With all the hoopla recently about many bottled waters coming from tap water, it would be easy to frame this question around the various qualities of bottled waters: mineral content, taste and purity.  And the people at Fiji have done a great job at making their case for how pure and healthy their artesian water is.  And while it may be the purest water on earth,
coming from a remote source untouched by humans or even air, that completely evades the issue of the environmental damage in every bottle of Fiji water.  How do we justify the fossil fuel required to bottle that pure water, ship it across the pacific ocean and truck it to you? We can’t.  The simple truth is that for almost everyone, tap water right out of the tap is safe, healthy and pure enough.  And if it isn’t, a simple water filter can make it so. 

The best bottled water is the kind you make yourself with a refillable bottle, and tap water. It’s a recipe that will save you money and save the environment from the needless waste of shipping water across an ocean.  I recommend Nalgene bottles for big gulpers, and the Oxo LiquiSeal Travel Mug for convenience and temperature control.  Check out  RefillNotLandfill.org for more information on the environmental costs of bottled water.