Think bottled water is better?

"It's ironic that on some of the labels of the bottles, you see snow-capped mountains and glaciers when in fact the production of the bottle is contributing to global warming, which is melting those snowcaps and those glaciers," said Allen Hershkowitz at the Natural Resources Defense Council. From Ditching Bottled Water to Go Green at ABC News.

Producers of bottled water say that their products are purer and safer than tap water. Tap water is actually held to more stringent quality standards than bottled water. Some brands of bottled water are, in fact, tap water, and you pay a lot more for it. See A World of Reasons to Ditch Bottled Water.

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