Think bottled water is healthier than municipal tap? Think again!
Bottled water should be available for emergency situations only. It is not a sustainable solution. Communities in developing countries need and deserve long term solutions. Filtration systems and utmost protection of precious water sources are viable long term solutions.
Bottled water corporations are succeeding at changing the very way people think about water. Though many bottled water brands come from the same source as public tap water, they are marketed as somehow more pure. What's more bottled water corporations sell water back to the public at thousands times the cost. Plastic bottles also require massive amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport. Billions of those bottles wind up in landfills each and every year.
By signing this petition you can help reverse this disturbing trend. Tens of thousands are supporting the efforts of progressive local officials to reduce the social impact and environmental harm of bottles water by banning bottled water within their municipalities and prioritizing public water systems.
"It struck me that all you had to do is take the water out of the ground and then sell it for more than the price of wine, milk or, for that matter, oil." - Past chairman of Perrier
"We Sell Water, so we have to be Clever" - Nestl Executive
Did you know...
Seventy-four percent of Americans drink bottled water, and one in five drinks only bottled water.
Worldwide, consumers spent $100 billion on bottled water in 2005.
Each year more than 4 billion pounds of PET plastic bottles end up in landfills or as roadside litter.
Making bottles to meet Americans's demand for bottled water required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil last year - enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year - and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
http://www.canadians.org/water/index.html
http://www.blueplanetproject.net/
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/companies.cfm - Lists Social & Environmental Impacts of Major Corporations
http://www.killercoke.org/bottledwater.htm - The Bottled Water Issue
http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org
Water is a Human Right, Not a Commodity!
