Attention!!! Tap Water kicks Bottled Water's A*S!

Tap water is tested more vigorously than bottled water:

Tap water is subjected to more rigorous testing and purity standards than bottled water.

One-third of the bottled water tested contained levels of contamination.

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, water suppliers are required to provide an annual report on the quality of your local water and to test tap water daily.

By comparison, the FDA examines bottled water only weekly, and consumers can’t get the agency’s results.
You can easily get the lowdown on your state’s drinking water quality at

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html

Energy costs to make bottled water:

Americans bought a total of 31.2 billion liters of water in 2006.

Producing the bottles for American consumption required more than 17 million barrels of oil, not including the energy for transportation.

Bottling the water produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.

It took 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water!


Pollution:

Once the bottled water is produced and consumed, the plastic bottle must be disposed of, which results in even more issues for our environment.

86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter.


Tap Water Costs less:

Bottled water costs about 500 times more than tap. If you’re into really fancy labels, up to 1,000 times more.