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H2O: One Thing We Can't Live Without

• Under the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA), schools must make free potable water available where meals are served. No other federal regulations address accessibility of water on school campuses.

• How much does that water you’re drinking cost? • In the U.S., drinking your daily eight glasses of tap water costs $0.49 per year— drinking the same amount of bottled water, $1,400. • Combined, Aquafina (marketed by PepsiCo) and Dasani (marketed by Coca-Cola) make up roughly 25 percent of all bottled water sales; both are purified municipal water. • For $60,000 you can buy a bottle of Acqua di Cristallo—it comes in a 24-karat gold bottle, contains bits of gold dust and is the world’s most expensive bottled water. • For that same $60,000, you can purchase 20,067 cases of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water.