The Truth about Bottled Water
It’s scary when you start looking for truth. As Americans we are use to living our lives without having to answer to other people, and our selves. And we have enough inputs in our culture to numb any difficult questions that are eating our souls. So if something is convenient for us, if it’s trendy, it must be ok. don’t ask questions because we really don’t want the truth.
Americans spend $100 billion a year buying bottled water, even though the restrictions on our tap water is stricter than bottled water. We pay almost $10 a gallon for water when it’s bottled, even while almost 2 million people go without clean water everyday.
So the American mind set is to say ” why don’t we buy bottled water and ship it over sea’s to third world countries so they can have clean water.” Well because we already use 2.7 million tons of plastic a year just too make the bottles. then once the water is gone, 86% of the bottles becomes trash. Burning them produces toxic gases like Chlorine. Burying them takes a 1,000 years to biodegrade them. And more then 50 Indian Villages have complained of water shortages after Coca-Cola began extracting water to use for Dasani.
It’s estimated that $12 billion could provide the world with clean water and sanitation, that’s only 12% of what we spend a year on bottled water. It is a lot of money, but Americans spent $9 billion in one day last year, Black Friday. Why isn’t there a Politician, or environmental company stepping up to solve this problem.
So here’s where it gets hard. You have to ask your self, “Am I contributing to the problem”? And as a Christian, can I really go on doing something that destroys the planet. After all Christians should be the most vocal environmentalist. Drink more tap water, reuse plastic bottles, and if you have buy water there are companies doing something about this. Buy Ethos water sold at Starbucks they give a percentage to solve the “Clean Water Problem”.
Just buy a filter or drink the tap water. I seem to remember tap water tests to be just as clean as bottled- and sometimes cleaner.