tap water ^TM bottle is a well-designed, refillable glass bottle that sends out an important message. Each glass bottle is topped off with a flip cap that provides a superior seal that won’t get lost. This bottle is made out of glass so it is not unbreakable; you need be careful with it, just as you need to be careful with your health and the environment and this bottle can make a huge environmental difference! Available in 3 sizes!

bottles' messages: 

250 ml bottle: "They say the best things in life are free.  Really?  Water is right at the top of that list and these days a bottle of water costs more per litre than gasoline.  That’s about as far from free as it gets.  Tap water on the other hand is totally free.  Just turn on any old tap and you’ll get water that, in most cases, is better regulated and certainly cheaper than water that comes in a plastic bottle.  So maybe the best things in life are free."

500 ml bottle: "Life is full of choices: big and small. Sometimes a small choice like choosing to buy bottled water over drinking tap water, casts a big shadow. Making this small choice means you’re supporting an industry that ships billions of tiny bottles of water overseas, often taking it from people who lack access to clean drinking water and selling it to people with so much of it they flush it away. Hmmm. Small choice?"

1 litre bottle: "In the good old days, mineral water and spring water didn’t come in the "convenient" plastic bottles they do today. Bottles which, after a single use, find their way to our oceans breaking down into millions of pieces. These pieces are gobbled up by marine animals which are then eaten by other animals and so on until eventually those bottles end up in the food on our plates. So next time you pass up on tap water for that "healthier" option, do us all a favour, eat the bottle too."

why choose glass? Using glass to bottle beverages is one of the oldest and most trusted methods for packaging liquids. It is made from naturally occurring minerals and doesn’t carry health risks, related to toxic chemicals leaching from plastic and metal containers. While we need water, bottled water is an indulgence.  It is a luxury we afford ourselves that is wasteful of our water and resources used to ship this water around the world. When more than one out of six people in the world lack access to safe drinking water, we should be grateful that we have a choice and access to clean, safe drinking water since for nearly 1 billion people...there is no choice.  

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rethink! We need to rethink our approach to fresh, portable drinking water. Years of relentless marketing have encouraged us to adopt some very bad habits.  It’s time to start recognizing the problems caused by single-use plastic bottles and exercise some common sense.  The plastic water bottle has become a symbol of our disposable culture at its most thoughtless. With just a little effort, we can form better habits by incorporating a refillable water bottle into our daily routine. All single-use items have a huge environmental impact, so lets ditch this bad habit and save some money. Bottled water is ridiculously expensive. It’s between 240 and 10,000 times more costly than tap water.  And in some cases, what you’re buying is actually tap water.  

convenience. When you get right down to it, the biggest part of bottled water’s appeal is convenience. Its success has been about saving time and effort.  When you’re thirsty and on the go, the quickest fix is to buy a bottle of water at the nearest corner store.  But drinking bottled water is a choice, not a necessity.  Many of us now realize that bottled water is no healthier than tap water and portability is also not a factor.

re-use. Re-use is the most significant environmental impact we can make. Despite our best efforts, the vast majority of plastic water bottles are not recycled; in fact, it’s fewer than 20 percent. They find their way to beaches, roadsides and into landfills, where they can take up to one thousand years to break down.  Even if recycling were to approach 100 per cent, it’s not a perfect process. It requires energy and creates additional waste. 

carbon footprint. Bottled water creates a huge carbon footprint.  Production of bottled water is as much as 2,000 times more energy intensive than tap water production.  Every year 22 million tonnes of bottled water are criss-crossed from country to country. These journeys typically include boat, train and truck transport, racking up considerable water miles and carbon emissions. tap water ^TM bottles, on the other hand, are manufactured and shipped once and can be refilled an unlimited number of times.

water quality. It’s simply impossible to get chemical-free water from a plastic bottle. Even small amounts of bacteria at bottling can multiply to a much larger problem by the time the product gets to you. It’s unrealistic to think that water bottled in plastic containers, produced at a bottling factory, transported and stored at high temperatures for months at a time, can be purer than what a basic home water filtration system can deliver. And at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the world are simply filtered tap water. Tap water is constantly moving, staying fresh and never stagnating.  It is also filtered, disinfected, and is tested many times a day. In contrast, no filtration or disinfection requirements - and virtually no international quality standards - exist for bottled water. A water filtration system and the refillable tap water^TM bottle is a simple, clean solution.

natural resources. It’s a fact: bottled water wastes our natural resources. It can take up to five litres of water to make just one litre of bottled water. Water is not unlimited in supply; the more we waste, the less there will be for future generations. Bottling water also accounts for approximately 2.5 percent of the world’s oil consumption; about 1.5 million barrels of oil per year- that’s enough to power 100,000 cars for a year.  And this is not including the fossil fuels used to transporting the water across the world.  All this, when a safer, cheaper option flows from the taps we use every day.