Bottled Water Everywhere....Maybe?

Bottled water has been a major issue this month, starting with the recent disclosure by Aquafina that its water is actually from the tap. Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S.- public water source. Aquafina's home page goes to a lot of trouble to highlight its 7-step purification process, a "state of the art process that includes reverse osmosis." OK, I suppose that sounds good to the average consumer, but shame on Pepsico for not disclosing this sooner. We all want to know where our water comes from, and if it's not from a natural spring or organic source, the consumer should know. In any case, we have bigger problems, meaning the bottles themselves. An August 12th article in the New York Times (see link) explores the latest "green" trend in bottled water, which is to tout tap water instead, or advocate the use of aluminum bottles, as is being promoted for this year's Fashion Week in New York in September. It's well known at this point that the mayors of several major cities, including San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis, recently urged against bottle water in favor of tap.
Given that "it takes 1.5 million barrels of oil a year just to make the plastic water bottles Americans use, according to the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, plus countless barrels to transport it from as far as Fiji and refrigerate it," we need to all seriously consider tap water and the use of recycled aluminum containers for drinking water. What's the point of saving our health if we exhaust the earth's resources? Let's ask the question now and start changing our ways, or it will all be "water" under the bridge.