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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Water As Culture: Minneapolis Woman Starts ‘Water Bar’ To Get People To Think About What They Drink
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:22
	Publish Date:		2019-10-03 05:23:00
	Description:		Shanai Matteson poured three small cups of water for Mary Moxon last Friday, putting them on a wooden board, like a flight of beers at a craft brewery. “It’s very subtle, but water has different tastes, and it has to do with the mineral content of the water, the treatment of the water,” Matteson said. “Sometimes it has to do with the pipes or the container that the water comes in.” Matteson had just set up her table, called a popup Water Bar, at Project North, a music and sustainability festival in Rhinelander. Moxon tried the three water samples. She told Matteson one tasted muddy, one flat, and one pretty good. “By asking people to really taste the water, what we’re really doing is slowing them down and helping them think about it,” Matteson said. “They’re thinking about something they do every day in a new way.” Then, Matteson revealed which water was which. The water Moxon thought tasted muddy was Rhinelander city water, the flat water was bottled water, and the one Moxon liked
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