Updated Apr 3, 2008 - 7:08 pm
Seattle Restaurants Embrace Tap Water
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710 KIRO Reporter
Listen to this reportA handful of Seattle restaurants have weaned themselves off of bottled water, which means thirsty patrons are drinking from the tap.
It's tap water for everyone at B&O Espresso, the Capitol Hill restaurant that used to sell bottled Pellegrino. Co-owner Jane Lukatah says, "We've always provided that choice if people want bottled water. But really, I find people are fine with tap water, so there isn't any point to carry it."
Lukatah joins famous restaurateurs like Alice Waters and Mario Batali in a pledge to waste less and save customers money. She says, "The impact to the environment, the cost of transporting, it's totally not necessary. It's such and easy thing to drop."
Corporate Accountability International's Mary Rafferty says Seattle tap water is just as good if not better than bottled. She says, "People are leery of our public water system and that's exactly what we're trying to challenge right here. We need to have more confidence in our public water system. Seattle's water in particular is incredibly safe and clean."
Rafferty says the bottled water marketing campaigns fool people into thinking it's safer, "They have mountains in the background, they have clean streams, when, in actuality, 40 percent of bottled water is actually municipal tap water bottled and sold back to you at thousands of times the price."
Both Mighty O Donuts and Portage Bay Cafe have pledged to Think Outside the Bottle and restaurants around the country are choosing to sell filtered water. Some are even carbonating their own water instead of selling the bottled fizzy stuff.
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