Pictures by environmental artist and photographer Chris Jordan. His website is here. [4]
Mid-way in an Eco Week declared by DK GreenRoots, a new environmental advocacy group, a piece reminding [2] 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. [3]

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