The association’s website www.zvodovodu.cz presents the results of a project “Can you tell what you’re drinking?” Their “Water Bar” travelled around Prague, and the rest of the country, giving people the chance to test whether they could tell the difference between tap-water and bottled water or spring-water.
Water is hard to recognise
The Water-Bar allowed people to test their ability to recognise where the water comes from. “It was usually one in five people, but in the last test in the Science Faculty of Charles University on Albertov street it was 25% of visitors to the bar,” said one of the organisers, Zuzana Cabejšková.
Why tap-water?
The “Česko drinks tap-water” project focuses on one aim – to make tap-water available not only at home, but also in restaurants. Plastic bottles put an incredible burden on the environment. For example, the energy required to make a plastic bottle is the equivalent of 45 minutes of ironing, while the production of glass bottles is even more demanding. The basic argument is also that tap-water is 10,000 times cheaper and just as good. “Tap-water has about 1 million times less impact on the environment than bottled water,” noted Cabejšková.
In restaurants too
Drinking tap-water has the support of Prague Water Authority and the Veolia water company, even in restaurants. Students have joined in with this activity and their website gives an evaluation of restaurants in Prague where it’s possible to request tap-water without any problem.
