Blather, rinse, repeat

#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem (This is news to me, as I live on bottled water. “There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community,” Arnold asserts, “But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.” But until then?)

http://www.hometips.com/cs-protected/guides/waterfilters.html

I don't know how much these things are, but my parents installed one in their house a couple years back and it's been great. They'll fill a drinking-bottle to take to work every day instead of buying the cases of disposable bottles. Probably saves them money in the long run. Just make sure you use a bottle that's meant to be permanent, like Nalgene brand. (If you reuse the disposable kind too many times the chemicals in the plastic will start dissolving into your water.) And if you've got high levels of anything dangerous in your water supply, you can get a filter designed specifically to get rid of whatever that chemical is.

I drink tapwater, because it tastes okay where I live. ;)