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How To Have Win-Win

With Every Glass Of Water You Drink

By Harold Katz, R.Ph. supply. Plants, Boca Raton. This facility delivers potable water to us in
fish, animals, and the most efficient manner: right to our faucet! There have
The large volume of plastic humans ingest been studies published comparing bottled water to faucet
water bottles that is seen them. Recycling, water in which the recipient could not tell the difference
leaving our food stores is of course is an between two samples. This is an evaluation which Boca
staggering to behold. We see effort to avert Pointers can conduct on their own. Fill a glass with faucet
the quantities locally, but this looming water and pour into a similar glass a bottled water sample.
just imagine the total volume disaster; Place both in the fridge to cool cold and ask someone to
nationally. Add to that the however, only an estimated 9% of these bottles are try each sample and identify them.
number of soft-drink bottles recycled nationally. (Boca Pointe does a better job than We know that bottled water must undergo the same
whose contents are consumed that; and Edgewater does even better at salvaging these FDA (Food and Drug Administration) tests as our faucet
daily, and we have a description of a growing problem that plastics for other uses.) There is an additional solution: product. We also know that most bottled water comes
is just now being recognized. We are being overwhelmed Drink the product offered by the local water company. from a faucet somewhere. (There are exceptions. Some
with plastics that don’t go away! It takes years for these Here in Boca Pointe, we are serviced by the Palm bottled water comes from mineral wells. Others are reverse
bottles to deteriorate in municipal refuse piles, and when Beach Water Facility which pumps their water from the filtered. These are marked as such and boast of special
they do, they form microplastics which enter our food Biscayne Aquifer, which runs 150 feet underground under virtues.) We also know that the companies that sell bottled
water advertise and demonstrate that by adding substances
to faucet water they show you a cloudy product from the
Board Of Directors faucet sample. This writer has no opinion on this magic-
type demonstration, except to repeat that faucet water
May 2021 – May 2023 Officers/Executive Committee passes all the FDA tests and is continually monitored by
the Palm Beach County Water Facility to maintain that
level of purity.
Chairman and President Barry J. Haberman District 5 Howard Weinstein (El Dorado) We might find that the difference between a year’s
Vice Chair Steve Retzer Esplanada, Caravelle, Palomar, La Corniche, purchase of the plastic bottle variety and the faucet
Secretary Steve King and El Dorado product represents a surprising amount of money, because
Treasurer Harvey Kaplan District 6 Connie Murray (Villa Flora)
Villa Flora, Montego Bay, Villa Del Sol, and Palladium the amount of faucet water for oral consumption doesn’t
District Directors District 7 Alan Markoff (The Plum) increase your water bill at all.
District 1 Mary Ann Frazier (Palms) The Plum/Cortina, Villa Sonrisa and Pointe 100 For faucet water: $1.50/1,000 gallons
Encantada, Valencia and The Palms District 8 Robert Cornell (Costa Brava) Bottle water: $5,000/1,000 gallons
District 2 Steve King (Imperial Royale) Costa Del Sol and Costa Brava There are, of course, some people who must drink
Promenade, Imperial Royale, Imperial, Regency District 9 Robin Gliboff (Edgewater) mineral water, or a multi-filtered product for health
and Panaché Edgewater Pointe Estates and Stratford Court reasons. These products are available, but even these folks
District 3 Harvey Kaplan (Meridiana) do not need to traffic in plastic bottled water. Where else
La Mirada and Meridiana At Large Directors can you perform a recycling plus and generate a yearly
District 4 Michael Ehrentreu (El Viento) savings of 50 “Benjamins” by merely turning on the
El Viento, La Paz, and Southwinds Through 2023 Through 2023
Chandra Stewart-Keith (Panaché) Barry J. Haberman (Encantada) faucet? That’s a win-win in any language. Let’s all drink
Bob Greenstein (Lakes of La Paz) Marvin Lazarowitz (Villa Del Sol) to that!
Steve Retzer (La Mirada) Carsten Bethge (Valencia)
Harold Katz R.Ph., Edgewater Estates. 

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