The use-and-throw water bottle has become the flagship symbol of our obsession with convenience at the cost of common sense. Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than tap water, wrecks havoc on a variety of natural ecosystems, and is not even the safest choice. So why is this kind of common sense so uncommon? A tremendous amount of energy goes into the extraction, processing, transport and packaging of bottled water. The journey of the water starts most commonly