Summary: If you’re looking for a Drinking Water Fountain, WeTap has devloped a nice App geared towards identifying, and mapping public drinking fountains.
There’s no doubt that drinking water is essential to our survival. Anyway, we all know that there’s a lot of debate about whether drinking tap water is better than drinking bottle water.
Many people say they buy bottled waters because they taste better. But is it true?
According to thenorthwindonline:
“47 percent of all bottled water comes from tap water resources. So, consumers are paying hundreds more for the same product, all so that it can come in a prepackaged bottle instead of an ordinary cup“
As already mentioned by Rd.com article a few years ago:
“Yes, some bottled water comes from sparkling springs and other pristine sources. But more than 25 percent of it comes from a municipal supply. The water is treated, purified and sold to us, often at a thousandfold increase in price. Most people are surprised to learn that they’re drinking glorified tap water, but bottlers aren’t required to list the source on the label.“
If once it was very easy to find water fountains in most public places, today, now it seems like this is no longer as before. Anyway, there are some exceptions. E.g. the Australian city of Bundanoon became the first city in the world to completely ban bottled water from its stores’ shelves, installing water fountains around the city instead.
When you live in a city with a lot of outdoor water fountains installed, or if you travel often and spend on bottle of water, if you want to save some money by drinking in a public fountain, did you know that exist a free Android app that help you locate the nearest drinking water fountain.
WeTap users can quickly add or modify information about public drinking water fountains right from their smartphones, uploading the location of fountains, their condition, the quality of water, and even adding a comment or a photo.
Dr. Peter Gleick, president of Pacific Institute and author of “Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water“ says:
“One of the reasons for the explosive growth in the sales of bottled water is the disappearance of public drinking water fountains. We came up with WeTap because we need our public water fountains to be maintained, cleaned, and made even more widely available, and we need to be vocal in fighting the trend to eliminate public water fountains.“
Now you can save money, as save earth as well, by reducing single use plastic.
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