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November 19, 2007
Learn about local tap water
Challenge Yourself for: 7 days
Do you drink bottled water because you assume it’s better than tap water? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, if you live in the United States bottled water is not necessarily safer than tap water. In fact, some bottled water comes from municipal water sources; it’s tap water repackaged.
This week, make an effort to learn about your local tap water. If you find out it’s safe, make the switch to tap to reduce water bottle waste in landfills. Save your money – and, better yet, help save the planet – by drinking tap water instead of bottled.
(We’ve given you 7 days for this Challenge. When you log your progress, you only need to log as many – or as few – days as are applicable.)
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The water in my area has an unacceptable iron level, according to the EPA. Additionally, it has been deemed non-potable for farm labor. The pesticides the local farmers use have developers frustrated as parcel after parcel fails the perc and bore testing.
I use bottled water, but have it delivered for my cooler.
I finally live in a dorm where the water is safe to drink (free of random white flakes)! I love tap water!
I’m in graduate school and I study neuroendocrinology and reproductive physiology with a concentration on estrogen receptor signaling. I prefer to drink tap water over bottled water because some of the plastics used in making the bottles can leach out estrogenic compounds into your water and after you throw away the bottle, these chemicals enter the environment, make their way into rivers and inhibit the reproduction of some types of fish.
my water comes from the river… ew.. but it is a cleaner part ofthe river than where I used to live furthur north,but still, ew. I read up on the water treatments though and it tasets just fine to me :)
I have found out just today that the water where I live does not meet state standards, so I am going to stick with the bottled water