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Dont Drink Bottled Water
Dont drink bottled water and dont let your children
drink it. If youre on a city council or are a government
official, dont waste taxpayers money buying it. If youre
the manager of a restaurant, dont serve it. If you work at
a school or college, stop using it. Why?
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Using
bottled water sends the false message that municipal tap
water is unsafe. More than a quarter of bottled water
comes from municipal sources, anyway.
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It takes oil
to make those bottles. According to the California-based
Pacific Institute, the energy required to make one
bottle is the equivalent of filling it Ό full of oil.
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Most bottles
are not recycled, and end up in the landfill.
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It takes
more energy to ship and truck them around.
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Why pay
1,000 times more for bottled water when it costs a penny
a gallon from your tap, giving money to the water
corporations as if it was Christmas?
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Drinking
bottled water is making our children grow up with the
habit.
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Can we
really trust the bottles not to leach their chemicals?
The City of Los
Angeles has not allowed the use of city funds to buy bottled
water since 1987.
San Francisco
and Seattle have just banned its purchase by city
departments and agencies. Chicago has placed a 5 cent tax on
every bottle to discourage its use. All Illinois state
agencies have been banned from buying it. Berkeley School
District has stopped providing it. And students on campuses
across Canada are creating bottled-water-free zones.
Its OK for
emergencies but otherwise, lets junk it. |
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