Sunday, October 28, 2018

The Story of Bottle Water with Annie Leonard 

What I learned after watching this short video is that not all bottled water is created equal and what test and studies have shown is that tap water is sometimes healthier then bottle water.  Not to mention tap water also cost way less.  Soda companies in the 1970's realized profits to stall out and afraid people would revert back to drinking tap water, scare tactics where implemented so that people would think that tap water should only be used to washing dishes and laundry.  Bottle water companies also started to lure us with pristine wilderness pictures on labels.   The problem starts with oil being pumped from the ground to create plastic bottles, then the bottles have to shipped around the world to stores, and then consumers have to spend money on something that is consumed in around 2mins.  Then the plastic bottles get disposed of that end up in landfills, incinerators, or shipped over seas to be someones else's problem.  We need to start drinking (clean) tap water and stop buying bottled water.  The money saved from not buying or producing bottle water could be used to help others around the world that don't have access to clean water.