It has been claimed that drinking bottled water is unnecessary given the quality of tap water, but that it is a greater idiocy to believe that we should drink as much water overall as we are told.The Independents Dominic Lawson explained that much political bluster over bottled water is missing the point, revealing that much of the liquid content we need is already drawn from food.Environment minister Phil Woolas was criticised for claiming it to be morally unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on bottled water when we have pure drinking water, and at the same time one of the crises that is facing the world is the supply of water.Mr Lawson claimed that no attempt to change water consumption habits in the UK would affect water supply issues in Africa and beyond, telling people instead to focus on the need to puncture the myth that eight glasses of water a day must be consumed.Fruits and vegetables are said to contain much of the moisture needed to avoid dehydration, making it unnecessary to drink large quantities of water.But Mr Lawson indicated that those seeking their daily H20 intake would indeed be best to avoid the environmental cost of bottled water and drink what comes out of their kitchen taps.