Tired of Buying Bottled
The average American's annual bottled water budget is $1,400. Average annual bottles 167
Five Reasons Not To Buy Bottled Water:
The average American is responsible for approximately 50 to 75 gallons of water daily. Over 60,000,000 plastic bottles a day are disposed of in U.S. landfills from bottled water use. Other than the direct impact of 20+ billion plastic bottles a year being disposed of in U.S. landfills alone, bottled water negatively impacts our environment in many other ways. 17 billion barrels of oil are used each year to produce the 20+ billion plastic bottles, producing some 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution. It takes three times the amount of water to produce the bottle as it does to fill it. Not to mention the pollution from transporting heavy loads of bottled water all over the World!
Five Reasons Not To Buy Bottled Water:
- Bottled water isn't a good value
- In many cases it's no healthier than tap water
- Bottled water means garbage
- Bottled water means less attention to public and private systems
- Bottled water is expensive
The average American is responsible for approximately 50 to 75 gallons of water daily. Over 60,000,000 plastic bottles a day are disposed of in U.S. landfills from bottled water use. Other than the direct impact of 20+ billion plastic bottles a year being disposed of in U.S. landfills alone, bottled water negatively impacts our environment in many other ways. 17 billion barrels of oil are used each year to produce the 20+ billion plastic bottles, producing some 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution. It takes three times the amount of water to produce the bottle as it does to fill it. Not to mention the pollution from transporting heavy loads of bottled water all over the World!
Some Water Facts Of Life
Did You Know?
Source:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Water EPA
810-B-95-001
January 1995
- 3 percent of the water on Earth is freshwater and only 1 % is available for human consumption.
- Sixty-six percent of a human being is water.
- Seventy-five percent of the human brain is water.
- You could survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.
- Bottled water may cost up to 1000 times more than municipal may not be as safe.
- Typically 4 to 6 gallons of water are used for every toilet flush.
- On the average, a person uses 2 gallons of water to brush his or her teeth each day.
- A 10-minute shower uses about 55 gallons of water.
- A leaking faucet can waste up to 100 gallons of water a day.
- It is not safe for hikers and backpackers to drink water directly from remote streams.
- One gallon of gasoline can contaminate approximately 750,000 gallons of water.
- An acre of corn contributes more to humidity than a lake of the same size.
Source:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Water EPA
810-B-95-001
January 1995