Ben Schumin

A bottle of Cumberland Gap Mountain Spring Water, which is a brand produced by the local Coca-Cola bottler, purchased from a vending machine at the Knoxville Station Transit Center. According to the marketing material, the water is "fresh natural spring water from the source in the pristine Cumberland Gap Historic National Park" and "comes straight from the mountains of Cumberland Gap." I suspect that this language is overly flowery, and that it’s probably just filtered tap water, like most bottled water. The municipal water supply may very well come from the location that they claim, but that doesn’t negate that it’s still probably just tap water. I know that I shouldn’t consume bottled water for a whole host of very good reasons, but we were both feeling quite parched, and I did not have my reusable water bottle with me at the time, so… any port in a storm.

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