Back2Tap Links
Find more information about tap water campaigns, water quality, water filters, health issues, sustainability, Pacific garbage patch, recycling, privatization of water, and watershed awareness.
Disposable Plastic Bottle Waste
Watch video – An Anthropologist’s View of Disposable Water Bottles
View Powerpoint – Water Disasters
Green Living
Health issues
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Public Health News Center on water bottles and bottled water:
www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/2008/goldman_schwab_bpa.html
Physicians for Social Responsibility on safe drinking water:
www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Safe_Drinking_Water_main
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/healthywater/index.htm
Pacific Garbage Patch
Algalita Marine Research Foundation: www.algalita.org
Privatization of water
Corporate Accountability International (CAI):
www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/stopcorporateabuse/home.html
Recycling
Container Recycling Institute (CRI): www.container-recycling.org/
Sustainability Information
Pacific Institute:
www.pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustainability/bottled_water/bottled_water_and_energy.html.
Ask Pablo:
askpablo.org/
Tap Water Campaigns
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled/take-back-the-tap/#documentContent www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org/ Bottle Twaddle, Is Tap Water all Tapped Out?
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bottled-twaddle
Waste-Free Lunch
Water Filters
National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) on drinking water and water filters:
www.nsf.org/consumer/drinking_water
Food and Water Watch:
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/take-action/consumer-tools/choosing-a-water-filter
Consumer Reports (May 2007) on water
filters:
www.consumerreports.org/cro/home-garden/kitchen/water-filters/water-filters-5-07/overview/0507_filter_ov.htm
Grist magazine:
www.grist.org/advice/possessions/2004/05/04/mcrandle-bottled/index.html
Green Guide magazine:
www.thegreenguide.com/reports/product.mhtml?id=23&sec=2
Water Quality
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html
Environmental Working Group (EWG):
www.ewg.org/tapwater/findings.php
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC):
www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qtap.asp
Watershed Awareness
Clean Water Action:
www.cleanwateraction.org/
H2O for ME (Maine):
www.h2oforme.com/blog/
Great Swamp Watershed Association:
www.greatswamp.org/