Ok, I drink bottled water every so often, like when it's the only thing around. And I'll re-use bottles several times before I put it into the recycling bin. Mostly I carry around a reusable hard plastic bottle and fill it with tap water. But there are many people in New York City who consume most, if not all of their water from bottles instead of the tap. All of that water is delivered by trucks from hundreds or thousands of miles away. Fiji water comes from nearly half a world away.

One way that NYC could become a role model to the rest of the nation is by going back to the tap. This was recently highlighted in Brooklyn Papers about one woman's effort in Park Slope to steer people away from bottled water.