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Tap water is the new bottled water

Posted on Nov 30th 2007 9:35PM by Martha Edwards

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Alternative & Green Health, Nutrition & Supplements

What's your water -- tap, filtered or bottled? I've been a long-time tap drinker -- the tap water in my area is perfectly fine and I hate the waste that bottle water generates. But believe me when I say that I am one of the few -- in fact, I think I might be the only person I know who drinks tap water.

But that all could change -- according to this article, people in Britain are starting to trade in bottled water for tap water, both because of the waste issue and because it's less expensive. And I'd say it's about time -- the amount of damage that those little plastic water bottles do to the environment is astounding.

If you can't stomach the tap water, consider getting a filter and buy a bunch of those reusable water bottles for one-the-go hydration.

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DeSouza 1-30-2008 @ 7:31PM

I drank tap water until I started reading crime reports of dead bodies being found in the aguaduct. Then, I read a depressing article on ALS, the Lou Gerig's disease making a correlation between the metal that sloughs off old pipes and is consumed through drinking water. I would love a decent-priced filtration system for my home so I can stop making a weekly pilgrimage to the recycling center to dispose of all these plastic bottles!

russ poirier 2-06-2008 @ 4:31PM

what is everyone a zero drinking bottled water what do you think you re drinking oil hard plastic is the worst never drink it not until they start putting water back in glass

Guin White 11-30-2007 @ 10:36PM

I've drunk tap my whole life. I've never been into filtered or bottled water.

Jessica 12-01-2007 @ 1:51AM

You know the bottles can be recycled. I've always recycled my water bottles and other plastics as well like detergent bottles or old food containers and I end up recycling more of thos types of things then water bottles.

Eric Yaverbaum 12-01-2007 @ 10:04PM

Tappening is a joint venture between two NYC marketing agencies to educate and encourage the general public to decrease the consumption of the 28 billion bottles of 'tap water' we purchase a year. It's the same as the water that comes out of your faucet.

You may or may not be aware that many of the largest bottled water companies in the world sell us tap water at $1.50 a bottle while using 17 million barrels of oil (in 2006). To put that into a little perspective, that is enough fuel for more than 1 millions cars in the U.S. for a year and generates over 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. While we applaud the industries efforts to recycle, it is a fact that only 20% of these bottles are. The rest end up in the waste stream costing cities over $70 million dollars a year in cleanup and landfill costs.

The real problem is all the fossil fuels that have to be burned to make the plastic, fill the bottles, extract, filter, and purify the water, maintain the factories and warehouses, ship the millions of bottles, keep them cool at retail, and then process the waste — all for nothing, because the stuff in the bottle is no better than the stuff that comes right out of the tap. What bottled water has is a brand, and that's what we aim to create for tap water, which happens to be in every way a much better product.

Our environment needs all the help it can get and this one is simple, yet could have such a large impact.

We are very pleased with the rapid acceptance we have found in the marketplace to hear our message. We're thrilled to have the attention of Coca Cola (although they may not be), The Environmental Protection Agency, The Federal Drug Administration, the blogosphere and the press. Naturally we are thrilled to have over a half a million page views at our site (www.tappening.com) in under two weeks.

Elanor 12-01-2007 @ 10:04PM

I have also drunk tapwater my whole life. Unless im on the roadand need a drink. It's a waste of money and bottles!!!!

Don 12-07-2007 @ 4:24PM

I drink tap water, always have for my 63 years . The water quality here in Boston is excellent.....no clorine taste. I just read about Aquifina water being tap water that is run through a filtering process...I do the same thing here at home with my fridge water tap, and if I need bottlee water for ouside use, I fill a couple of their bottles with our filtered tap water and the cost is virtually nothing. I given bottles of my tap water to people that drink bottled water, and they never knew the difference.