Taking Action: A Pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit
[image by Quinn Dombrowski]
The Center for a New American Dream is asking folks to spread the word about bottled water, and they need our help! They want us to talk about, blog about, email our friends and family about this pledge. It takes 900,000 tons of plastic and emits more than 2.5 million tons of CO2 to manufacture the number of water bottles that Americans purchased and then pitched in a single year. Not to mention that bottled water costs 1000 times what tap water does. Check out some more scary bottled water facts and The Center for a New American Dream’s pledge after the jump.
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- Forty percent of bottled water is really just filtered tap water
- Bottled water is less stringently regulated by the FDA than tap water
- Transporting all of those bottles around the world by ship and plane causes unnecessary carbon emissions
- Bottling companies are buying up water rights around the world which means free water may not be available at all in the future.
That last one is the scariest. The idea of giant corporations owning our water supply is totally horrifying. Check out how well water privatization went over in Bolivia. Rates increased dramatically, and tons of people went thirsty.
We’re incredibly lucky here in the U.S. Our water supply is clean, cheap, and readily available. Let’s spread the word and keep it that way! Take a moment to read and share the pledge:
I pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit by Thinking Outside the Bottle and using a reusable water bottle instead of buying bottled water. I also pledge to support the efforts of local officials to stop spending public funds on bottled water and prioritize strong public water systems over bottled water profits.
If you need some ideas on breaking the bottled water habit, The Center for a New American Dream provides some great tips!
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THANK YOU for helping spread the word on this and bringing even more consequences of this ridiculous trend to the forefront.
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