It is said that the Egyptian politician, Sa'ad Zaghloul, was on his deathbed, looked at his wife, and said to her: “Pull the blanket tight, Safiya,” or “Cover me, Safiya... it’s no use.” He was referring to the political situation in Egypt, which had reached the brink of collapse due to the tricks of politicians and parties, and his inability to reach an agreement with them.
The proverb is now said when things reach a dead end, and there is no solution or way out, so we say: ‘Cover me, Safiya... it’s no use’!
It is said that you can tell the quality of water in plastic or glass bottles by the color of their caps. Blue caps mean the contents are “spring water,” black caps mean the water is alkaline, green caps indicate flavored or sparkling water, and white caps mean treated water. What “treated” means is unknown!
Water bottles have become a part of many people’s lives, as it is important to drink water constantly to keep the body hydrated, especially in hot areas.
Regardless of how thirsty we feel, as we age, our need for water increases, and the brain’s signals of thirst decrease, and we often do not notice our dehydration, and we are completely exhausted.
So some people see or believe that it is important to know the quality of the water that we drink in such large quantities from different sources.
The truth is that what is rumored about colors is just an illusion. Most of the major water bottling companies do not care about the above classification, the source of which is not known at all. There is no basis for saying that the black color cover is for alkaline water, the blue for fresh water, the white for treated water, the green for fresh water, etc.
In the United States, two agencies regulate bottled water: the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. However, neither has any rules or regulations about what color-coded caps mean.
Some brands also use caps that comply with the so-called “rules,” such as the black caps on Essentia Alkaline Water. But many brands don’t care about the rules of the so-called coding system. Fiji Water exclusively uses a blue cap, and it comes from a spring, while Crystal Geyser also comes from a spring, but it uses white caps.
Furthermore, the so-called cap system does not take into account the caps, which have recently become popular in European countries, which have a folding feature, so that they remain attached to the end of their opening, making them difficult to detach and throw away.
These come in different colors than the standard caps, and we hope that their use will become widespread in Kuwait to help reduce plastic pollution.
Some bottled water companies also have their own color-coding systems to mark the differences in their products. San Benedetto, an Italian water company, uses a blue cap for its sparkling water and a red cap for its still water, and so on with other companies.
To maintain a clean environment, it is better not to buy water bottles, but to buy a bottle of mineral water, carry it with you in the car and office, and fill it from any clean source, instead of consuming water from plastic bottles and polluting the environment.
The bottle can be filled with filtered or purified water at home or from any clean source, outside, and it will most likely not be of lower quality than the water in plastic bottles, which are originally filled from taps… And cover me, Safiya!
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