i live in a country where 45 % of people have no access to direct pottable water. that means that the water they have access to, mainly from local wells or the river, can't be drunk straight away because it's not save and people may get sick or even die.
the main reason for this lack of drinking water is a lack of money. it cost's alot to sink a borehole to deep enough a level to reach save water for drinking and then pump the water up - money which local people just haven't got considering that the average per capita daily income here is us$ 1.
finding an article like this throws up so many questions in my mind. to ask them all here in deatail would make this post just to long.
http://www.yahoo.com/s/896313
and the general question of water as a limited global resource and the wasteful way we handle that is a totally different thing as well. but for me it beggars believe and always has - even before i moved here from the uk 4 1/2 years ago - that people actually PAY alot of money to keep their bodies from functioning and not drying out. yes i know, tap water isn't totally free but in comparison.....
now we may argue that if we want to pay all that money for a drink that's nobody's business. yes i agree. but it's not only that is it??
other factors we ARE NOT considering is everybody's business - after all, this wold is important to ALL of us and lets face it, we are only custodians here, it's NOT OURS.
now that's in the us alone - translate that onto a global market and it's truly staggering.
that's all facts we can get our head around quite easily because we can relate the empty bottle to the water inside and we all know that we use oil for making the bottle.
the truly horrendous and really hidden horror is this:
no wonder we run out of oil and killing our planet. and for what? FASHION
i wonder who makes the big bucks
cheers???
no thanks
i drink tap
the main reason for this lack of drinking water is a lack of money. it cost's alot to sink a borehole to deep enough a level to reach save water for drinking and then pump the water up - money which local people just haven't got considering that the average per capita daily income here is us$ 1.
finding an article like this throws up so many questions in my mind. to ask them all here in deatail would make this post just to long.
http://www.yahoo.com/s/896313
and the general question of water as a limited global resource and the wasteful way we handle that is a totally different thing as well. but for me it beggars believe and always has - even before i moved here from the uk 4 1/2 years ago - that people actually PAY alot of money to keep their bodies from functioning and not drying out. yes i know, tap water isn't totally free but in comparison.....
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| Strictly speaking, tap water isn't free — it costs about $0.00002 per ounce.
But single-serve bottled water costs between 1,000 and 4,000 times more, according to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. |
now we may argue that if we want to pay all that money for a drink that's nobody's business. yes i agree. but it's not only that is it??
other factors we ARE NOT considering is everybody's business - after all, this wold is important to ALL of us and lets face it, we are only custodians here, it's NOT OURS.
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| According to Lauria's bottled water association, in 1990, 2.2 billion total gallons of bottled water were sold worldwide. In 2007, it was 8.8 billion.
In just the last year, wholesale dollar sales for bottled water grew 7.8%, to $11.7 billion in 2007, according to the bottled water trade group. |
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| Plastic water bottles produced for U.S. consumption take 1.5 million barrels of oil per year, according to a 2007 resolution passed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. That much energy could power 250,000 homes or fuel 100,000 cars for a year, according to the resolution. |
now that's in the us alone - translate that onto a global market and it's truly staggering.
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| Then there's the waste stream.
In roughly the last 10 years, the amount of polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles being recycled increased from about 775 million pounds in 1995 to about 1,170 million in 2005, according to the Container Recycling Institute. But during the same time period, the amount of PET bottles going into landfills skyrocketed from 1,175 million to 3,900 million pounds. |
that's all facts we can get our head around quite easily because we can relate the empty bottle to the water inside and we all know that we use oil for making the bottle.
the truly horrendous and really hidden horror is this:
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| Cornell University professor and environmentalist Doug James said the irony of bottled water is that it's marketed as clean and healthy when its production contributes to unnecessary environmental degradation.
"Fiji water, for example," he said. "A one-liter bottle is taken out of the aquifer of this little island, and shipped all the way across the world, producing like half a pound of greenhouse gases so you can have this one-liter bottle of water." |
no wonder we run out of oil and killing our planet. and for what? FASHION
i wonder who makes the big bucks
cheers???
no thanks
i drink tap
As you should 
(I do think that my faucet water isn't healthy)
