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40% bottled water is simply processed tap water. Economist.com
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86% of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter;
only 14% are actually recycled! Container Recycling Institute
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The manufacture and transport of one liter of Fiji water consumes around one liter
of fossil fuel, 7 gallons water and emits 1.2 pounds of Greenhouse Gases. Treehugger.com
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Did you know? For optimum health, you should drink 8 to 10 glasses of water every
day. Plus one extra for each cup of coffee!
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Just a 5% drop in body water will cause up to a 30% loss of energy in the person.
The #1 trigger of daytime lethargy, headaches, nausea and constipation
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Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5
million barrels of oil annually. That's enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for
a year. Earth Policy Institute
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Worldwide, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year. The amount
of crude oil going into plastic water bottles in the US each year may now exceed
10 million barrels. Earth Policy
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To distribute the water that’s hauled to and fro within the U.S. every week requires
the equivalent of 37,800 18-wheel trucks. The Week
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By volume, bottled water often costs 1,000 times the price of tap water. Economist.com
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In contrast to tap water, which is distributed through an energy-efficient infrastructure,
transporting bottled water long distances involves burning massive quantities of
fossil fuels. Earth Policy
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Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water,
it can cost up to 10,000 times more. Researcher Emily Arnold, Tree hugger
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Studies show consistently that tap water is purer than many bottled waters—not including
those that contain only tap water, which by some estimates is 40% of the total by
volume. Economist.com
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The so-called Eastern Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Ocean, described as the
biggest trash dump in the world, is 90% plastic, much of it in the form of old water
bottles. The Week
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Delivery water companies are moving in with monster 15 liter (3.9 Gallon) non-reusable
PET jugs. The bottles are recyclable but they are too big. "Our mechanical sorting
equipment cant handle it so they have to be manually picked up," he said. So "They
end up in the garbage."! "Bigger Water Bottles Filling Bins" by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
Science & Technology
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To ship a single bottle of Perrier from France to a supermarket shelf in Chicago
consumes roughly 2 ounces of oil. At every step of this process, greenhouse gases
are released. The Week
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