As someone who religiously buys (and drinks) a 2 litre bottle of water per day but never wants to pay the extortionate prices that restaurants charge for it, I was interested to discover that a new carafe has been designed to make ordering tap water ‘more sophisticated’.

Designer Neil Barron’s Tap Top carafe could soon be present on the tables of restaurants, hotels and bars across London after being chosen as the winning design by judges of the London on Tap competition.

Designers were set the task of coming up with a design for a glass carafe to house tap water in a bid to make it easier for diners to choose it over bottled. Judges said Barron’s design (pictured) fulfilled all the criteria being ‘practical, sustainable and beautiful.’ It will now be mass manufactured and ready for sale to the industry for next spring. The London on Tap campaign, supported by Thames Water, aims to make tap water readily available to diners to cut the environmental impact of packaging and transporting bottled water. Apparently tap water is around 500 times cheaper than bottled water; and generates 300 times less carbon during production than its bottled water alternative.

So everyone, when asking for tap water whilst out dining no longer will you have to suffer feeling like you’ve asked the waiter to chop off his hand and put it somewhere the sun don’t shine, plus you can be smug in the knowledge that you are doing your bit for the environment!

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