More and more environmentalists are beginning to question the purpose of lugging heavy, inefficient, polluting plastic water bottles all over the Earth.

The parent organization of the World Wildlife Fund, the Switzerland based World Wide Fund for Nature, argues strongly that the distribution of bottled water requires substantially more fuel than delivering tap water, especially since over 22 million tons of the bottled liquid is transferred each year from country to country. Instead of relying on a mostly pre-existing infrastructure of underground pipes and plumbing, delivering bottled water - often from places as far-flung as France and Iceland - burns fossil fuels and results in the release of thousands of tons of harmful emissions. Since some bottled water is also shipped or stored cold, electricity is then expended for refrigeration.
The WWF estimates that around 1.5 million tons of plastic are used globally each year in water bottles
Most water bottles are made of the oil-derived polyethylene terephthalate, which is known as PET. While PET is less toxic than many plastics, the Berkeley Ecology Center found that manufacturing PET generates toxic emissions-in the form of nickel, ethylbenzene, ethylene oxide and benzene. Then there are the disposal problems, it takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to degrade in a land fill.
Mineral fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides have seeped into surface and subsurface waters in some parts of the world contaminating them beyond human consumption and disrupting delicate ecosystems. Dumping of sewage and industrial wastes and toxins pollute rivers and lakes and threaten the world's most important resource.

So what can we do? Nobody wants to drink unfiltered tap water, so there’s no alternative to carrying 1,400 kg or 3,000 lbs or 1.5 tons, per average couple, per year, of those full plastic bottles up your stairs and then carting around 1,500 of the empties down again!
Well actually there is...(click here to find out what it is)

 

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