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Tip 52: Bottle Your Own Water
Janelle Sorensen
Friday, November 17, 2006
If you think you’re protecting yourself or your child from the “nasty pollutants” in tap water by drinking bottled water, think again. The EPA says, “Some bottled water is treated more than tap water, while some is treated less or not at all.”
The FDA, asserts that they “want bottled water to have a comparable quality to that of tap water”—which, of course, runs counter to the widely held public belief that bottled water is better. What happens to bottled water during months of storage and transport? Chemicals in the plastic can leach into the water. And, speaking of the plastic, around 1.5 million tons of plastic are used globally each year in water bottles, generating tons of toxic emissions for manufacturing.
Add in pollution from distribution and from discarding so many bottles and you’ve created a vicious cycle – people drinking bottled water because they’re afraid of tap water, but their consumption of bottled water only leads to more pollution ending up in our water. Save money and reduce the costs of pollution being placed on society by buying a good water filter and bottling your own in a reusable container.
You can find more information in an article published on emagazine.com
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Posted by BPA Free Bottles on 09/16/2009 at 12:01 PM
If you are going to “Bottle your own” be sure to use a BPA free water bottle. Some people use the aluminum bottles thinking that they are BPA free, they are not. Aluminum bottles have a BPA liner.
Stick to High Density Poly Ester or HDPE. A much safer material.