Bottled water costs 1,000 times what tap water does and is far less regulated. Thanks to “manufactured demand,” this booming industry sells a fantasy to suckers, putting filtered tap water in plastic bottles and charging 1,000 times the price. Most of these single-use bottles are wrecking our land and oceans worse every day. Here’s the story of bottled water, in video.
There are easy solutions to this problem, one person at a time.
1) Put a filter on your tap if you don’t like the taste.
2) Put that water in a reusable water bottle when you leave the house.
3) Use a water fountain. Kids do it every day and…they don’t get sick!
4) Travel with a Steripen or other filter and a reusable water bottle if the water supply is iffy.
5) Lead by example. Don’t pop open a new landfill entry just because someone hands one to you.
Otherwise, see the 5 Gyres site to find out where all those bottles you drank from and discarded are now floating in the ocean.
