The Wet Job of Reviewing Water: A Profile on Waterreviewsbynick
Nick Taylor (@waterreviewsbynick) sips water from his water bottle. (Photo/Roman Noravian) BY: ROMAN NORAVIAN A cornerstone of social media is food reviews, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an account dedicated to reviewing drinking water at a college campus. This is exactly what Cal Poly first-year physics major Nick Taylor does on his Instagram account @waterreviewsbynick. He finds different water bottle filling stations at Cal Poly's various residential and academic buildings, chugs the water, and then rates it on a scale of one to 10. What inspired you to start the @waterreviewsbynick page? Nick Taylor: I think it was just I had an argument with a friend about how fast I could chug a liter of water. And I was like, you what would be funny? If I just started chugging a liter of water and then posted it to Instagram.
And initially the idea was I would not even give it a review. I would just go, that's water or that's not water. How do you decide which water filling ...