Above photo is displayed courtesy of Tropical Bamboo Hideaway, an eco-friendly resort on Kauai.

Take the Pledge
If you would like to show your support for tap water and avoid bottled water, take the think outside the bottle pledge sponsored by Corporate Accountability International.

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The following facts were posted on 3/26/08 by the Environmental Defense Fund.

In the U.S. alone, “we spend over $15 billion a year” on bottled water.

“More than a quarter of bottled water is just processed tap water, including Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola's Dasani.”

“Federal regulations for municipal water are far more stringent. Bottled water rules allow higher levels of many contaminants, with more lenient requirements for filtration, testing and reporting. See NRDC's bottled water report for details of contaminants by brand.”

“According to the Pacific Institute's Fact Sheet [PDF] manufacturing the 30+ billion plastic water bottles we bought in 2006:

• Required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil - enough to fuel more than one million vehicles for a year. (Note: This was erroneously reported by the New York Times as 1.5 million, and the error is repeated in many places.)

• Produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.

• Used three times the amount of water in the bottle.

And these numbers don't include transporting the bottles. Nearly 25 percent of bottled water crosses national borders before reaching consumers.

Adding in transportation, the energy used comes to over 50 million barrels of oil equivalent - enough to run 3 million cars for a year.”

“Tap water is delivered to homes and offices for $0.002 a gallon. Bottled water, which can cost as much per gallon as gasoline, is a thousand times more expensive."

If you would like to check the quality of your tapwater, you can do so by using the Environmental Working Group’s database.

If your tapwater isn’t measuring up, try a water filter.  Check comparisons of  water filter review sites at Consumer Search.