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DO YOU BUY BOTTLED WATER?

If you do, think about the following:
The French bottled water Evian is naive spelled backwards for good reason

They are found floating in the Pacific Ocean in a mass of other non-biodegradable debris that is twice the size of Texas and is known as the Garbage Patch.

    • It’s a rip-off — big time.
        Coca-Cola was forced to admit in 2004 that Dasani is just tap water. Nestle’s has had to add “Public Water Source” to the label of their Pure Life brand.
        The upshot is that you pay multiple times more for a product that is available to you at minimal cost from the faucet in your kitchen.

    • Tap water is regulated, but bottlers face few regulations and plants are rarely inspected.

    • Bottled water is an environmental disaster.
          While these bottles can be recycled, eighty percent end up in landfills where they take a long time to degrade. They are found floating in the Pacific Ocean in a mass of other non-biodegradable debris that is twice the size of Texas and is known as the Garbage Patch.
        Since three times more water is used to produce the bottle than the amount of water it will contain, it is a process that wastes a life-giving resource.
        Bottled water also consumes significant amounts of non-renewable fossil fuels in extracting and transporting it to plants and then to distribution points. The entire process adversely impacts air quality and adds to climate change.

Nantucket Bottled Waters uses a public source while Chilmark Spring Water Co. uses water on family-owned property.

    • If you buy bottled water believing it tastes better than tap water, maybe you are buying the “hype”?
        For example, when ABC’s Good Morning America blind-tested its studio audience by asking them to taste samples of New York City’s tap water, Poland Spring, Evian and oxygenated 02, the Big Apple won hands down.

    • What is the likely long-term impact on a community’s water supply?
        Closer to home, Nantucket Bottled Waters, Inc. uses a public source for its operations while Chilmark Spring Water Company uses water on family-owned property. The thing is that underground water sources are not easy to map and any of them may well be part of a large network that supplies more than one community.

Like oil, we are beginning to realize that our supply of water is not inexhaustible.

Unlike oil, however, there is NO substitute.