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I read it in its entirety. It's quite long, but it has some fascinating vignettes into life in Egypt. Topics covered include garbage collection and recycling, politics, marriage and divorce, and the roles of males and females in Egypt.
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Meanwhile, in the actual developed world, nobody buys bottled water because the tap water is perfectly indistinguishable from the bottled stuff, which the stores only keep for tourists.
Unless you're American
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Unless you're American
This American cannot recall the last time he purchased or consumed bottled water. I do purchase and consume Diet Mountain Dew, which may amount to the same thing.
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My tap water (from a well) is highly sulfuric. The quality and taste of tap water varies greatly from location to location, "developed world" or not. There are all sorts of good reasons to buy bottled water.
If your tap water is unusable, you do not live in a civilized society with modern infrastructure.
Heavily mineralized water is not "unusable", the taste is just rather unpleasant.
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If your tap water is unusable, you do not live in a civilized society with modern infrastructure.
Yikes! Perhaps it's best to leave "civilization" out of this?
A civilization needs modern infrastructure. One of these is certainly tap water. If the tap water is not usable for one of its primary purpose – drinking – then I would say that the infrastructure is lacking, and, by inference, the civilization.
The same with road systems. If I can confidently know that I can drive safely on the roads, I live in a civilization with a modern, maintained, infrastructure. If, on the other hand, I must constantly look out for potholes, missing roads, etc. then I don’t.
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If your tap water is unusable, you do not live in a civilized society with modern infrastructure.
Save the juvenile snark for reddit. About 15% of Americans - almost 50M people just in the US - have private water sources like wells. Heavily mineralized water is not "unusable", the taste is just rather unpleasant.
wow.
"In 2009, during the worldwide epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, the Ministry of Agriculture decreed that all Egyptian pigs had to be killed. There was no evidence that pigs were spreading the disease, but the government went ahead and slaughtered as many as three hundred thousand animals. Some Egyptians believe that the decision was driven by a desire to appease Islamists, who had become outspoken critics of the regime, a…
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Yikes! Perhaps it's best to leave "civilization" out of this?
(Thanks for the correction; fixed.) A civilization needs modern infrastructure. One of these is certainly tap water. If the tap water is not usable for one of its primary purpose – drinking – then I would say that the infrastructure is lacking, and, by inference, the civilization. The same with road systems. If I can confidently know that I can drive safely on the roads, I live in a civilization with a modern, mainta…
For those debating about reading the article: I read it in its entirety. It's quite long, but it has some fascinating vignettes into life in Egypt. Topics covered include garbage collection and recycling, politics, marriage and divorce, and the roles of males and females in Egypt.