On 09/23/2019 06:38 AM, Gary wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I'm not saying we should
eliminate bottled water because there are times it can save lives after
a disaster or a water supply is contaminated.

In the old days (not that long ago), disaster areas got tankers
full of water delivered to areas and people there would bring
their own containers to fill up what they could carry home.

These days, cases of bottled water is delivered to the same
areas.


Bottled water does make the logistics easier. Anything can carry bottled
water versus finding suitable tankers. In the case of Puerto Rico it
makes it easier to mislay the entire shipment:

https://nypost.com/2018/09/12/massiv...r-after-maria/