N Y Times: In Praise of Tap Water

Here;'s a great story worth reading in full:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/opinion/01wed2.html

It's an editorial page piece from August 1, 2007, opening paragraph says it straight:

On the streets of New York or Denver or San Mateo this summer, it seems the telltale cap of a water bottle is sticking out of every other satchel. Americans are increasingly thirsty for what is billed as the healthiest, and often most expensive, water on the grocery shelf. But this country has some of the best public water supplies in the world. Instead of consuming four billion gallons of water a year in individual-sized bottles, we need to start thinking about what all those bottles are doing to the planet’s health.