Water on tap?

Should restaurants and bars serve water on tap instead of bottled water?

Islington Friends of the Earth are launching a new campaign to highlight the perils of bottled water:

• Bottled water is more expensive than tap water
• The bottled water industry generates around 33,200 tonnes of CO2 a year
• 2 gallons of water are used to produce one gallon of bottled water
• Only 15% of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are recycled
• PET takes up to 450 years to break down in landfill

For more on why bottled water is bad, click here

We have started our campaign by researching which restaurants and bars on Upper Street serve tap water. The good news is that we discovered that most of them do. We visited over 50 venues and nearly 85% said they served tap water. However only one restuarant - Youngs Chinese restuarant - said they served it automatically. In all the others you would have to ask.

For more on the campaign, visit again soon...