Water sustains all life. We drink it, we bathe in it, we grow our food with it. We can’t live without it. Yet today, water is being polluted, depleted and diverted at a rapid rate. One in 6 people — more than 1 billion — lack access to clean water. And that number will increase if we do not act now.

Take Back The Tap: Protect America's Water

glass of water 2 Consumers waste billions of dollars a year on billions of gallons of bottled water in large part because advertising spin has led them to believe that water in a bottle is safer or better than tap water even though as much as 40 percent of bottled water came from the tap in the first place.

Truth is, tap water generally is just as safe, clean, and healthful as bottled water, and in many cases more so. In fact, the federal government requires far more rigorous and frequent safety testing and monitoring of municipal drinking water.

Read on to learn the truth about bottled water.

Encourage your university campus, city government, or community group to break the bottled water habit. Sign the Take Back the Tap pledge.

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Costly Returns Cover Thumnail

Although public utilities provide water to about 86 percent of people on community water systems, a private sector push is on to change this. The corporate water barons are salivating at the prospect of profiting from the drinking water and wastewater infrastructure crisis facing the United States.
Read more about Costly Returns: How Corporations Could Profit From Inflating the Already High Cost of Repairing the Nation’s Crumbling Water and Sewer Infrastructure

Video Contest Winner Selected

We challenged college students from around the U.S. to declare their love for tap water –– and get it on film. After two months and over one hundred and forty entries, the I “Heart” Tap Water national video contest has a final winner.

Stop the Push for Water Privatization in California

water bottles As California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promotes a pro–privatization agenda through several recent pieces of legislation, Californians have the opportunity demand better monitoring of current water withdrawals.

Food & Water Watch is sponsoring Assembly Bill 2275 which would require bottled water companies to disclose the amount of water bottled at every facility in California. Ask your representative to support this legislation.

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Costly Returns — The report, Costly Returns: How Corporations Could ...
Clear Waters — When a resource is as basic as clean water, it can ...
The Case for a Clean Water Trust Fund — Clean, healthy, affordable water is something ever ...
Take Back the Tap — Report: "Take Back the Tap: Why Choosing Tap Water ...
Challenging Corporate Investor Rule — Corporations reap more protection and greater powe ...

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