Sandra Keros
Americans buy something like
1 billion bottles of water a week. A billion!
2. Media reports a
floating water bottle garbage dump twice the size of Texas off the Pacific Coast.
3. Bottle plastic off-gases dangerous hormone-altering BPA chemicals into the water it encases and the manufacturing of the bottles leach cancer-causing phlalates into the environment.
4. Eight out of ten plastic bottles become
landfill waste.
5. Some
municipal water supplies are cleaner than bottled.
After my own personal experience of toxicity from heavy metals and awareness of how environmental chemicals can affect body organs (thyroid, among many others), you take your chances drinking tap water. That's why when I go to a restaurant I always ask for filtered water and how it is filtered (reverse osmosis); Brita filters are not good enough
against municipal water contaminants such as prescription drugs, pesticides, chlorine, chloramine and other chemicals.
In addition, Lead solder used to attach municipal pipes to homes and buildings can
leach lead and pipes within your own home can leak impurities.
I bring my own water with me wherever I go, save the environment and $$! At home I have a
n under-counter Multi-Pure water filter system for drinking and cooking and use shower and bath filters for bathing. I also have three different size dishwasher-friendly stainless steel Kleen Kanteens
from Rainbow Grocery - 12-oz (purse), 27-oz. (running) and 40-oz (if
I'm gone all day) - for running around town. However, things aren't as convenient when dining out with friends or traveling. In that instance, I
opt for bottled water from a glass container and drink from plastic as
a last resort (airports).
"Neat-o" $5 portable solution: bamboo charcoal chunks, available at Boulettes Larder.
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