Weekly Water Facts

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Fact 1

If you drink your daily recommended 8 glasses of water per day from the tap, it will cost you about 50 cents per year.  If you choose to drink it from water bottles, it can cost you up to $1,400 dollars

Fact 2

Water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms: solid, liquid and gas

Fact 3

There are approximately one million miles of water pipeline and aqueducts in the United States and Canada, enough to circle Earth 40 times.

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•  Drinking impure, contaminated water is the leading cause of epidemic disease in developing countries. 

• There are more than 2100 known drinking water contaminants that may be present in tap water, including several known poisons. 

  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posts a daunting list of possible drinking water contaminants, ranging from various microorganisms, disinfectants, disinfectant byproducts, inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals and radionuclides.

•   Municipal water treatment facilities cannot always control for the outbreak of dangerous bacterial contaminants in tap water. 

•   Several types of cancer can be attributed to the presence of toxic materials in drinking water.

• Clean, healthy drinking water is essential to a child’s proper mental and physical development. 

• According to the EPA, lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children each year in the United States alone.

 It is especially important for pregnant women to drink pure water as lead in drinking water can cause severe birth defects. 

• Bottled water is expensive and may not be as clean as tap water or filtered water 

Since bottled water is considered a food, it is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration — unlike municipally treated water that is regulated by the stricter EPA. It is not always possible to trust that all bottled water is of the highest quality and free of contaminants. The Natural Resources Defense Council studied bottled water extensively in 1999. The findings contrasted the image of purity advertised by bottled water companies. The studies found bottled water to actually be tap water much of the time — perhaps as often as 40 percent of the time. For more on bottled water read our post about The Truth on Bottled Water.

•  Bottled water may leach chemicals from the bottle into the water, and then into your body when you drink it.

 The chemicals in the plastic bottle also end up polluting the environment during manufacture and after the bottle is discarded. The use of so much plastic is a drain on remaining petroleum sources — the non-renewable natural resource.

• Water filters reduce the risk of gastrointestinal disease by more than 33 percent by removing cryptosporidium and giardia from drinking water. 

• Water filters provide better tasting and better smelling drinking water by removing chlorine and bacterial contaminants.

• The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.

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The Truth Behind Bottled Water

Majority of the word consumes bottled water and typically, they do not think much about it. We do not consider how much oil is required to manufacture the bottles nor do we consider the sources from which the water comes from. Naturally, we assume that bottled water is safe and healthier than tap water but in reality, many brands of bottled water comes from tap water!

So what is the truth about bottled water?  

• The first documented case of selling bottled water was in Boston in the 1760s
• Jackson's Spa took mineral water and bottled then sold it for therapeutic uses

•  Approximately 60 million plastic water bottles are used in the US every day

• The average American consumed roughly 167 disposable water bottles last year but only recycled 38

•  Each plastic bottle can take up to 700 years to decompose

• The production of American's water bottles uses over 17 million barrels of oil a year (enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for an entire year) and it takes three times the amount of water to make the bottle than it does to actually fill it

• 47.8% all of bottled water is derived from tap water

• Tap water is EPA regulated and undergoes testing for e. coli and is required to provide its source and provide quality reports. Bottled water does not have to meet any of these standards. 

• The National Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, conducted scientific tests and found that bottled water is no safer than tap water.
• 103 brands of bottled water was test
• Nearly 1 out of 5 tested contained more bacteria than allowed under microbiological-purity "guidelines"
• 4% violated the generally weak federal bottled water standards (2 for excessive fluoride and 2 for excessive coliform bacteria)
  
• In 8 cases arsenic was found in at least one test at a level of potential health concern
   

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