If you’re close to a Starbucks — and who isn’t? — and need to grab a bottle of water, why not make a point of purchasing Ethos Water, whose mission is “helping children get clean water” and raising awareness about the water crisis? For less than $2 for a 700ml bottle, 5-cents in America, or 10-cents in Canada, will go to the Ethos Water Fund, a subsidary of the Starbucks Foundation (the coffee retailer purchased the for-profit company from its founders in 2005). To date, “more than $7.38 million has been granted to help support water, sanitation and hygiene education programs in water-stressed countries – benefiting more than 430,000 people around the world,” it says on the web site. — Karen Bliss