Healthy Living and Travel Tips

Save Money on Healthy Water in the Airport

Do you hate having to pay up to $4 for a bottle for water in airports?  One solution is to simply take a large EMPTY bottle with you through security.  You can then fill up at a water fountain.  But a word of caution because the quality of that fountain water may not be the best so can you make airport water healthier? 

Here’s what I do:  to ensure I have the healthiest water possible, I also carry a small 15 ml bottle of lemon oil and a 1 oz. bottle of liquid minerals with me.  These items easily fit in the 1 qt. plastic bag allowed for liquids that are screened as you go through airport Security.  Young Living has a great Lemon Essential Oil for about $12 that consists of 68 percent dlimonene, a powerful antioxidant and Nano 2+ from Nano Health Solutions, Inc. contains 85 trace minerals, fulvic acid, 18 Amino Acids and 28 Enzymes for around $30. 

A couple of drops of lemon oil purifies the entire bottle plus adds a pleasant taste.  I also add about 10 drops of the liquid minerals to augment that fountain water.  Both the lemon oil and minerals will last for several months making the cost per water bottle just pennies.  The lemon oil and minerals will also help alkalize the fountain water which helps offset the acidic stress of travel.  For more information about alkaline water, please check out Dr. Robert O Young’s research.

Now if you are also concerned about how clean that fountain water is and the amount of particulates in that water, an additional solution is to filter it but this step will add more costs to your solution.  Instead of taking a large EMPTY bottle through security, try bringing an empty 22 ounce personal water filter bottle such as the Sport Berkey for about $30.  This unit lasts for ~640 refills of municipally treated water before the element needs to be replaced so the cost per refill is under 5 cents. 

There are several other water filter bottles on the market but that will be the subject of another post.  Super water bottles such as the Sport Berkey can filter out unpleasant tastes and odors, toxic chemicals, micro-biological pathogens, heavy metals and radiologicals that might be in the fountain water.

So now you have healthier, almost free, purified, alkalized and filtered water that you can drink in the airport as well as take onboard with you.  And this also saves having to wait for the attendant to make it up and down the aisle with everyone else’s drinks.

Please let me and other readers know what you have done to have healthier, inexpensive water in your airport travels.