LONDON (AP) - The British government will be taking it from the tap starting this summer.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government will phase out bottled water in all of its departments.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell says the switch is one step in a bigger program to make all government departments more green and sustainable.
The policy starts this summer. The Cabinet office said Friday that three departments have already been serving tap water at their meetings.
Tap water uses 300 times less energy than the production of bottled water and cuts out bottle waste.