There is no doubt to the health benefits of regulary drinking water and staying hydrated. Many people meet that responsibilty by schlepping around a water bottle or keeping their favorite brand by their side at work. According to a recent study, that water bottle costs about 2000 times more than what comes out of the faucet and, often times, isn’t any better for you. John Ridley comments on Americans’ $9 billion dollars-a-year obsession with plastic encased H2O in this Sideways.
- Interactive: Water World, compares U.S water cost and consumption to the rest of the world
- Water Fact Sheet, Pacific Institute
- Comparative Bottled Water Pricing, Pacific Institute (pdf)
- LADWP Annual Water Quality report
- California Dept. of Conservation-Division of Recycling
- Container Recycling Institute
- Drinking water information, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
April 6th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Right on!