Until the federal Food and Drug Administration cracks down on water bottlers, use EWG’s What’s in My Bottled Water guide to find brands with high scores for disclosing full water source, treatment and quality and that use advanced treatment methods to remove a broad range of pollutants.

• Filtered tap water - It saves money, it's purer than tap water, and it helps solve the global glut of plastic bottles.

• Stronger federal standards for bottled water to enforce the consumer's right to know all about bottled water — where it comes from, what’s been done to it, if anything, and what trace pollutants lurk inside.

Water - Use It Wisely - Daily Tips

Of all the water on the earth, humans can use only about three percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes. Water is precious. Use it wisely. Did you know that it takes more water to manufacture a plastic bottle for bottled water than it does to fill it?

Did you know that even a small countertop water filter like the Multipure Aquadome can supply higher quality and better tasting water than most bottled water and at a cost as low as 8¢ per gallon? And, that same small filter can prevent the addition of 12,000 plastic water bottles to the plastic crisis that is escalating each and every day in our  environment, much of it due to our media-created addiction to bottled water!