Why not celebrate a holiday in honor of bottled drinking water! All people should be part in this celebration of everything hair-brained, sad, irresponsible, and environmentally vulgar in the bottled drinking water market that several of us so cluelessly support (me included)!
I’m not pointing any fingers on this. I’m as guilty as anybody else. I’ve picked up several bottled drinking water bottles from many a Kwik Trip cooler and gulped it down in the scorching summertime heat. I’ve even snagged a container or 2 to quench my German Wirehair’s thirst when out grouse hunting in warm climate. He seems to like the water at times more than I do.
The symbol of bottled drinking water is one of ice topped glaciers spewing rolling creeks of angel kissed drinking water. It is Mother Nature’s very best liquid, caught, contained and capped to quench our thirst. Like lemmings scurrying from a cliff side we grab the bottles off store shelves. Cluelessly salivating and enthralled by the snow topped mountains on the labels. And without having question we slam straight down the cool H20, without a notion with regards to the quality of the water or the impact on the environment. How could this sort of a happy looking and organic label be anything except all-natural bliss, right?
A recent 2013 Study by the Environmental Working Group concludes that Just about every twenty-seven hours Americans use enough bottled h2o to encompass the entire equator with resin bottles stacked end to end. Click here for more info.
Rather despicable if you stop to think about it. It might be one thing if we had overly polluted drinking water right here in the U.S., like they do down in Mexico where licking so much as an ice cube might have you pinned to the toilet for several hours in a sweat riddled dual with Montezuma’s Revenge. If bottled h2o was a must because we had no other option, then drowning ourselves in resin drinking water containers could well be a tiny bit more bearable. It could be just a little bit less pathetic.
But the fact is that most bottled water is purely bottled tap water! That’s correct! It’s the same water you obtain when you stroll over towards the faucet and fill a glass, except:
– Contained drinking water costs are up to 1,900 times Greater than faucet h20
– Bottled h2o quality rules are significantly less STRINGENT than those policing the quality of faucet water
– Contained drinking water contains chemical compounds derived from the plastic bottles (unlike faucet water)
– It takes an estimated 2,000 times more energy to develop contained water than to produce an comparable quantity of faucet water (Gleick 2009).
So quite possibly it is time to question our selves why we have been so addicted to quaffing down H2o which costs far more, pollutes far more, contains more harmful chemical compounds and produces more waste than plain tap water?
Lots of men and women are uneasy regarding the safety of their faucet water. In these cases easily including an in-home h2o filtering system is more than ample to cure any problems. Many development regulations these days additionally require backflow enclosures preventers and pressurized water well systems to avoid contamination of water wells. Plus a standard test kit will detail the quality of your well drinking water too.
As American’s we’ve got some of the best quality, most stringently filtered and stringently examined potable water sources in the whole world. Let’s open our eyes & think about how stupid we’re all being by paying for bottled drinking water and falling victim to the many well made promotional programs and very well designed labels that fool us all.
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