* Almost half of bottled water starts out as tap water – but it costs almost a hundred times more!
* If you drink mineral water, switch brands on a regular basis. Some minerals are harmful in large amounts and you don’t want to OD on calcium or potassium.
* The oil used each year to make plastic water bottles in the U.S. could run more than 100-thousand cars!
* Bottled water is no better for you than tap water. In fact, if you’re worried about germs and pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards for tap water are tougher than the Food and Drug Administration’s standards for bottled water!
* If all the money spent on it was used to build water systems, EVERYONE in the world could have a safe supply of drinking water in less than 10 years!
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Interesting Bottled Water Facts
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Michele
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I never have been a drinker of bottled water in fact I bought one one day and it just tasted weird and strange to me. I don't like to see people reuse the bottles over and over either. I think they are full of bacteria.
This is interesting. I know my mom does not like the taste of tap water, especially in later summer. That is when we have an algae bloom here and our lake water gets really stinky.
Mom does recycle the water bottles though......
--JB
I buy one flat(35 bottles a year) and refill from the tap
They are just handy for carrying water
When you go to an airport, you cant take your bottle of water through security, even if the seal is unbroken. Once through security, you can buy a bottle but the price has skyrocketed
We are fortunate to have a great well and the best water here. I don't buy bottled water but I take some from home in a pop bottle, especially on hot summer days. I freeze it overnight so it stays cold a long time into the day on the bus.
I don't like the taste of tap water, espically after using well water (where the pumps stops several times a day) and now living near a copper mine. It doesn't taste right to me. But I don't buy bottled water I reuse a bottle that I bought for camping. But good points, all of them.
This is good information to know, I rarely buy bottled water, I drink Tap Water. About the only time I buy bottled water is when I am traveling.
Thanks for sharing Michele
Have a wonderful weekend
I try to drink very little bottled water as a result of some of the facts that you included in this post. The other one to remember is that the water in our tap contains flouride. The bottled stuff doesnt. This is also leading to an increase in teeth issues, especially children.
What an interesting post and info... O.K. I know the UK is very well known for its rainfall, and you might think that we would all be used to water on tap all the time and we are to some extent. It is very rare our tap water fails, and then that is because the pipes are being worked on. If the summer get really hot we sometimes have a hosepipe ban.
When the trend for bottled water started to happen I laughed, I never once thought the time would come when shops would be selling bottled water. Now it's all over the place, even our corner shops sell it from the chillers.
Where I live is quite hilly, and I post regular pictures of our water parks and reservoirs, but we have many natural spings as well. I came across one last week when out taking pictures. These springs are crystle clear and are always cold. Even in summer these very rarely dry up.
I don't know if you can buy Buxton Spring Water where you are, but it's a big producer of Natural Spring Water... folk have gone to Buxton -'a small quaint town in the Peak District of England'- for hundreds of years to bath and drink this water. The town grew because of this water supply.
In Buxton by the Victorian Bath-House as a fancy spring for the public... people who enjoy this water turn up with bottles large and small and fill them up for free, sometimes queuing.
My I've gone on a bit here..ha! I do find bottled water drinking a very strange thing to be doing.
I drink a lot of water. Never was a bottled water fan until our drought last summer, our water got to smelling real bad and tasted awful so I started drinking bottled water.
Sometimes I drink the bottled water just because it is convinient, but mostly I keep a container of tap water in the refrigerator and just drink that.
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