Stop drinking bottled water

Americans pay more for bottled water per gallon than they do for gasoline... and this when they can get free, often times higher quality, water out of there taps. The environmental impact of the popularity of bottled water is staggering, between creation of bottles, transporting, and disposing the cost are huge... and for the most part completely unnecessary.

While certainly there are times when its necessary, it should be avoided whenever possible. Here's a link explaining in more depth.

Written By: David O'Leary
Date Posted: 2/8/2006
Number of Views: 321

Comments

David O'Leary Says:

3/2/2006 10:21:36 AM

So I did some research on the whole Flouride thing based on Michelle's comment. Interesting... there may be some merit behind it all or there may not, hard to say for sure. Guess it might be good to buy a faucet filter that can decrease flouride levels. But that doesn't change my mind about drinking bottled water as I do know for a fact that there are significant consequences to the bottled water industry.

JN Says:

2/13/2006 12:00:00 AM

I appreciate your posting of the article -- both for its content and your evident concerns. I have been concerned about the effects on the planet of empty plastic bottles - soda, water, etc. - as well as the production and packaging costs to the environment. When water can be available from a fountain, faucet, or even larger jug or water cooler, the sight of people consuming water from bottle after bottle pains me.

Michelle Says:

2/10/2006 8:08:04 PM

I came across your blog when I did an image search for Miniwanca photos.

I have to say I disagree with the report you cite about tap water being safe to drink. The following is an article online...and there are many which corroborate that chlorine and floride are unsafe for consumption, even in the minute amounts in our tap water...among the other bad things in the supposedly 'safe' tap water.

I buy water in 5 gallon containers from a store where it undergoes a 12 step filtration/ozonation process. I initially started doing this because I hated the taste of chlorine in the tap water I was drinking.

Hope you enjoy the info...

Best wishes.

Tap water and water filtration systems

The main problems with tap water are:

Chlorine

Fluoride

Other contaminants (PCBs, THMs, heavy metals)

Let's examine the fluoride problem first:

In 1973, British Columbia was considering mandatory fluoridation. They gave the job of researching and reporting the topic to Richard Foulkes, MD. Foulkes then wrote a 1900 page report and he recommended that legislation be passed to make fluoride mandatory in Canada. Based on that work, Canada began to fluoridate.

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