I discovered this website through Parents With Style. Being an avid filtered tap water drinker I immediately was curious. Besides they have a really cute water bottle they sell (see left). So I clicked to browse and learn more.
This is the tip of the iceburg on some of the facts I learned:
Tap water facts:
- Why would you want to pay more for a product whose quality is worse than the water that flows from the faucet in your home?
- More than 99.9 percent of Americans live in homes where unlimited amounts of fresh, treated water is available…so turn on the tap!
- Tap water contains chlorination which kills bacteria
- Water systems that provide tap water have to test for water pathogens that can cause intestinal problems, bottled water companies don�t do this
- City tap water can have no confirmed E.coli or fecal coliform bacteria. FDA bottled water rules include no such prohibition (a certain amount of any type of coliform bacteria is allowed in bottled water)
- City tap water, from surface water, must be filtered and disinfected. In contrast, there are no federal filtration or disinfection requirements for bottled water.
TO READ MORE TAP WATER FACTS CLICK >HERE<….
Bottled water facts:
- Bottled water uses energy and resources to create packaging for something that runs cheaply and cleanly from the faucet in your own home
- Not only is it expensive and energy demanding to make bottles, but then to ship the bottled water costs more money and isn’t eco-friendly
- 96% of bottled water is sold in single-size polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles, which end up in city trash cans rather than recycling bins. The national recycling rate for all PET bottles, including soda bottles, is 23.1 percent
- About 4 billion PET bottles end up in the waste stream, costing cities around 70 million dollars a year in cleanup and landfill costs
- Bottled water costs around as much as a bottle of soda or juice, which obviously requires additional ingredients and processing, yet people pay for it
TO READ MORE BOTTLED WATER FACTS CLICK >HERE<.
Honestly, before I didn’t drink tap because of all the wasted plastic water bottles filling our landfill. To me it tasted just as good in our town, it was cheaper, it was less of a hassle and was more convenient. Tappening has given me more resolve to be a tap water drinker. And I think I may just order that cute green bottle too!
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