The Bottle vs. Tap Water Wars.

"Not only does bottled water contribute to excessive waste, but it costs us a thousand times more than water from our faucet at home, and it is, in fact, no safer or cleaner," says Victoria Kaplan, senior organizer with Food and Water Watch, a nonprofit that recently launched a Take Back the Tap campaign to get consumers to ditch bottled water.

This brings back memories of the famous Perrier water scandal of 1990. Read more about the tap-vs.-bottled water debate at the National Geographic.

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