$18 per Gallon and Rising
Eighteen dollars per gallon and rising? Could it be that something that bad for the environment is also that expensive? Yep, that’s right baby! That’s what you’ll be paying for water if you drink out of plastic bottles.
I generally avoid bottled water and try to avoid bottled drinks altogether. It just seems crazy, though I enjoy the occasional Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout, that we should be shipping liquid across oceans just so people can have something to drink when, in most cases, perfectly good water flows out of the kitchen faucet for almost nothing. Recently, though, I flew out to see my family and couldn’t bring water past security. We all know how dangerous water is right? So I bought a bottle inside the airport and did a quick calculation. I was paying $18/gallon for that water. There would be revolution in the streets if gas prices when that high.
Meanwhile, a billion bottles a day go into landfills or some obscene number like that. In addition, huge amounts of energy are spent shipping water from all over the globe. Can you believe that people will actually buy water from Fiji (one of the fastest growing “brands” of water) and France (Evian, Perrier) and then actually worry about recycling the bottle! For Christ’s sake, can’t they see that the environmental damage from shipping the water is the main thing.
Oh, and actually it isn’t the main thing. If the water is so-called “spring water”, that means that it has been exctracted from the ground just before it comes out of the spring (otherwise it’s well water or surface water). The way you prove that your water is spring water, is basically by impacting a spring enough to make is stop flowing. Now taking 1% of the flow out of a river does nothing, but taking 50% or 99% of the flow out of a spring basically is going to kill everything that used to live in that water shed. When are people going to stop this bullshit!
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