subject: Hey Fellow Citizens: Its Time To Make A Stand In Opposition To Bottled Water! [print this page] How about we have a special day in honor of bottled h2o! All of us folks could be part of such a celebration of everything hair-brained, shameful, sickly, and environmentally sickening in the bottled h2o industry which a lot of us so sadly help (myself included)!
Im not pointing any fingers here. Im as guilty as absolutely everyone else. I have picked up a lot of bottled water bottles from many a Kwik Trip shelf and hammered it straight down in the hot summer sun. I've even snagged a container or two to tame my German Wirehairs thirst when outside pheasant hunting in unseasonable weather conditions. He seems to like it sometimes more than I do.
The status of bottled h2o is certainly one of crystal capped glaciers oozing rolling rivers of clear h2o. It really is Mother Nature's most refined liquid, captured, contained and capped to quench our thirst. Like lemmings scurrying from a cliff face we snag the containers from store shelves. Cluelessly salivating and enthralled by the snow capped peaks on the front. And without any question we quaff down the refreshing Water, devoid of a thought pertaining to the quality of the liquid or the effect on the environment. Just how could this kind of a joyful looking and pure label be anything except all-natural bliss, correct?
A recent 2011 Study through the Environmental Working Group concluded that Just about every 27 hours Americans drink enough bottled h2o to circle the entire equator with resin bottles stacked end to end.
Relatively despicable after you stop to think about it. It might be one issue if we had really polluted water here in the U.S., just like they do down in Mexico where licking so much as an ice cube could have you pinned to the potty for hours in a sweat riddled dual with Montezumas Revenge. If bottled h20 was a necessity mainly because we had no additional solution, then burying ourselves in plastic water containers could well be a little more understandable. It could be a little bit less disgusting.
But the fact is that most bottled h20 is simply just bottled tap h20! That's right! It's the exact same water you get whenever you walk over to the sink and fill a glass, except:
- Bottled h2o prices are as much as 1,900 times MORE than tap h2o
- Contained drinking water grade regulations are LESS Detailed than those policing the quality of faucet water
- Contained drinking water contains chemical compounds derived from the resin containers (unlike tap water)
- It requires an approximated 2,000 times more energy to generate bottled water than to develop an comparable amount of faucet water (Gleick 2009).
So quite possibly it truly is time to ask ourselves why we're so addicted to slamming down H20 which costs much more, pollutes far more, involves additional unsafe chemical compounds and creates much more land fill than simple faucet water?
Plenty of folks are uneasy in regards to the safety of their faucet drinking water. In these cases quickly including an in-home h2o filter is a lot more than satisfactory to cure any issues. Most engineering regulations nowadays also call for backflowdrinking water valve preventers and pressurized drinking water well systems to forestall contamination of water wells. And also a uncomplicated test kit will uncover the quality of one's well water too.
As American's we've got some of the best grade, most heavily filtered and heavily examined clean water resources in the whole planet. Let's open our eyes and consider just how knuckle-headed we are all acting by obtaining bottled water and falling victim to all the wonderfully made selling programs and effectively created labeling that trick us all.
