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Something nasty has happened to our water at home, and now it has a yucky plastic taste like it’s been laminated. Sometimes it comes out of the tap milky white, sometimes clear, and you never really know what your tea is going to taste like until you’ve made it, sipped it and poured it away down the sink. I don’t know how many tea bags we’ve used but not drunk.

So, I was interested to see mention of Belu in a single line footnote in the paper this morning. It’s apparently the first bottled water ever that doesn’t contribute to global warming (’Penguin approved’). The bottle is made from corn, like you’d get on a cob, and if you’re patient enough and your compost bin is levelled out in the right proportions, you can chuck it into your garden, see it decompose and then shovel it back into your vegetable patch. Pretty clever, eh?

The best thing, though, is that all of the profits will fund clean water projects around the world, with each bottle you buy providing someone less fortunate than yourself with clean water for a month.

I’m not sure I’d qualify as someone who could get funding to clean up his really quite rank water supply, so I’ll just have to buy Belu instead and feel good about the fact that not only will my tea taste better, but someone else might have safe, cholera-free supplies for the next 30 days.

^{Picture courtesy of the Belu press people.}

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