Is tap water better than bottled water?
In Fiji a test was run to see if tap water was better than bottled water. The results were, the Fiji bottled water had less quality than the tap water. Bottled water costs more too.

What do the public prefer bottled water of tap water?
In a test across the country people chose tap water over bottled water. Well why is this? If a company wants to grow they have to sell more items, they have tried to make people scared into thinking tap water was bad for you. And that’s how bottled water was promoted. Not only that they also tried to make the water look like it was fresh and better quality by putting rivers, trees, and animals in the packaging.

Where dose bottled water come from?
Believe it or not a 3rd of bottled water comes from taps! Making plastic bottles is equivalent to fuelling 1 million cars.

What happens to the bottles when we have finished with them?
80% of them go to landfills and stay there for 100s of years. Some bottles get sent to India where they are suppose to be recycled but they are down recycled which means they are made into lower quality products. The solution to this is to invest in public water. All this money could be spent on improving our water service.

FACTS ABOUT BOTTLED WATER
Sometimes bottled water is less regulated. Bottled water costs 2000 times more than tap water. People in the U.S.A buy half a billion bottles of water a week. That is enough to circle the globe more than 5 times.