Everyone has to have their bottled water now. If you let someone know you are drinking water from the tap, they look at you like you're crazy or like you've been living under a rock for the past decade. Why does the majority of consumers have the conception that bottled water is so much better for you than tap water. How did we get here? How do we get back to tap? 
                                                                  
  Many brands of bottled water only contain filtered tap water. Consumers are still paying for filtered tap water which 90% of the cost is in the bottle, lid and label. Plastic bottles are extremely harmful to our environment. Even though there is a growing number of companies using recycled plastic bottles to manufacture their products, its still not enough to keep up with the number we are consuming. It requires non-renewable resources to create plastic bottles and 75% of them still end up in landfills.

  You can filter your own water and purchase reusable containers to transport it to work or other activities away from home. Camelbak offers many different types of bottles all of which are BPA-Free. Another brand of well made water bottles worth considering is Sigg. Filtering your own tap water is easy and affordable. Many water filtering systems can attach right to your faucet. You can get started with the Brita faucet filter system and electronic filter-change indicator.

  If everyone living in NYC gave up purchasing bottled water for one year we could save 1.328 billion plastic bottles from ending up in landfills. Its extremely obvious that this is a small lifestyle change that could have an enormous impact on our environment. Please start reducing the number of plastic bottles you use, it can really make a difference.