Posted on 02/10/2006 9:16:02 AM PST by ConservativeBamaFan
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Bottled water consumption, which has more than doubled globally in the last six years, is a natural resource that is heavily taxing the world's ecosystem, according to a new US study.
"Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing, producing unecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy," according to Emily Arnold, author of the study published by the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental group.
Arnold said although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can end up costing 10,000 times more.
"At as much as 2.50 dollars per liter (10 dollars per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline," the study says.
It added that the United States was the largest consumer of bottled water, with Americans drinking 26 billion liters in 2004, or about one eight-ounce (25 cl) glass per person every day.
Mexico was the second largest consumer at 18 billion liters followed by China and Brazil at 12 billion liters each.
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Hey my baby bottle rescued me from really bad coffee addiction.
Parts of the public water supply in Southern CA are radioactive. No kidding, radioactive and also polluted with heavy metals. But, it's made to "taste good" otherwise.
I was pretty shocked when I looked up groundwater conditions...
NAIVE.
That's what you are if you pay 2.50 for a bottle of water.
Blame the French. They started it (Evian). Yes don't even look in the direction of America. Go blame the French. Oh by the way, I am "shouting" this to the author.
"The whole bottled water craze is pretty ridiculous. Tap water is just fine for me."
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Until you find a nice spring on your property and decide to get in to the very lucrative bottled water business. Its like old Jed Clampett shootin for some food and up from the ground comes a bubbling crude....only its water....yeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....time to buy that Marcades beeenz I been wontin...
It's not fluorine that disinfects, it's chlorine. Disinfecting water is one thing, the nanny state idea of protecting us with fluorine is ridiculous. Fluorine is nasty to organic compounds, of which the human body is nothing but.
In the summer, they dump so much chlorine into our water that it smells like bleach. We've got a well too, but it gets sandy. We use a Pur filter for drinking.
Pure grain alcohol and rain water is the only way to go.
Can they do that? I mean, don't construction codes specify how many drinking fountains must be available in a public area?
Dupe, posted it yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574507/posts
Please search before you post.
"Parts of the public water supply in Southern CA are radioactive. No kidding, radioactive and also polluted with heavy metals. But, it's made to "taste good" otherwise."
ALL water is radioactive. And ALL non-distilled water contains heavy metals. It's just a matter of how much.
As a matter of fact YOU'RE radioactive, as is every breath of air you take. Have a nice day. :-)
Different article. Please read before you post.
"Different article. Please read before you post."
You're right, different article about the same report a day later.
BTW, I'm amazed to see so many people here on FR put their political feelings ahead of rationality and common sense. In public, no less. I hope most of you try and use critical thinking a bit more, and political kneejerk reactions a bit less.
Use your heads people!
bottled water is a joke.
Only bottled Corona.
That's what we do... and we actually keep 2.5G of it in tanks in the fridge, and use GLASSES. However, I do have a hard plastic water bottle that I refill with RO water from the tap at work. I don't buy bottled water anymore, except for Penta when I'm hurting really bad and can't control the nerve spasms. It helps a little bit.
Omnipresent baby bottle of warm water in one hand, omnipresent baby monitor cellular telephone in the other. The world of the wimp.
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