From "The Story of Bottled Water" Script
"People in the U.S. buy more than
half a billion bottles of water every week. That’s
enough to circle the globe more than 5 times.
1"
"Guess where
a third of all bottled water in the U.S. actually comes from? The
tap! Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coke’s Dasani are two of the many brands that are really filtered tap water.
2"
"The problems start
here with extraction and production where oil is used to make water bottles.
3 Each year, making the plastic water bottles used in
the U.S. takes
enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars.
4 All that energy spent to make the bottle,
even more to ship it around
the planet and then we drink it in about 2 minutes?
5"
"What happens to all these bottles when we’re done?
80% end up in
landfills, where they will sit for thousands of years.
6 "
"Consuming water
from the tap...reduces energy consumption by 85 percent
and greenhouse gases by 79 percent…Even the best performing
bottled water scenario
has global warming effects 46 times greater than
the best performing tap water scenario.
7"
Kick the Bottled Water Habit (from StoryOfStuff.org)
Bottled water is not safer, or better tasting, or even more convenient,
than tap water; it’s certainly not cheaper, and it generates massive amounts of needless waste. The piping, the bottling, the transportation,
the greenhouse gases…it’s all unnecessary. So, on a daily basis, we don’t need bottled water, period.
As individuals, we can
each stop buying it and start using reusable bottles. If you plan to purchase a bottle, we recommend stainless steel or lined aluminum.If you have concerns about the quality of your tap water, or the chemicals it may contain due to treatment or to contaminants, contact
your local water utility to ask for a report. To address your concerns, there are many brands of safe, convenient home water filters
you can install in your kitchen.
This website was created to suggest you make an intentional decision every time you consider opening a manufactured bottle of water.
Consider that bottled water has an environmental impact at every step in the process; the bottles: raw material extraction, raw material
consumption, manufacturing, transportation, disposal; and the water: harvesting, transportation, filtering, bottling, transportation
(again).