There are a few items that everybody does every now and again that does not keep any cash or aid the environment. Buying bottled water is one of those things.

There are so many supplementary things that you can do than pay money for a bottle of water with your cash (or two if you’re buying Evian or Fuji). In my opinion, bottled water is an expensive fad that the bottling companies make more than $30 billion worldwide on. In 2006, bottled water surpassed coffee and milk in volume sales just behind sodas.

One of the things on the subject of purchasing bottled water is that the majority of bottled water in reality comes directly from the faucet of the bottling corporations. In 2005, the NRDC tested 1,000 bottles of 103 subsidiaries that made bottled water and discovered that a number of of the subsidiaries were tainted, actually about a third of the bottled waters had numbers of contagion. The chemicals and other contaminants that were found in the water included organic chemicals and ARSENIC (in one sample that exceeded limits that are considered allowable under the bottled water industry).

If you?re not getting chemicals in your water then you?re likely getting some additional sort of bacteria based on the truth that this faucet water sits in the container for months (if not longer). I have really viewed images from blogs across the internet of ?stuff? that have shown up inside bottled water (as well as Vitamin Water) that just look sickening; and the majority of it comes from the water settling and sitting on a shelf for months at a time.

Not only could bottled water be potentially harmful to you because of the levels of contamination, it could also be quite harmful to the environment. Most people do not recycle their plastic bottles, and they take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to break down in a landfill. If they are recycling, then it wastes even more fossil fuels to actually break down the plastic to recycle it.

So what is the alternative?

Well, my family has started to keep money (and the natural world) by purchasing a Brita pitcher and making our own ?bottled? water by using BPA-free bottles. If you don?t wish to try to discover a BPA free plastic, an aluminum bottle will do the identical trick. You can make GALLONS of bottled water on one filter, and in truth, the filters only cost between $6-$10 apiece. If your relatives enjoys the deficiency of tang in bottled water, I?m sure that filtered water will as well get their consideration, and it will end up saving you a lot of cash in the end.