Mayor Nickels is asking the citizens of Seattle to stop buying bottled water. Per the Seattle Times ^[1]:

This morning, Nickels launched a bigger mission: To try to get Seattleites to stop buying bottled water.

With a five-foot-tall stack of water bottles and 56 oil barrels as a backdrop at Westlake Park, Nickels said buying bottled water costs 2,400 times as much as drinking tap water — and Seattle has some of the best city water in the world.

The stack of water bottles represented the number of empty bottles that end up in the city’s garbage every 37 minutes. The oil barrels represented the amount of oil consumed to make and transport the bottled water that Seattle consumes in 12 hours.

In my household, I drink tap water and my husband drinks Brita-filtered water. I carry a BPA-free bottle filled with tap water. Having grown up with well water, I find Seattle’s tap water to taste perfectly fine.

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