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Sigg is the victim of its own success.  We are not alone in our belief that Sigg is the best water bottle you can buy.  Sigg has shut down its online store and is no longer allowing online sales at least until supply is restored.

We are honoring their wishes and ending sales of Sigg water bottles online until further notice.  Send an email to me at editor@turntotap.com if you would like a list of places where you can buy Sigg bottles.  And as soon as we have more bottles to sell, we will let you know.

I am happy to recommend Tappening - it's a great site with an innovative smart approach to bottled water issues and an action plan that could really make a difference. Go to their site. Send a message in a bottle to the bottled water industry.
The money we, as a nation, waste on bottled water could insure every single uninsured child in America!
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It’s not just marketing that makes people drink bottled water. Yes, our behavior is influenced by marketing messages, but marketing does not make us do things we don’t want to do. People drink bottled water partly because they think it is “healthy” or “clean” or “pure” but clearly turn to tap!convenience and ubiquity is a major factor in the growth of bottled wat

water bottles smallI've been reading stories lately in a variety of "green" online venues that characterize Chicago's tax on bottled water as a "sin tax" similar to taxes of liquor and cigarettes.

Garry White is a British based investment advisor. I think his piece - reprinted below - is terrific. He sums up the issues around bottled water clearly and plainly, and comes to the conclusion that we all must stop drinking bottled water - right now!. It's hard for me to disagree. We need to spread these ideas far and wide. Hopefully this article will help Turn To Tap readers make your case wherever you go.

(source: Garry White Writes: inside the mind of a strategic investor)

http://www.fspinvest.co.uk/Free-E-Letters/Garry-Writes.html

Here is a pretty good article that lays out the issues and concerns with re-usable plastic bottles and the potential for harm from leaching of Bisphenol-A into water. The risk of harm seems to be most likely for women and especially for pregnant women and their unborn children.

Plastic Water BottlesAt least one of the primary goals of Turntotap.com is to help people become conscious consumers. If we begin to understand the effects of our purchasing decisions, then we can start to seriously look at alternative behaviors that will be less damaging to our natural world and to ourselves.

One day I was checking story links online and came across a great piece in Fast Company by Charles Fishman called "Message in a Bottle." It was for me one of those epiphany moments that made me stop and think. Here I was, a long time environmentalist deeply concerned about the effects of modern culture on the natural world as well as on the lives of human beings, and I had been so busy thinking about other things, I had just not paid enough attention to this one important issue.