Tap: Do-it-Yourself Bottled Water Kit - a most refreshing alternative to buying bottled water

Here's a perky solution to the expensive and environmentally contentious issue of buying water in plastic bottles. Tap is a do-it-yourself bottled water kit. The idea is simple: instead of binning your empty bottle of water, revive it with one of these 10 self adhesive labels and use your bottle another ten times, by filling it from the tap, turning redundant rubbish into a smart, sustainable product.

Tap water is pretty good, and you can always filter it if you're worried about the quality. Ten labels used ten times saves 100 bottles of water - that's between £80 and £150 saved (depending where you buy your water!) That's great savings for you and the planet.

70% of Tap's profits go to fund water projects in the developing world. Each pack contains five small labels and five large labels, for different bottle sizes. A great eco gift for anyone who drinks water!

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Water Facts:

1. Six million litres of bottled water are drunk in the UK every day

2. A quarter of all bottled water is simply filtered tap water

3. In 2006, 99.96% of UK tap water tests by the Drinking Water Inspectorate passed quality sampling

4. 27 million tonnes of plastic are used worldwide to bottle water each year

5. When Decanter Magazine conducted a blind tasting of 24 brands of bottled water in December 2007, Thames tap water came joint third

6. Of 13 billion plastic bottles sold in the UK last year, only 3 billion were recycled

7. It takes seven litres of water to make a single one-litre plastic bottle

8. £2 would buy you 10,000 litres of tap water versus two litres of bottled water

9. Transporting bottled water creates 33,200 tonnes of CO2 each year in the UK alone

10. A litre of bottled water generates up to 600 times more CO2 than a litre of tap water

11. The world's most expensive bottled water is Kana Nigari from Hawaii. It sells for £15 for a 2oz bottle – or £255 a litre!

12. 81 Percent of water sold in UK comes in plastic bottles – and 27m tonnes of plastic are used to bottle water worldwide each year

13. Between 2006-07, a total of 105,957 litres of bottled water was sold by the House of Commons Refreshment Department

14. Bottled water is between 240 and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water

15. A billion people in the world live without clean drinking water – a number expected to quadruple by 2050

16. To make the 29bn plastic bottles used annually in the US requires more than 17m barrels of oil a year, enough to fuel more than a million cars for a year.

17. Consumers spend five times more on bottled water each year than it would cost to combat the 1.8 million deaths of children attributable to waterborne illness each year.

18. The ecological cost of transporting bottled water between source, bottling plants and central distribution points in the UK generates 30,100 tonnes of CO2

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