I was in the toilet of the Deutsche Oper, courtesy of the German Foreign Ministry - well, I know that you shouldn't start a story like this. It raises a lot of questions like what I was doing in a Deutsche Oper toilet and why the German Foreign Ministry had sent me there and what it all has to do with not drinking bottled water.
However, readers are cruel and they always have double standards. No one asked or will ask Kafka how in the world Gregor Samsa was transformed into an insect, for Kafka was a genius and great writer, but they will surely be eager to ask an unknown blogger what he was doing in a Deutsche Oper toilet.
Anyway, I went to the toilet during intermission - I was at Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss and the German Foreign Ministry was generous enough to pay for my ticket - and then, a guy entered the toilet, opened a tap, started to fill his drinking bottle with tap water and left. The canteen was less than 50 meters away if he wanted to buy a new bottle of water.
I see no point to accent how clean the tap water was in that toilet - it was more clean than in kitchens in the most parts of the world - it didn't surprise me. However, I was positively surprised to see how environmentally and economically responsible were the people in Germany - this was not surely the only incident I placed my judgment upon.
Just a few days before that encounter, in one session about new media, I saw a US-made video that truly shocked me. That video together with above-mentioned episode in the Deutsche Oper toilet - they changed something significant about my behaviour: I've stopped drinking bottled water unless I can't otherwise.
Another step to become more environmentally responsible. Below is the video you can't afford to miss it.
However, readers are cruel and they always have double standards. No one asked or will ask Kafka how in the world Gregor Samsa was transformed into an insect, for Kafka was a genius and great writer, but they will surely be eager to ask an unknown blogger what he was doing in a Deutsche Oper toilet.
Anyway, I went to the toilet during intermission - I was at Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss and the German Foreign Ministry was generous enough to pay for my ticket - and then, a guy entered the toilet, opened a tap, started to fill his drinking bottle with tap water and left. The canteen was less than 50 meters away if he wanted to buy a new bottle of water.
I see no point to accent how clean the tap water was in that toilet - it was more clean than in kitchens in the most parts of the world - it didn't surprise me. However, I was positively surprised to see how environmentally and economically responsible were the people in Germany - this was not surely the only incident I placed my judgment upon.
Just a few days before that encounter, in one session about new media, I saw a US-made video that truly shocked me. That video together with above-mentioned episode in the Deutsche Oper toilet - they changed something significant about my behaviour: I've stopped drinking bottled water unless I can't otherwise.
Another step to become more environmentally responsible. Below is the video you can't afford to miss it.
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