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Recyclemania: Bottled Water Facts

The manufacture and transport of a 1-liter bottle of Fiji brand water consumes: 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) 0.849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and Emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds). Manufacturing and shipping a one liter bottle produces over half a pound of greenhouse gas emissions, and uses nearly 7 times the amount of water in the bottle. Fiji Water produces more than a million bottles of water a day, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have reliable drinking water. Calculations by: Pablo Päster on TriplePundit
29 billion plastic water bottles used for water are consumed every year in the United States. Manufacturing: 17 million barrels of crude oil Energy used for pumping and processing, transportation, and refrigeration: 33 Million barrels of crude oil Total: 50 million barrels of oil equivalent—enough to run 3 million cars for one year! Source: www.earthpolicy.org
More than a quarter of bottled water is just processed municipal tap water, including Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani!
Tap water contains fluoride!
Bottled Water does NOT.
There is no research that has shown that bottled water is safer or more "natural" than tap water.
Bottled water “Regulations” (FDA): 60%-70% of bottled water is not regulated Bottled water plants are not always inspected every year Bottlers don't have to let consumers know if their product becomes contaminated
Tap water Regulations (EPA): All municipal tap water is heavily regulated EPA guidelines require Water Quality Reports be provided to the public The public must be notified if the water quality is outside established bounds
Over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away.
In 2003, the California Department of Conservation estimated that roughly three million water bottles are trashed every day in that state. At this rate, by 2013 the amount of unrecycled bottles will be enough to create a two-lane highway that stretches the state's entire coast.
Plastic waste is now at such a volume that vast eddies of current-bound plastic trash now spin endlessly in the world's major oceans. This represents a great risk to marine life, killing birds and fish which mistake garbage for food.
That bottle of water that takes just three minutes to drink can take up to a thousand years to biodegrade.
One person's average yearly bottled water consumption in the U.S. could buy an entire Kenyan family's water for over TEN years! Source: www.thewaterproject.org