Only morons drink bottled water
I generally don’t drink bottled water. I know that a lot of it is just expensive tap water. Why would you pay Nestlé or Coke more than a dollar to package municipal water? Drink Coke, buy a beer or use the water fountain. It’s free! The price of bottled water is up to 10,000 times the cost of tap water.
I’ve been a hypocrite and a moron in the past and I’ve purchased bottled water. When I go camping I purchase large containers of water from the grocery store and maybe a case of bottled water. Dumb.
Put your bottle of water down and take a look at The Facts About Bottled Water. Some of the stats are mind boggling:
- Americans spend $61 billion/year on bottled water
- 40% of all bottled water comes from the tap
- it takes 3 bottles of water to produce 1 plastic bottle
- only 1 in 5 water bottles are recycled
I’ll get off my high horse and stop preaching now, but still, $61 billion dollars a year! Imagine if the world put that money into developing clean drinking water instead of bottling it up.
Posted in Observations at 10:10 AM
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I think the title of this blog post should be added to the truth. It’s short, on-the-nose, and true.
Posted by: Ryan on December 11, 2009 12:27 PM
Interesting list about the truth. I like this truth:
“Wilco is good, sometimes exceptional, but often inconsequential.”
If they update the list “only morons drink bottled water” would make a good addition.
Posted by: jay 
on December 12, 2009 10:19 AM
Jay,
We flush more water down a toliet here to get rid of a duker then people in most of the world have to drink. Drink water from the tap and get rid of the bottles. Unless it’s beer.
JB
Posted by: JB on December 12, 2009 5:23 PM
Drink from the tap and send me those dukers … like milk and honey to this ol’ boy! While yer at it, landfill those bottles.
G
Posted by: G on December 17, 2009 4:46 PM
