Bottled water is an unsustainable, wasteful and costly way of distributing drinking water. In addition it is, IMHO, a cynical money making effort that has been surprizingly widely successful at selling people something that should be nearly free. And in Mpls on average the quality of tap water is better than bottled water. There are numerous web sites that give details on this. Think Outside Bottle story-of-bottled-water Challenge Corporate Control of Water Nestle chairman says water is not a human right Stop using bottled water in Minneapolis (This site is gone. This link is to an archived copy but unfortunately it did not archive very well.)
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