Things to do Without: Bottled Water

Bottled water is not safer, cleaner, or healthier. It is costly in terms of money and trash.

Unlike tap water, most bottled water sold in the US does not have to meet any FDA regulations. Things that are found in bottled water include arsenic and synethetic organic carcinogens.

Bottled water is nothing more than a great marketing strategy having people pay a lot of money (as much as you pay for gas) for something that is essentially free from the tap.

Your tap water is safe. It is highly monitored by both the EPA and the FDA and allows for no E. coli or fecal coliform bacteria; bottled water does not have this regulation. If you have the stomach, read this recent report on what is in your bottled water.

In the United States alone over 40 BILLION bottles of water are purchased every year and 80% of those are never recycled. To make those 40 Billion bottles requires 47 million gallons of oil. Quitting our water habit would be like taking 100,000 cars off the road every single year. For each bottle of water that we drink, five times that amount is required to create the bottles. That water is released back into the environment as dirty water containing nickel, ethylene oxide, and benzene.


Pledge today to cut back or stop using bottled water.