No more Bottled Water

Every day we use millions of plastic bottles to carry bottled water. We pay two to four times the cost of gasoline for a product that we can get in our own homes for next to nothing. But why do we buy it at a great cost to our environment and wallet? There are many differences between bottled water and tap water, from the treatment to the water quality and regulations to the environmental impact on the water system. Water is the most important thing to our survival, it keeps our bodies and planet functioning. The water we drink comes from a multitude of sources including underground springs, reservoirs, rivers and lakes. Water is treated in a variety of ways which can be anything from very extensive to nonexistent. Our water has not always had the quality control and testing that it does today, the systems we currently use for our water has taken time to develop. The life source of our planet is water; droughts that are created by mankinds over consumption have terrible effects on the environment and ecosystems. Our water supplies are very important to us and we have processes that protect us from contaminants in water.

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Since there is no requirement for bottled water to be labeled with its specific source location or treatment methods, it is difficult to find out what private companies do to the water, but tap water treatment methods must be easily accessible to the public.

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Poland Spring (2009) water is cleaned when it “percolates through layers of fine sand and gravel.”

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Fiji (2004) tells consumers that “[o]ver thousands of years, countless tropical rainfalls soaked through… sedimentary strata.”

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Perrier is protected by layers of rock and clay which is what filters it.

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Dasani (2012) is “filtered for purity using a state-of-the-art process called reverse osmosis.”

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Water makes up between 55-78% of a human’s body weight.

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If you drink your daily recommended 8 glasses of water per day from the tap, it will cost you about 50 cents per year. If you choose to drink it from water bottles, it can cost you up to $1,400 dollars

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Residents of sub-Saharan Africa use only 2-5 gallons of water per day

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At 50 gallons per day, residential Europeans use about half of the water that residential Americans use

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More than 25% of bottled water comes from a municipal water supply, the same place that tap water comes from.

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Move over, soda -- the bottled water business is booming

As New York City's ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sugary drinks at some businesses starts on Tuesday, one thing is clear: soda's run as the nation's beverage of choice has fizzled. In its place? A favorite for much of history: Plain old H2O.

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Drinking from a Bottle Instead of the Tap Just Doesn't Hold Water: Scientific American

Some 2.7 million tons of petroleum-derived plastic are used to bottle water worldwide every year, and costs consumers up to 1,900 times more than tap water

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The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don’t believe me. Jonathan Potter

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Discovery Health "Skip the Bottled Water: It's Dirty"

New data shows that bottled water isn't so crystal clear after all. Learn more about skipping the bottle water.

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How Does the Water Get from A to B to You?

Bottled water:             It is driven or flown to a warehouse, and then it is driven to you at home or to your local supermarket where you buy it, and then drive it home.

Brockton Tap: The water is transported through pipes to easy access points.

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Health-conscious Americans consume 30 billion single-serving containers of bottled water a year. Supporters of new bottle bills are trying to figure out what to do with all the plastic.

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