1. water bottles are fair game for anybody to use. i buy a 750 mL bottle of water daily to drink while at work. i am lucky if i ultimately drink even 375 mL of the original 750 mL.
2. pilfering water is not something that needs to be done covertly. many people come up to me, knowing that i always have a bottle of water around, and ask me for water. then they drink to their heart's content from my bottle and give it back to me.
3. but nobody puts their lips on the bottle. in north india, there is the concept of 'jhoota', which is best translated to mean contaminated. as long as you don't put your lips on the bottle (ie. you pour the water from the bottle into your mouth), all is well and nothing is contaminated. jhoota can also be applied to food, though i have yet to understand the rules of jhoota to food.
4. water bottles can be recycled and re-filled over and over. but after a bottle has been around for one week, it needs to be discarded because the plastic from the bottle (somehow) starts to enter the water at this time, making it dangerous to drink. go figure.
5. i buy bottled water because i drink neither tap water nor filtered water of suspect origin. there is a tank of filtered water just outside my office for drinking. i guess my water tastes better.
6. all of this happens at an institution of higher learning in india.
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