There are a lot of myths and urban legends about tap and bottled water.\u00a0Here are 10 facts you probably didn’t know<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t That’s enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year (not including oil used for transportation).<\/p> Manufacturers are not required to disclose water sources, treatment processes, nor to publish any contaminant reports.<\/p> If this article convinced you, and you want to give up on water bottles, you might want to get an active carbon filter, such as TAPP 2<\/a>. Our latest filter is efficient in removing Chlorine (often associated with poor taste and smell), Lead and other heavy metals, as well as over 80 other contaminants – all while letting the healthy mineral<\/a> through.<\/p> There are a lot of myths and urban legends about tap and bottled water.\u00a0Here are 10 facts you probably didn’t know. 1. 93% of bottled water contains microplastics 2. More than \u00bc of bottled water is just municipal tap water 3. It takes 3 liters of water to produce a 0.5L bottle of water 4. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":88977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4003],"tags":[3944,1044,3942,126],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275842,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions\/275842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.tappwater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. 93% of bottled water contains microplastics<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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<\/a><\/h2>2. More than \u00bc of bottled water is just municipal tap water
<\/a><\/h2>3. It takes 3 liters of water to produce a 0.5L bottle of water<\/h2>
<\/a><\/h3>4. Recycling plastic takes 88% less energy than making plastic from raw materials
<\/a><\/h2>5. In 2020 the U.S only recycled 28percent of PET plastic \u2013 more than $1 billion worth of plastic \u2013 are wasted each year
<\/a><\/h2>6. U.S. households spend $16 billion per year on bottled water – that is more than the total cost of the 2018 Winter Olympics
<\/a><\/h2>7. Bottled water is more expensive than gas per gallon
<\/a><\/h2>8. America uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually to produce water bottles<\/h2>
<\/a><\/h2>9. There is no real scientific proof that bottled water is healthier than tap water<\/h2>
<\/a><\/h2>10. Bottled water is a packaged good, and is regulated by the FDA.<\/h2>
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