November 2007 | Choice News
Don’t Get Mad, Get Active
Take the “Think Outside the Bottle” Pledge
Do you believe that drinking bottled water is better for you than drinking water straight from your tap? If so, think again. The fact is, although bottled water is billed as more pure, many brands come from the same source as public tap water. And, if it’s not bad enough that as consumers, we’re paying bottled water corporations billions of dollars each year for tap water, we’re also wasting resources. According to Think Outside the Bottle, each year more than 4 billion pounds of PET plastic bottles end up in landfills or as roadside litter, while making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil last year — enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year — and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
The good news is that we can help reverse the trend by choosing tap water over bottled water, and by supporting the efforts of local officials to reduce the social impact and environmental harm of bottled water by prioritizing public water systems.
Help Think Outside the Bottle send the message that water is a human right, not a commodity. Visit thinkoutsidethebottle.org and take the pledge!
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