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RE: Some thoughts on ... water bottles
Deep thoughts and analysis as usual from you;)
Actually, you're right in many points but... I would rather have this bottle than not have. Don't know about Norway, but in Russia water is awful, and all schools never will set good filters, they cost 200$ here, I bought it for home. So they will propose bad water for kids. It's better to have a bottle..
Food at schools and kindergartends here is one more drama..I would never allow my kid eat it. And i even don't touch the question of raw diet or vegan one, no alternatives in most cities, only traditional food and of low quality.
The tap water in Piter is supposed to be potable, but nobody drinks it. My eldest son was going to school in Kolpino for some months, the parents was sharing the costs for a water dispenser in the class room. I don't remember what they used for drinking it. We've also installed a filter for drinking water. Actually I think it makes sense to do the filtering locally and only for the drinking water, in Norway quite some money is spent on making sure the water is potable, even if only a small percentage of the water is actually drunk - and even here we can't trust the water supply, there was a big scandal in one municipality this summer, some people probably died due to the bad water quality.
School food is another topic worth a post on its own. Here in Norway, the authorities cannot afford food in the kinder gardens and schools, hence we have to pack lunch boxes with sandwiches. I don't like it, it adds a lot of stress in the morning, (particularly on Mondays), and every day I end up throwing quite some leftovers. It would probably be a good idea to make one more lunch box for myself, but at work I trust the canteen to come up with something better and more healthy. However, both my eldest sons (one of them has experienced the food in the Russian kindergarten and school) say they prefer the lunch boxes.