Stop the Bottled Water Use!
Bottled water companies promote their products as being purer and safer than regular municipal (tap) water. Bottled water can cost over 10,000 times more per gallon than regular tap water. Many bottled water campaigns say their products are held to “higher standards,” but in reality tap water is actually held to more stringent quality standards than bottled water. Many brands of bottled water have been discovered to be nothing more than tap water in disguise. The ever increasing consumption of bottled water is fueling an unsustainable industry that leaves a heavy imprint on our environment. The estimated amount of oil used to create bottles for bottled water is 1.5 million barrels of oil. The amount of oil burned to transport these bottles is too significant to calculate.
The massive increase in bottled water production has produced water shortages in areas near bottling plants and plastic bottle plants. In addition to the millions of gallons of water used in the plastic-making process, two gallons of water are wasted in the purification process for every gallon that goes into the bottles.
The next time you begin to feel thirsty stop before you grab a bottle of water! Go to the nearest computer and google personal water filters. You will find a filtered bottle that you can use in the city to filter regular tap water. The filters are designed to remove everything you dislike about tap water.
