• BOTTLED WATER VS CLEANING UP THE WATER SUPPLY- Members of the United Nations estimate that if the world spent half of the $100 billion it spends annually on bottled water and invested it in water infrastructure and treatment, everyone in the world could have access to clean drinking water.
• U.S. EPA sets more stringent quality standards for tap water than the FDA does for bottled beverages and that roughly 40% of bottled water is actually just tap water?
• A water bottle in a landfill will take over 1, 000 years to biodegrade.
• According to the Container Recycling Institute, only 14% of plastic bottles are recycled.
• We use 1.5 billion barrels of oil each year to produce the plastic for water bottles, enough to fuel 100,000 cars.

excerpted from organicconsumers.org