The trend of drinking bottled water has grown exponentially across the globe in the past decade sue to problems with tap water in many countries, even in first-world countries where the drinking water is good according to international and local authorities.
Drinking bottled water though is really more of a fad than a health thing because many of the bottled water companies have been proven to be a bunch of charlatans that take the same water that you are not drinking from your tap, putting it in little plastic bottles and slapping a fancy label on them that makes all kinds of claims that are not true.
Why is Drinking Bottled Water Not Good?
Apart from the fact that the bottled water that you are drinking and spending so much money on may be just plain old tap water and therefore no better for you than what you can get out of your own tap for a lot less, it is really bad for the planet:
- Not all companies use the best quality plastic for their bottles, which means that you may have chemicals leaching into your drinking water;
- Plastic bottles leak toxic chemicals into the ground during the degradation process, poisoning the ground, and the groundwater that is used for tap water;
- Plastic water bottles end up as trash in landfills by the megaton every year;
- Recycling plastic water bottles is all but a dream because sue to the many different types of plastic used to manufacture these bottles, it has become too expensive to sort and recycle;
- The amount of crude oil that it takes to manufacture your plastic drinking bottles could power thousands of cars for a whole year;
- These plastic bottles take up to 1000 years to degrade;
- Water companies are robbing poor communities of their natural water supplies by mining their water for bottling, which then creates water shortages in these areas;
If you do not like the water in your tap for drinking water, a cheaper, more ecologically acceptable and far healthier option is to get a water cooler that is fitted with a good water filter.
Contact Living-Water today for a free water needs assessment and introduction to their very popular ranges of bottled water coolers and point-of-use (mains) water coolers if you love your body and your planet.
