Bottled Water Faces A Backlash - GiveMeTap Steps Up To The Plate

There are few things we like better here at Idea Bounty than seeing an incredibly simple Idea spread like wild fire and thats just what is happening with a UK project called GiveMeTap. Basically GiveMeTap believes that access to fresh tap water is a basic human right. So they set out to make water easily accessible and its consumption ethically sustainable, and above all economical; with the aim of bringing an end to the (unnecessary) use of using plastic bottled water.

Beginning in Manchester, GiveMeTap has signed up restaurant or café owners as ‘Providers’ who then supply free access to clean tap water to those who carry branded GiveMeTap aluminium bottles which retail at £7 each. What makes it really exciting is that consumers can use any internet enabled device (like a smartphone) to locate the 'free water providers' through the GiveMeTap mapping service.

If that if not enough GiveMeTap uses 70% of the profits they make from the sales of the bottles to fund independent water projects in rejoins that need it the most. Over all one hell of a wonderful Idea im sure you would agree - Consumers get free water (why were we paying for it in the first place) the owners of the cafes, restaurants and other 'prodder' locations get free publicity and it all works towards helping to fund water focused projects, its hard to imagine a more win-win situation or how the bottled water industry is going to survive the backlash!