This blogging is making me thirsty.

Tap water in the City is the best tap water anywhere.

Sometimes I hate that I am turning into one of those people who call NYC "the City" and speak as though it's the center of the universe. But you would be hard pressed to find a place with better tap water.

In an effort to be more "green," I try to avoid buying water in plastic bottles (plus the idea is pretty ridiculous if you think about it), but as a result, I am left with the best that my immediate locale has to offer, which when traveling is invariably worse than what I can get out of my bathroom sink.

A little quick research reveals that the majority of drinking water for the five boroughs comes from the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds in upstate NY.* So even though we live in one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world, we are essentially drinking from mountain streams.

Just another reason to love living at the center of the universe!



*check out http://nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate08.pdf for more info on NYC drinking water supply and quality