When in France… Drink Tap Water

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That’s right, if you want to “do as the French do” on your next trip to Paris or Provence, better put down that bottle of Evian and grab a glass of cold stuff straight from the faucet.

Though France was formerly one of the world’s bottled water hotspots, according to the Guardian the number of tap-water-drinking Francais is up, and sales of the plastic are down.

That’s good news for the environment, since – as we’ve noted before on Pulse – the harm done by our obsession with bottled water goes well beyond just the piles of plastic in our landfills.

Photo by jillclardy (Creative Commons)


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Eva Holland is a contributing editor to the Matador Network. She recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of quitting her day job to write and travel full time.

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