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Beware.
Grabbed this quick post from the SF Zoo's Animail email digest. Definitely some good reminders on the dangers and, frankly, environmental disaster bottled water is.
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It's Expensive
It's thousands of times more costly than tap water.
It’s Falsely Advertised
Don't be misled by the snowy mountain on the label – the water comes from a public water system 40% of the time.
There's No Proof it is Safer
Paying for it doesn't make it better. Tap water is monitored much more frequently and strictly than bottled. In fact, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Water Quality Division recently found San Francisco's tap water to be among the cleanest in world – so clean it doesn't even need to be filtered! Also, the fluoride in some tap water helps kids grow strong, healthy teeth.
It’s Bad for the Environment
Millions of plastic bottles don't get recycled and end up in landfills and even oceans forever. Check out the island of trash twice the size of the state of Texas swirling far out in the pacific ocean between California and Hawaii. Many animals die from eating the caps from plastic bottles and other bits of plastic that look like food to them.
Demise of Drinking Fountains
We used to be able to hydrate for free almost anywhere – now these watering holes are harder to find.
Read more in Peter Gleick's book Bottled and Sold – The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water.





