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Where do you get your drinking water?
Do you drink it straight from the
tap, or do you boil it before drinking?
Or perhaps you drink only bottled water?
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MO 3 grOup of four undergraduates have started a campaign to
Sncourage people to drink tap water instead of bottled water。 The campaign.
GUeCDmmleWise Drnk Tap2aims to reduce plastic waste in the long run. Tve
always found it convenient to drink straight from the Besides, Tve never
Suffered any discomfort from drinking Singapore's tap water. But my mother
would scold me for this。 Although Singapores tap Water js safe to drink, my
mother believed it Was "safer' to 2 、| itfrst.
When 1 was living in the countryside 開 Kyoto Prefecture, Some friends told
me they Would drink tap water at home. but not if they Were in Kyoto City, as it
didn't taste as *clean' or 'sweet' Some of my friends avoid tap water because
they fnd that bottled water tastes better. But even 下 it does, Tm not sure it
justifies the great price tag and environmental cost.
According to a June 2 ali in 77e Gz27dzZ7。'a million plastic bottles
ebought around the world every minute, and the number will jump another
209% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis which some campaigners predict
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In 2016. more than 480 bilion plastic drinking bottles were sold worldwide.
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To persuade more people to drink tap water, Singapores Drink Wise, Drink
Tap campaign ran a blind taste test at a community event They iled a huge
mon Jari with bottled water and an identical jar with water straight from a
fap In the public toilet nearby.
To Hundred people tasted the water。 Most could not 店6 To be
Tonest Tould prefer to 人ll my glass from my kitchen tap instead of the (olet
ip ButiThedto choose petween buying bottled water and reflimg my bottle
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