Bottled water is proven to be horrible for the environment and your wallet, so why do we keep buying it. Let’s give some facts. According to an article on The Huffington Post called “Plastic Water Bottles Causing Flood of Harm to Our Environment” by Norm Schriever. It says that it takes three times the amount of water to manufacture a water bottle than to fill it. It also says that we use 17 million barrels of oil every year just to manufacture the bottles which can fuel a million cars for an entire year. That not all of it, if you add up all the additional costs like shipping, processing and refrigerating it adds up to a total of 50 million barrels of oil a year. That is an incredible amount of oil being used for something that is not necessary.

Another thing is that most of the plastic bottles eventually land in landfills or the ocean which is horrible for our environment. stated in the same article mentioned before it says we only recycle 23% of the water bottles we use this is close to 38 billion water bottles or 1 billion dollars worth of plastic that should be re cycled each year. This is clogging up our environment and takes many years to degrade.

This shows that water bottles are bad for an environment and is definitely not worth the rip off price of it. Bottled water is 1000x times more expensive than tap water and it is only harming the planet and the people living on it. Just next time you're thirsty, try drinking out of a tap and help the environment.

Bottled water use is a huge issue, and it's one that is so easy to solve. All one needs to do is invest in a reusable bottle, and they can use it anywhere! Most coffee shops will even accept your reusable bottle or thermos for them to fill to reduce on your personal footprint.

However, one must keep in mind the fact that roughly 30% of the world don't have access to on demand, clean drinking water from a tap - and bottled water can sometimes be the only option. In this case, buying in bulk is the answer. One 5 liter bottle is better than ten 500ml bottles

A completely agree. According to the Huntington Post there are 50 million water bottles consumed in a year, and 30 million of those are consumed in the U.S. Which means that the U.S. is responsible for over 60 percent of the water bottle consumption. This data leads me to wonder what percent of water bottle are recycled, thrown in the trash, and those that are simply littered. Some people may argue that plastic water bottles are a necessity to everyday life, but there is a way to get the hydration we need and a way to keep our planet clean at the same time. Reusable water bottles are the answer to our problem. There is a way to keep our planet clean, these solutions just take more effort such as caring a water bottle around with you.

Hey Pablo, I just wanted to inject a little hope to the excellent point that much of the world cannot access clean water. This is actually one of the problems that we are the best at solving. While 844 million people do not have access to clean drinking water, we are closing that gap. Currently, 220 people an hour gain access to water, making up millions of people a year. If we keep going at the rate we are going, the whole world will have clean water by 2039 and that's only 22 years away. While this may seem like a long time, it is incredibly short for such a massive issue.  To put this timeframe in perspective, 22 years ago it was 1995, Bill Clinton was president and the O.J. trial was the big news. Not so far away now right? Anyway, I hope I have improved our outlook on the world water crisis, and stay optimistic. http://www.wateraid.org/what-we-do/the- … hievements
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I agree that using reusable bottles is an efficient and easy way to help reduce our carbon footprint.  Since it is true that many people in the world rely on bottled water as their source of clean water, those who have clean water readily available to put in a reusable bottle should do so to leave more resources, such as plastic and oil, for sending clean water to those who really need it.

I agree with what you were saying and do believe we need to end the use of bottles water in our everyday lives. According to an article by Ban The Bottle, Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles in the last year but only recycled about 23% of them. This statistic is shocking because this means the rest of the bottles either go into landfills or other places they should not be like the ocean. Having plastic in our oceans is especially harmful because animals end up eating this waste and dying which causes havoc in the food chain. All in all people really need to start using reusable bottles and should stop buying plastic bottles.

I agree that we should stop bottling water and not recycling the bottles. Our family is trying to take water with us instead of buying water in bottles. That is crazy that only 23% of the bottles were recycled. To think that all those bottles are ending up in the ocean and killing the animals that eat the waste because they think it is food it horrifying.

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When it comes to how we do spend our money, the product that jumps immediately to mind as wasteful, expensive and easily preventable is bottled water. Bottled water is a very big part of landfills. According to http://homeguides.sfgate.com/water-bott … 79179.html "the production of plastic bottles requires millions of barrels of oil per year and the transportation of bottled water from its source to stores releases thousands of tons of carbon dioxide." Also water bottles are very expensive. You can have tap water at your home for much cheaper. It amazes me that only 23% of the bottles are recycled. Using a reusable bottle can help the Earth stay clean and help you save money.