Sustainability
Water Use in Canada
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is supporting the long term balance of our resources. It means using only what we need today while ensuring there will be enough for future generations.
Bottled Water: Is it Sustainable?
Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year. And that’s not even including the oil used for transportation.
banthebottle.net
Bottles used to package water take over 1,000 years to bio-degrade and if incinerated, they produce toxic fumes. It is estimated that over 80% of all single-use water bottles used in the U.S. simply become "litter."
valleywater.org
The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
"It is another product we do not need. Bottled water companies are wasting resources and exacerbating climate change. Transport is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, and transporting water adds to that. We could help reduce these damaging effects if we all simply drank water straight from the tap."
Dr. Michael Warhurst, Friends of the Earth
Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article344959.ece