This page is currently being worked and will be available soon..In the meantime please check out the
following links on this very timely and controversial topic of bottled
water!
Tapped(the documentary) See the trailer:
www.tappedthemovie.com
Americans bought more than 29 billion bottles of water in 2007. (International Bottled Water Association)
http://www.bottledwater.org/public/Stats_2007.doc
There was a total of 11.7 billion dollars in sales in the year 2007 from bottled water. (The New York Times)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008 /03/19/techno logy/rbogbottle.php)
75% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and less than 3% of that is drinkable. (Water and Waste Water International)
http://www.water-int.com/categories/water-cycle-supplies/global-water-cycle-supplies.asp
Every day, Nestle, Coke and Pepsi pump hundreds and thousands of water from earth, bottle it and sell it back to us
for 1900 times the cost we pay to get it from our faucet. (Environmental Working Group)
http://www.eausecours.org/acrobat/embouteillage/007.pdf
40% of bottled water is just filtered tap water. (The Metro West Daily News)
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x947780042/Nestle-bottles-sells-filtered-Framingham-tap-water
60 – 70% of all bottled water is purchased within state lines (NRDC)
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp
In 2007, the US consumed 8.823 million gallons of water. (Beverage Marketing Corporation)
http://www.bottledwater.org/public/Stats_2007.doc
From 1995 – 2005, the number of PET bottles
in landfills skyrocketed from 1,175 million to 3,900 million pounds. (CRI
http://www.container-recycling. org/ media fold/news
articles/plastic/2008/5-24-NY-BottledWatersImpact.htm
If bottled water were covered under just 11
state bottle bills currently granting 5-10 cent refunds on returned soda
bottles , the PET plastic waste could drop three fold or more nationally.(CRI)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/reduce-water-bottle-pollution-expand-state-bottle-bills
By the year 2030, two thirds of the world
will lack access to clean water. (Foresight Institute)
http://www.foresight.org/challenges/water.html
The Natural Resources Defense Council tested
more than 1000 bottles of 103 brands of water and found about one-third of
the waters tested contained levels of contamination -- including synthetic
organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic -- in at least one sample that
exceeded allowable limits under either state or bottled water industry
standards or guidelines. (NRDC
http://www.nrdc.org/water /drink nag/nbw.asp
People spend from 240 to over 10,000
times more per gallon for bottled water than they typically do for tap
water. (NRDC
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking /nbw.asp
In 2006, the equivalent of 2 billion half-liter bottles of water were shipped to U.S. ports, creating thousands
of tons of global warming pollution and other air pollution. (Lighter Footstep)
http://lighterfootstep.com/2008/05/five-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water
Estimates variously place worldwide bottled water sales at between $50 and $100 billion each year, with the market
expanding at the startling annual rate of 7 percent. (Lighter Footstep)
Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for year.(Frankly Green)
http://www.franklygreen.com/my _weblog/2007/06/bottled _water_f.html
Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. (Water Industry News)
http://www.waterindustry.org/New%20Projects/bottled-water-5.htm
If everyone in New York City were to use a reusable water bottle for one week, for one month, or for one year it would make a
significant difference in reducing waste.
One week = 24 million bottles saved
One month = 112 million bottles saved
One year = 1.328 billion bottles saved (Frankly Green)
http://www.franklygreen.com/my_weblog /2007/06 /bottled_ water_f.html