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Why

So why drink tap water?

Waste

The number of plastic water bottles sent to UK landfill each year would fill Wembley stadium twice over, & take 450 yrs to breakdown!

Taste

Blind taste tests have shown that people can’t actually tell the difference between bottled & tap water, and tap is often preferred.

Money

Costing just 0.22p a litre – tap water is much cheaper than herebuying bottled.

Environment

Bottled water has 30 times the carbon footprint of tap water. And over 22 million tonnes of bottled water travels from country to country each year.

We have started our campaign by researching which restaurants and bars on Upper Street serve tap water. The good news is that we discovered that most of them do. We visited over 50 venues and nearly 85% said they served tap water. However only one restuarant – Youngs Chinese restuarant – said they served it automatically. In all the others you would have to ask.