ECONOMIC CRISIS DIET - PLEDGE #9

9. I pledge to drink more filtered tap water.

WHY?

YOU: Less exposure to plastic (exposed to heat in transportation) is crucial to the health of your water. Filter your tap water to keep it available and relatively clean. If we don't use it, we'll lose it and municipal water should always be flowing to the citizens. Yes, there is some ICK! in tap water, but do your research and find a great filter - ideally for the whole home/office/school.

• Bottled water contains disinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue, and pain medication

• Bottled water is full of oil. Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 cars for a year. To put it another way, the entire energy costs of the lifecycle of a bottle of water is equivalent, on average, to filling up a quarter of each bottle with oil. (Pacific Institute)

• Tap water is more highly regulated than bottled water and over 90 percent of water systems meet EPA's standards for tap water quality.  (If the taste or color is a little off from your tap, your pipes are probably at fault—a simple filtration system should do the trick to take both aesthetic problems away.)

WALLET: Bottled water is so much more expensive than utilizing reusable bottles of tap water.

• Drinking the recommended daily amount of water using bottled water can cost an average of $1,400 per year; drinking the same amount from the tap costs around 49 cents for the year. (NY Times)

PLANET: Bottled water has been one the worst paradoxes of recent times: polluting the planet with discarded plastic in the name of ingesting clean water. Even recycling the plastic (which happens to a very small ratio of plastic bottles) still requires unnecessary and pollutive plastic production.

• New American Dream's 5 Step "Break the Bottled Water Habit"

• Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up (NY Times)

Live Light, xo-C.

More Resources:

Reuseable Water Bottles and Water Filters

Tappening.com -  "Think Global. Drink Local."

Comments

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