Next time you plan a meeting at the office or have a get-together at home consider serving tap water and brag about it. Also, don't accept bottled water if it is offered at another person's house or business function. Ask for tap water instead. Tap water costs very little to deliver since the infrastructure is already in place. Get a reusable bottle and keep it in the fridge or cupboard to take when you head out for birding or to the beach.
If you're worried about the safety of your tap water, contact your local municipality. Each year they are required to publish the results of their regular testing. (See below for local links). If necessary, there are a number of excellent filtering systems you can get for your tap or you can purchase a pitcher for the refrigerator that filters the water as you pour it in. Just watch out for those reverse osmosis systems. They waste a lot of water.
- Sarasota County
- More info on bottled water from the Natural Resources Defense Council
Hello. We are putting together a list of wiser water usage tips on our website ConnectTheDrops.org. We agree with what you've posted about bottled water and would like to include this on our site with a link to your blog. Credit to the Sarasota Audubon Society of course! Thank you for your great work, Suzanne Dameron, Co-Chair, SEE Water committee for wiser water usage in Sarasota County
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