Bottled Water is a choice
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Kesava Mallela
Jul 5, 2007, 3:50:00 AM7/5/07
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and perhaps not a very wise choice.
The story of bottled water is full of absurdities. For example it takes 5 liters of water to make a PET bottle, leave alone the actual water in it. At a typical price of $1.29 a bottle, it costs more than gas and most carbonated drinks !! An average American drinks 18 half-liter bottles of bottled water a month, more than we drink of coffee, milk or beer. The resulting business is a booming $16 billion industry. And the worst part of it is ....most water drinkers can't distinguish between tap water and luxury bottled water if they're presented in the same vessels at the same temperature. In San Francisco, for example, water is from Yosemite National Park. Water is so pure that EPA doesn't require to even purify it!
Worldwide, 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water; 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water. We pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year--in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic.
Its hard to look at bottled water the same way after you read this long but startling article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
Kesava
The story of bottled water is full of absurdities. For example it takes 5 liters of water to make a PET bottle, leave alone the actual water in it. At a typical price of $1.29 a bottle, it costs more than gas and most carbonated drinks !! An average American drinks 18 half-liter bottles of bottled water a month, more than we drink of coffee, milk or beer. The resulting business is a booming $16 billion industry. And the worst part of it is ....most water drinkers can't distinguish between tap water and luxury bottled water if they're presented in the same vessels at the same temperature. In San Francisco, for example, water is from Yosemite National Park. Water is so pure that EPA doesn't require to even purify it!
Worldwide, 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water; 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water. We pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year--in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic.
Its hard to look at bottled water the same way after you read this long but startling article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
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