Take Back the Tap!
Sustainable choices save water, energy, and money.

During the Japanese Festival, quench your thirst at Garden water fountains and use a refillable water bottle!

Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 cars for a year.

Total energy cost of the lifecycle of a bottle of water is equivalent, on average, to filling up a quarter of each bottle with petroleum. Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

For water on the go, invest in a reusable stainless steel bottle, like our Anniversary Bottle (pictured below). 

Did you know?

• Tap water costs .002 cents a gallon. Bottled water? About 89 cents to $8.26 a gallon.

• About 86 percent of empty plastic water bottles never get recycled.

• Worldwide bottling of water uses about 2.7 million tons of plastic each year.

• St. Louis tap water was named “Best Tasting City Water in America” in a blind taste test.

• St. Louis water meets or exceeds all federal and state regulations.

• U.S. plastic bottle production consumes more than 17 million barrels of oil per year.

• We throw away enough plastic bottles a week to make a stack as wide as a football field and higher than the Arch.