Bottled water is one of the biggest industries on the planet. It's also one of the biggest threats to it. Most just don't know the truth of the situation. Here they are! In just a few, short slides.
7. “Bottled water is the most
environmentally responsible
consumer product in the world.”
(They had to remove this advert)
Nestlé said:
“… most water bottles... are
recycled.”
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9. In America, the UK and even in South Africa the quality controls on
tap water are far more stringent than those on bottled water, which
are almost non-existent.
Tap water is just as safe as
bottled water…
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10. Is tested for ecoli
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Required to provide
source
Required to provide
quality reports
Can still be distributed when
standards not met
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LINK HERE!
11. • Nearly one in five tested waters contained more
bacteria than allowed under microbiological-purity
"guidelines”
• Four waters violated the federal bottled water
standards for excessive fluoride
and coliform
bacteria
• In eight cases arsenic
was found at a level of
potential health concern
A recent NRDC study on bo led water found that…
LINK
HERE!
20. Plastic is choking the planet
(A lot of which comes from the bottled water industry)
7.
21. In America alone, 5 million plastic bottles
are used, and discarded, every hour
(This image is a portion of that amount)
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22. Filthy Plastic Packaging
Only
1 out of 6 bottles get
recycled,
which
means
5 out of 6 end
up
in
landfills…
Probably
in
India…
For
the
next
1000 years or
so…
23. We could be (literally) breathing
a lot easier
8.
24. Nasty, smelly air
Creating plastic for the water
industry results in
2.5 million tons
of Carbon Dioxide emissions
annually.
That’s almost 1/10th of all
the CO2 produced every year
26. Dirty, dirty oil
The
amount
of
oil
needed
to
produce
one
bo-le
of
water?
Fill
a
quarter of that
bottle with
oil
–
that’s
how
much.
The
amount
of
water
required?
Three
times the
amount
you’ll
drink
from
it.
Oil needed to make
one wee water bottle
27. In fact, the oil used to produce
those cheap, one-time-use
plastic bottles for your water
For a year.
Vroom…
could fuel a million cars.
29. San Francisco is making the change
San
Francisco’s
Board
of
Supervisors
are
ready
to
enact
one
of
the
strictest
bans
on
water
in
the
naCon.
Recently,
the
proposal
became
law,
and
plasCc
water
bo-les
smaller
than
21
ounces
will
no
longer
be
allowed
on
city
property
starCng
Oct.
1,
2014.
LINK
HERE!
30. Water is a finite resource, and there
are those who are (literally)
10.
dying for a drink
31. There are almost a billion people across the
globe without access to clean water;
that’s 1 in 8
32. Reading at a normal speed, 5 children
have died from a water related issue, since you
started this
33. To the bottled water industry’s
privatisation-for-profit of the
most basic human necessity
(Ok, not all of it, but a fairly big chunk. And that chunk could be put to
better use)
Where do you suppose
all that water is going?
36. • Save money!
• Save the planet!
• Save the lives of small African children!
(kidding – sort of)
Simply get your fresh and clean
water from a tap
37. 2. Find out more. Get motivated!
These links are awesome:
The Story of Stuff: Bottled Water
Breaking the Set takes on Nestlé
(including their response)
‘Bottled Life’ documentary
trailer
Charitywater.org on the water
crisis
39. We drink our water from a tap, so someone else has a tap for their water
@taptapwater Facebook.com/taptapwater
www.taptapwater.org
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