Tap Water Versus Bottled Water

• Almost half of all bottled water is regular tap water
  
  
• Fact: bottled water is no safer than tap water.
  
  
• 40% of bottled water is filtered tap water sold back
  to consumers at hundreds of times the cost.
  
  
• Both tap water and bottled water are evaluated
  using similar standards. However, tap water
  is tested far more frequently and has more
  independent oversight by state and federal
  environmental authorities (EPA and DEP).
  
  
• Tap water system operators must be certified and our water is frequently
  tested by labs. Such testing is not required for water bottlers.
  
  
• Lacking adequate capacity to regulated bottled water, our government relies on bottled
  water corporations to police themselves, which in some cases has resulted in bottled
  water contamination that has lasted for weeks before the public was warned.
  
  
• Bottled water corporations spend tens of millions of dollars each year to convince
  us that their products are safer and more pure than tap water. It is just not true.