8 October 2008
Break the Bottled Water Habit
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Collin Beavan over at No-Impact Man has posted about the new Break the Bottled Water Habit Campaign. This campaign seeks to encourage Americans to ditch bottled water in favor of tap water. Bottled water is actually no safer than tap water, and is actually subject to less regulation than tap water! I don’t know about you, but I find that to be disturbing. Not to mention, bottled water creates literally thousands of tons of waste, and uses petroleum products to create the bottles.
I encourage you to sign the petition stating that you will give up bottled water in favor of tap water. We use a Brita filter pitcher for our drinking water at home because we don’t like the taste of our municipal water. Nearly everywhere I go, I take my Nalgene water bottle filled with water from home. It costs us pennies to use, and there’s almost no waste. Ideal Bite has some excellent information on choosing a safe water bottle.
If you want to sign the petition, here’s a link to the petition. If you don’t read your local water quality report, I encourage you to do so.
To sum up, bottled water is a huge, and unnecessary waste of money and resources. It is no safer than tap water (and 40% of bottled water is tap water!), its expensive, and wastes plastic. Make the pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit today!
