I prefer spring water, like Deer Park. Deer Park really is good water. It tastes good. I don’t like Aquafina. I never did. It turned out Aquafina was tap water. Ah. That explained my dislike of it.

I’ve been dragging my feet to acquire a filtering system for my tap. I could save a lot of money. And that’s one thing that is important to me. Not being green. Saving my own green.

You may or may not be aware that many of the largest bottled water companies in the world sell us tap water at $1.50 a bottle while using 17 million barrels of oil (in 2006). To put that into a little perspective, that is enough fuel for more than 1 millions cars in the U.S. for a year and generates over 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. While we applaud the industries efforts to recycle, it is a fact that only 20% of these bottles are. The rest end up in the waste stream costing cities over $70 million dollars a year in cleanup and landfill costs.

The real problem is all the fossil fuels that have to be burned to make the plastic, fill the bottles, extract, filter, and purify the water, maintain the factories and warehouses, ship the millions of bottles, keep them cool at retail, and then process the waste — all for nothing, because the stuff in the bottle is no better than the stuff that comes right out of the tap. What bottled water has is a brand, and that’s what we aim to create for tap water, which happens to be in every way a much better product.

Our environment needs all the help it can get and this one is simple, yet could have such a large impact.

We are very pleased with the rapid acceptance we have found in the marketplace to hear our message. We’re thrilled to have the attention of Coca Cola (although they may not be), The Environmental Protection Agency, The Federal Drug Administration, the blogosphere and the press. Naturally we are thrilled to have over a half a million page views at our site (www.tappening.com) in under two weeks.