Comments on: Bottled Water Problem: It’s Not Just The Bottle!

By: dan

dan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:26 +0000

Lifesaver jerrycans and water bottles are the best resource for disaster relief. They purify water and one jerrycan filter can produce 20,000 liters of clean water whereas it would require a plane and a semi to deliver the same amount in bottles. You can filter pond, stream, puddle, lake or dishpan water into pure drinking water.

By: Bottled vs Tap Water ~ What’s the Greenest?

Bottled vs Tap Water ~ What’s the Greenest? — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:32:10 +0000

[...] and also more eco-friendly. Bottled water poses several issues including water contamination, water extraction that often disrupts the ecosystem and the pollution caused by plastic [...]

By: Water Pipe Cleaner

Water Pipe Cleaner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:01:01 +0000

Thanks for this wonderful, comprehensive post. Water is a basic human right. We should not have to pay for clean water… this includes being taxed for our water supply. But to make Water Pipes clean we should think and get something better cleaner.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:09:27 +0000

Great article! Project Earth H2o is a great option for people looking for alternatives as well as awareness.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:29:42 +0000

There are strong moves to lower bottled water use in many places world wide. A professor of law in Singapore has been strongly active in trying to have many Asians revert to using water in your own bottle from home.

Banning is a bit silly in many ways.....especially in the tropics where access to water [ and out of a tap can be questionable] is very necessary, and having your own supply is tricky for visitors.

Be thoughtful and revert to what we all did before.....plan in advance and take your own!!

By: Sarah S

Sarah S — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:24:59 +0000

I just took the think outside the bottle pledge last week in Boston to choose tap over bottled.

I had never thought about how bottled water companies are changing the ways we think about water. I was shocked to learn about the impact that bottled water was having right here on communities here in the US.

You can take the pledge at http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org

By: Erica Schuetz

Erica Schuetz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:47:54 +0000

Hey, Beth–
Thanks for this wonderful, comprehensive post. Very well-said! I work here at Food & Water Watch (thanks for the shout-out, by the way) and bottled water is one of my particular pet peeves–and it's great to have bloggers like you helping spread this important message.
For anyone who hasn't already heard of Food & Water Watch, please check out our Take Back the Tap campaign at http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled.
Thanks again, keep up the good work!
-Erica at Food & Water Watch

By: Eco Yogini

Eco Yogini — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:08:13 +0000

I agree, for me it's less about the plastic (although this is significant) and more so about the social issues surrounding the privatization of water.
Water is a basic human right. We should not have to pay for clean water... this includes being taxed for our water supply.

Companies like 'Ethos' with starbucks are sickening in their manipulation of the public's views on bottled water.

By: Michael L. Neff

Michael L. Neff — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:59:33 +0000

I use glass water bottles around the house and office, and I use my stainless steel bottle for outdoor activities.

This site has the best deals on glass bottles and stainless steel bottles (their glass bottles are less than four bucks each!):

www.AmbrosiaWaterFilters.com

By: Indoor Kitty

Indoor Kitty — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:01:05 +0000

This is a question that doesn't apply to everyday bottle use. How do we provide safe, clean drinking water in disaster situations? We can avoid bottled water in our everyday lives, but bottlers will inevitably retreat to the nobility of their social safety net status. Glass is not appropriate for this situation because disasters are chaotic enough without the danger of broken bottles. My idea is for FEMA to contract with trucking companies that haul food in tankers (think milk.) In the event of a disaster, the companies divert their tankers to designated municipal water supplies, fill up and drive to the disaster area. Citizens can then fill up FEMA provided jerry cans and shelters can provide individuals with reusable bottles. Stockpiling empty, clean jerry cans and reusable bottles seems less expensive than stockpiling bottled water, which must be rotated. Cleaning the bottles over the course of disaster relief can be accomplished with a vinegar rinse. Pick apart my idea for its flaws, please. If Tide can roll in with the "Loads of Hope" truck, I think my tanker idea would work. However, I may be missing something.

Also, before buying bottled water while on vacation at a foul tasting water destination, try the ice machine. There's a good chance that the water is filtered. Its wasteful in a different way (energy to freeze the water,) but a bottle full of ice before you go to bed magically becomes a half bottle of water by morning. Add more ice and you're good to go.