Australians are being urged to replace plastic bottled water with tap water during Keep Australia Beautiful Week, in a bid to shift our obsession with bottled water.

ORGANISERS of big community events to small-scale school fetes will be able to keep their patrons well and truly hydrated.

During the recent finals series Yarra Valley Water featured a Choose Tap pop-up.

Nearly 375 million plastic water bottles end up in landfill and waterways, contributing to Australia’s growing landfill problem and harming marine life.

Kialla’s St Anne’s College has become the first secondary school to sign on to Goulburn Valley Water’s Water Only program, committing to choosing tap water as their drink of choice in school hours.

Local community members and the Foster Chamber of Commerce approached South Gippsland Water looking for a drinking fountain to be installed in Foster.

Gippsland Water managing director Sarah Cumming said the organisation’s donation was part of a broader effort to promote tap over bottled water in the community.

Just one vote was all that separated Mackay and the winner of the best tasting tap water in the world title.

From free tap water refills to strict anti-waste policies, hundreds of businesses around the country are starting to walk the walk when it comes to shifting to more eco-friendly practices.

South East Water and Bayside City Council have teamed up to make it easier for residents, visitors and their furry friends to choose tap water over bottled, with three new water fountains installed across three bayside locations.

Compost - unsurprisingly, something few of us ever think much about.

Yarra Valley Water, City West Water and South East Water have teamed up with Metro Trains to install six new drinking fountains at some of the busiest train stations across Melbourne, as part of the Choose Tap fountains program.