Bottled water corporations have sold people a bill of goods--positioning bottled water as healthy, when in reality it threatens our health and our ecosystems, costs thousands of times what tap water costs, and undermines local democratic control over a common resource.  Water bottling is one of the least regulated industries in the US--much less regulated than our public tap water. Scientific studies even show that bottled water is no safer than tap water, and is often less safe, sometimes containing high concentrations of toxins like arsenic and mercury. 

Bottled water corporations directly impact local communities. Bottling plants operated by these water giants are springing up across the US and around the world.  Bottlers extract water in huge amounts from local springs and aquifers, often drying up wells and springs or depleting wetlands and draining rivers, with serious impacts on the ecosystems. If these corporations are not draining local water supplies, the water bottlers take it directly from our public tap water systems--more than one-quarter of bottled water sold comes from municipal supplies. These corporations use political and economic clout to secure sweetheart deals, block legislative efforts to secure local control and pursue costly and time-consuming litigation against individuals and governments.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
People around the world are resisting the attempt by corporations to decide who has water and who doesn't. We're joining these efforts by leading a public education campaign across the US called Think Outside the Bottle, to raise awareness of the importance of protecting our public water systems, to build the broad base of support needed to protect our water over the long haul, and to pressure the corporations that profit from it. At the same time, we are working toward a global treaty to protect the human right to water.

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