen to us if water became scarce??????? We wouldn't know what to do, would we????
Betsy
I like it out of the tap - cheap, and as clean as most of the bottled stuff.
The rest of us pay a huge price for the State of California's existence. They wouldn't have an agriculture industry absent subsidies and irrigation projects the rest of us pay for. Illegal immigrants have to be factored in, as well.
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