This Time I Side With The Environmentalists..A Near First

Personally I always questioned the genuineness and the saneness of the bottled water craze and the fact that people were willing to spend so much money for water in this country where gratefully it is so readily available in quantities and quality unmatched anywhere in the world for the most part free of charge. Particularly now that we see Aquafina has been screwing so many for so long with their marketing fraud played on the public so blatantly.

For those unaware, they were simply selling basic tap water under the guise of being "special spring water" coming from the fountain of youth somewhere in "God's Country" somewheres north..lol... is a claim used for many beer manufacturers forever asserting each of their unique brews contains "Artesian Spring Water" or some other magical h2o source to that effect. Many of them can be found right here in this Google search I did for this post.

To me this time the environmentalists seem to have a solid point when they talk about the millions and millions of plastic bottles that are unnecessarily chucked in the garbage every day around this country and the world for that matter resulting from this vain trend.

(Count me among the ones that keeps the Aquafina bottle in the office and at home and refills it at the Hinkley Schmidt cooler over and over while my co workers spent 1.25 daily at the vending machine for tap water lolol)

All for us to consume the very same water that we as kids used to just drink right from hoses hooked up to the sides of our homes, at least were I came from we did here in Chicagoland. Admittedly maybe not so wisely, but yet never causing me or anyone I knew of any difficulties.

I'm not saying outlaw the bottles or the water, but possibly come up with a more environmentally sound method of delivering it night be a wise maneuver is all they are asking.

The new public enemy Number 1: bottled water:

Brietbart News "It's a hugely beneficial liquid in a slim cylinder of plastic, but for US environmentalists, it is the new public enemy number one: bottled water. With US bottled water sales growing nearly 10 percent annually -- and the trash from tossed containers climbing just as quickly -- calls for Americans to go back to drinking tap water have surged since the beginning of summer.

'This country has some of the best public water supplies in the world,' the New York Times said in an editorial earlier this month. 'Instead of consuming four billion gallons (15 billion liters) of water a year in individual-sized bottles, we need to start thinking about what all those bottles are doing to the planet's health.'"

As was pointed out at World Water Week in Stockholm on Monday, US personal consumption per capita, including water from all sources, hits 400 liters (106 gallons) each day -- compared to 10 liters (2.6 gallons) a person in developing countries.

And US consumers are drinking more bottled water by the day. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, growth in bottled water sales last year was 9.7 percent, making the total market worth about 11 billion dollars.

Bottled water in the United States does not mean mineral water, even if Americans grumble more and more about paying a high price to drink water with little to distinguish it continued

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