Infographic: Water Pollution Crisis

More than a quarter of Americans avoid drinking tap water for fear of contamination.

There’s a growing water and plastic pollution crisis In America, as most people fear to drink tap water, which they believe is rife with contaminants, lime scale, and micro-plastic.

These were the findings of a recent survey of over 500 US households by TAPP Water — a Barcelona start-up that is looking to make tap water cleaner and healthier — which also found that in the past 10 years, consumption of water on plastic bottles doubled to 12.8 billion gallons in 2016. Households spent on average over $400 a year on bottled water, which also means a higher carbon footprint which also means they have a much-increased carbon footprint which comes with making and transporting those bottles.

“We are killing our oceans and planet,” says TAPP Water Co-founder Magnus Jern. “This year alone, plastic was found in a third of fish, and those individuals who eat seafood ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year. We need to work together on a solution to this growing epidemic.”

In December TAPP Water launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to bring the…