You’re STILL Drinking Bottled Water? Seriously?
This will be my last rant about the evils of bottled water. Maybe.
We Americans pay for conveniences and extravagances like no other society.
We spend $20 Billion – yes, BBBillion – on bottled water. Every year.
The crazy thing is, there are more smartphones in use on the planet than there are people with access to safe drinking water. And, the people who live in those places where our bottled water comes from, don’t have access to safe reliable drinking water!!
That’s tragic.
It’s not hip.
It’s not clean.
It’s not cool.
It is WAY cooler to carry your water in a reusable stainless container. We use the Contigo brand in my family, but there are many to choose from.
Fill it with tap water. Tap water is more regulated (read, safer) than bottled water. If you are a skeptic, simply filter your bottled water. We do.
In case you still don’t get it, please take a look at this video, “The Story of Bottled Water” by Annie Leonard:
Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Se12y9hSOM0
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Lisa
19. Nov, 2011
We are spoiled by the convenience of bottled water. It is so easy to walk into anyplace and just purchase a bottled water as to having to keep that steel bottle clean and ready to fill. It would be a great habit to get into for our health and our earth’s health too.
Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD
22. Nov, 2011
Hi Lisa,
I can’t agree more, and we are ALL guilty of succumbing to using bottled water when it is convenient – me included!
We should simply do all that we can to stop using bottled water when there is an alternative.
It is such an embarrassment (tragedy is more like it) that the majority of people that live where our bottled water comes from do not have access to safe drinking water. That just continues the world image of the fat, spoiled, selfish American. Nothing to be proud of there.
Thanks for visiting, and for taking the time to share your thoughts!
RF (boogs)