When you choose bottled water rather than cola or fruit juice, you customarily feel like you’re going for the healthy, cheap option. Nevertheless the bottled water industry is way more baleful than you’d think.
1. Bottled water makes a contribution to global warming
Bottled water is accountable for 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year. Simply producing the plastic for these bottles costs 47 million gallons of oil annually. At least they are reusable, right? Water bottles are nearly always reusable, but more than eighty per cent never get past the trash. Hopeless.
2. Bottled water is costly
The average price for a small serve of bottled water is 2 dollars. The average price of the same serve of tap water is less than one cent. Per gallon, bottled water is costlier than oil. In reality the industry is valued at an average of US$60 billion per year. Compare portable water filter systems like the SureAqua products where it costs close to 2 cents per bottled water
3. In most Western countries, bottled water isn’t cleaner or more healthy than tap water
Tap water often has fluoride added to reinforce your teeth, while bottled water doesn’t . Most countries, including America and the United States, have no law that states bottled water must be higher quality than tap water. According to Bottled Water, Pure Drink or Pure Hype?, a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, up to forty percent of all American bottled water is equivalent to tap water as it comes straight from a city water system.
Of course, it’s a good idea not to drink the tap water when you are travelling overseas. The best option is to invest in a high quality filter. The best filters are either built into a bottle or can be used like a straw e.g. sureaqua
4. Bottled water is uncool
The word is out : drinking bottled water is about as uncool as being dependent on pokie machines, smoking when pregnant, or wearing your grandmother’s underclothes.
Regardless of the slick advertising on the front of bottled water, featuring totally clear water running through pristine valleys, bottled water doesn’t make anyone look healthier or sportier. It’s all part of an advertising campaign by the enormous corporations who own the primary bottled water brands that works by selling us a product we don’t need through scare-mongering and pretty photographs.
To protest against bottled water and sign the pledge to boycott bottled water from your life, visit : http://beyondthebottle.org
Wish to know more, or spread the moral outrage among your friends? This fascinating eight minute video with lovable animations should do the job : http://youtu.be / Se12y9hSOM0