atula asks:Why is water not canned?

What's wrong with refilling your bottle say, 100 times, or say,1000 times? Now THAT'S RECYCLING!! Rick @ The TerraMadre Foundation

Metal always seems to leave a funny taste in water, I think. I know people who won't even take a drink from the sink with a metal glass or tumbler.

Millions of people have now been "trained" to consume their H2O in single serving disposable containers. While I would agree that we should stomp our foot and tell people to use reusable containers and/or their tap water, it will take a long time to undue the single use phenomenon. So... who ever said that the containers need to be plastic (which happens to be one of the worst things we can do to our environment)? I'm with Atula - put it in an aluminum can. It is cheaper, easier to recycle, and certainly not a new idea. There are limited use examples - supplies for hurricanes, water on airplanes, tonic water, mineral water... so why can't we buy regular drinking water in a can off the shelves of our local grocery store? I'm guessing that it's because given the choice in past testing, consumers opt for the plastic bottle and no bottler has the guts to push their product on the shelf and take a lead role in educating consumers that their cans won't rust, transfer a metallic taste, or leach toxins like the plastic containers do. I've asked some well known water brands... but they refuse to answer my queries because they fear sharing packaging testing results or new ideas.

So... who wants to start a company to get single serve aluminum canned water out to the consuming public. It might add a few more years onto the time we've got on this planet.