Bottled Water

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If your tap water is drinkable, buying bottled water is immoral.

It's ridiculous that we spend money and resources bottling and shipping water from one country to another when the recipient country has drinkable tap water. Bottled water has to be collected, purified, bottled and transported to the point of sale. Water is heavy and it takes fuel/energy to transport it. Bottles and cartons have to be manufactured, transported and disposed of, which again takes fuel and resources. There are countries where people are dying because of a lack of clean drinking water, and yet people in other places are rejecting their own tap water and unnecessarily contributing to the destruction of the planet just to get the same thing from a different place in a fancy bottle. It's selfish and stupid and wrong.

 

agree or disagree? a close friend at AOD was over the environment and water and he told me anniston had the cleanest drinking water you would find just about anywhere. and he drank it as well.