Thoughts on water bottles

One of the ongoing mini-struggles that my husband and I have is over water bottles. He hates the waste generated by empty plastic water bottles, and the waste of money spent on them. We have good, filtered water, and plenty of ways to hold and drink it. I understand and agree with his views, yet often end up buying bottles of water because they are so dang convienent!

Then tonight I read this post by Wendy Cooper, and I am re-dedicated to drinking filtered tap water, using our lexan water bottles when we're out, and to avoid buying bottled water as much as possible. These statistics are incredible - $46 billion spent on bottled water globally each year - and only $1.7 billion more annually (than is currently spent) would be enough to provide clean drinking water to everyone on earth? There is much to think on here about what I can do that might make a difference...