Does bottled water hurt the environment?
It is not the water that is hurting the environment, it is the way bottled water is packaged and how far it has to be delivered to us. It takes 1.5 million barrels a year just to make the plastic water bottles Americans use, according to the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, plus countless barrels to transport it from as far as Fiji and refrigerate it. Bottled water has now overtaken coffee and milk in sales nationally, and is catching up with beer. From a health standpoint, we have been trying to steer people away from the liquid candy — juices, pop and everything else. The solution is not to buy other kinds of drinks. The solution is to bring your own water.
