The European Commission revises the Drinking Water Directive.

More transparency and accessibility of information for citizens on tap water, to be preferred to bottled water.

Indeed, the EC precisely explains that bottled water should be left on supermarket shelves, and tap water should be preferred wherever possible.

Especially in Italy, which is one of the countries that consumes the most bottled water, with an average of 208 bottles per capita per year, double that of other European countries, in the doubt that the famous “mayor’s water” is unhealthy.

A doubt that is actually the child of a cultural heritage that today has no reason to exist anymore .

Once, tap water was actually unhealthy, today it hasn’t been the case for years.
This does not mean forcing the consumer to avoid bottled water.

But it is good that, if you are concerned about the healthiness of the tap water in your city, the consumer can get adequate information before choosing .

But what is behind this call from the Commission to avoid bottled water?

It is estimated that preferring tap water would not only lead to savings of around 600 million households across Europe, but that alone, this would reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste.

To do this, the European Commission is committed to raising the quality standards of tap water even more.
It will do this by reducing the risk of contamination by pathogens from 4 to 1% according to new parameters, and by solving the problems of scarcity of drinking water in some regions.

The superiority of bottled water over tap water had already been debunked for some time.
I invite anyone who wants to read this Altroconsumo article on the subject .