1000 Flowers for the Planet - #13 Drink Tap Water
Personally, I gave up drinking out of a bottle when I was
one year old. However, I do still drink water. I obtain very cheap water from
my tap and I like to drink it out of a glass, like a grown-up. Fortunately I
find my local water to be very clean and tasty and perhaps that’s not the case
with everyone. But I do think people have gone overboard with the whole ‘water’
thing, sucking away on their bottles in meetings, during conversation, walking
down the street – anywhere they happen to be. It seems to me that some giant
corporation somewhere along the line did some fantastic marketing and convinced
a lot of people that they ‘needed’ to have water with them wherever they
went. Guess who the winner was in
that scenario.
Buying bottled water is an immense waste of resources, both
yours and the planet’s – crude oil to produce plastic containers, production, further
packaging, transportation, single use, your hard-earned money, finished off
with a nice touch of landfill. What a recipe for disaster!
Did you know that a litre of bottled water is more expensive
than a litre of petrol? How does your hip pocket feel? Get some facts and
figures on the Do Something website at:
http://www.gotap.com.au/Did%20you%20know/Facts.aspx
In Australia we use 50 million litres of oil to manufacture
and distribute bottled water, and
in the U.S.A. their landfills are overflowing with 2 million tons of discarded
water bottles, aside from anything else. Get some interesting U.S statistics
at:
http://thewaterproject.org/bottled_water_wasteful.asp
