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BOTTLED WATER IS UNNECESSARY .

I know a lot of people would look at me retarded for saying that. If you don’t believe me look at some of these statistics.

* For the $2 you spend on a liter of bottled water you can get about 1,000 gallons of tap water. Americans spent $10.6 billion on bottled water in 2009 and paid up to 1,000 times the cost of tap water. Almost half of all bottled water (48.7 percent) came from tap water supplies.

 *Testing of 10 brands of bottled water revealed a wide range of pollutants, caffeine, pharmaceuticals (Tylenol); heavy metals,minerals including arsenic and radioactive isotopes; and fertilizer residue. Bottled water in the United States falls under the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration. About 70 percent of bottled water never crosses state lines for sale, making it exempt from FDA oversight.

*About 86 percent of empty plastic water bottles in the United States land in the garbage instead of being recycled. Bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year, which requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year.

*People say they drink bottled water because it tastes better than tap. However, in blind taste tests, people can’t tell the difference. In fact, one taster in a 20/20 taste test said Evian “…tasted like toilet water”. Tap water falls under the EPAs mandate whereas bottled water, being classified as a food, falls under the authority of the Food & Drug Administration which has weaker regulations.

*Plastic when in contact with water leaches Phthalate which can cause cancers or infertility.

*800 million people have no access to clean water.  To reach the sanitation and safe water Millennium goal would take some 11.3 Billion per year.

*In the United States, 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina (13 percent of the market) or Coke’s Dasani (11 percent of the market). Both brands are bottled, purified municipal water. Water bottlers deplete aquifers and other groundwater sources, and harm local economies by paying too little for the water it takes. Contracts often also give preference to water bottlers over the town’s ratepayers because the company can draw the maximum amount of water it wants, regardless of drought or water shortage

Still want to drink it?

Biggest waste of money and resources. Buy a filter and a reusable water bottle!