Don't Lose Your Bottle...

Sustain, a food and farming lobby group, earlier this week released a report on the health and environmental benefits of tap water compared to bottled mineral water, and encouraging people to drink tap water instead of bottled water. Apparently only two government departments and one agency serve tap water (in jugs) at their meetings and events...

Their press release and report (only 20+ pages - very readable) can be downloaded here - 'Have You Bottled It - how drinking tap water can help save you and the planet'.

I've always thought it ludicrous that people choose to drink bottled water instead of tap water. Transport, packaging, waste...millions of people around the world struggle to survive simply because they don't have access to clean drinking water and here in the UK this resource is just taken for granted. When you think about it too, you pay more for bottled water than you do for petrol for your car...

So my next little project is to survey UWA departments as to whether they serve tap or bottled water - check back for responses in a few weeks time!