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07.02.09 - 11:55 AM
The Insanity of Bottled Water
Pictures by environmental artist and photographer Chris Jordan. His website is here.
Mid-way in an Eco Week declared by DK GreenRoots, a new environmental advocacy group, a piece reminding us that bottled water makes no environmental, economic or moral sense. A sampling:
Along with the fossil fuels burned and greenhouse gases burned, making and moving a 1-kg bottle of water uses 6.74 kg of water. Traces of Bisphenol-A have been found in almost every American tested for it. The average cost of a bottle of water is roughly 2,000 times that of tap water. Over 26,000,000,000 bottles of water are sold in North America each year, with 86% going into landfills and 1,500 discarded every second.
Etc. For more on DK Green Roots, go here.
10 Comments so far
Show AllActually, the reason for bottled water is how it can be used as a conduit for a substance that any someone controlling that bottled water wants those that drink water from bottles to ingest and that could suggest the apatheic feeling of people about what is happening to them much less any desire to 'disturb' the status quo of disaster that people are living.
What Bisphenol-A actually does to people has been linked to increased conditions of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes type 2 and guess what the biggest health problems in our country are and how easy it is to contaminate the natural water supply and/or scare people into thinking that a corporation that bottles and sells water is producing a better product.
Here is a link on Bisphenol-A:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/media/questions/sya-bpa.cfm
has anyone considered the possible health benefits of using exclusively bottled water for waterboarding?
One helpful step would be to bring back the public drinking fountain in schools, parks stores, sports facilities and theaters.
It would cut down on selling bottled water and harmful sugar crap liquids too, but could be marketed as a community spirited public service. Start asking for water fountains everywhere.
PS - I have no stock in water fountains.
Joe
If you hold an empty plastic water bottle to your ear you can hear the ocean......dying.
I love watching the pseudo-enviromentalists preach about the environment while drinking their bottled water.
Evian is naive spelled backwards.
Tap water is also less contaminated, the regulations governing tap water are set by the EPA - bottled water regulations are set by the FDA - the EPA regulations are more strict.
Bolivia practically fought a civil war when Bechtel came in and tried to privatize the entire nation's water. Here in America we are paying Coke (Dasani) and Pepsi (Aquafina) to do the same to us.
A gallon of bottled water costs more than a gallon of gasoline. Not long until we start invading countries for their water...
"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow"
Pandonodrim July 2nd, 2009 3:18 pm...And do not forget, Bechtel also tried to privatize the Bolivian's RAINWATER. Can you imagine?
Yeah, pretty horrible - thank god the people of Bolivia are more democratically inclined than we are, lol.
"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow"
P.T.Barnum was right.
Of course it makes economic sense! Corporations make like a 5,000% profit off bottled water! Consequences be damned, profit is holy!