Disspelling Bottled Water Myths

I came across an interesting article on bottled water which makes the very strong point that bottled water is not what it is made to seem like ... especially by the manufacturers and distributors. You can read the full article here but some of the essential points are:

1 To make a single plastic bottle that holds the water it takes 7 litres of tap water.
2. A large bottle of bottled water costs as much as 10,000 litres of tap water.
3. Only 25% or so of plastic bottles used to sell bottled water are recycled ... the rest are strewn around the countryside or placed in landfills.
4. The carbon emission associated just with the transport of bottled water is some 33,000 tons equivalent of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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