Bottled Water? No Thanks.

It’s about time that someone blew the cap off the water bottle (“The Big Gulp,” by David Lansing, Home Design Issue, May 20). I continue to be amazed that otherwise intelligent people will pay big-time for plain old bottled water.

Cheers! I lift my glass of home-filtered tap water to David Lansing, and to the editor who had the sense of humor to juxtapose his common-sense article with Michael Mascha’s ridiculous list of food/water combos (“The Bottle Brigade”) in the same issue. This is a joke, right?

Sandy Driscoll

Silver Lake

The only bottled water I buy is sparkling water. I wonder how Alice Waters and others who now serve filtered tap water will satisfy those of us who must have their fizz. Perhaps they can institute a BYOW policy with a “corking” fee.

Jeffrey S. Lee

Los Angeles

Schools have home-economics classes about overpriced goods, but then sell bottled water for a fortune. The schools should sell the plastic bottles at cost for a nickel and let the students fill them at the water fountain. Now that would be an important lesson!

Carl Olson

Woodland Hills