The Story of Bottled Water

I knew drinking bottled water was fairly pointless when it is as good as free from the tap however Annie Leonard's short film opened my eyes to how big a problem bottled water is. For staters she explains that in studies around the world bottled water is constantly failing in taste test in comparison to tap water and yet people pay a massive 2000 times more to drink a lesser product. What also suprised me was the amount of bottled water that is consumed. People in the US can circle the world 5 times with the bottles of water they drink per week! Thats not even in a year! To make matters even worse Annie Leonard goes on to explain that a third of this bottled water is only filtered tap water anyway! That means that people are purchasing the exact same product they can get for free and are in fact just adding to landfills and polution. I thought bottles were usually recycled back into bottles however Annie shows that they are being recycled to lesser products which end up in landfill or get incinerated into pollution. I think its good that people are starting to realise the stupidity of bottled water and are reverting back to tap water. Hopefully this will progress and the amount of bottled water consumed will reduce dramatically saving peoples money and more importantly saving the environment.