We already did the first part of that. About a month ago, the kids and I bought a few different brands of bottled water, drew some Houston out of the tap, and conducted an informal blind taste test. The Houston stuff did all right. One of the kids even put it in first place. Hiring a consultant never even crossed our unofficial minds.
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Dan Jones, one of the aforementioned city officials, said our municipal supply is about 40 percent from an aquifer about 1,000 feet under us, and about 60 percent from lakes Houston, Conroe and Livingston. He said it is the well water that will be bottled. Which is just as well. A picture of a skier being towed across a lake, or a fish jumping out of it, might look real pretty but probably wouldn't make you want to drink it. OK, we don't actually use windmills to pull the stuff to the surface.