[LINK] The true cost of bottled water
rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Wed Feb 7 19:39:24 AEDT 2007
Stagger me!
We do buy bottled water, but mostly for the bottles ... we refill them
endlessly for bushwalking, generally half-filled in the freezer and
topped up from the tap on the morning.
I have *never* understood the bottled water thing ... even a finding
that bottled waters often contain *more* foreign substances (except
chlorine) than the obsessively-filtered Warragamba variety (Choice a
couple of years ago?) didn't shake the idea that taps are "dirty"
somehow. I think it's an infantile thing ... everybody can get water
from that tap, but *this* water is *mine*.
And somehow "this is mine" seems always to be associated with stupid
waste...
RC
Kim Holburn wrote:
> http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-exotic-bottled-
> water-002401.php
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> http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/pablo_calculate.php
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>> Over at Triple Pundit, Sustainability Engineer and MBA Pablo Päster
>> has done a thorough and exhaustive study of the cost of bring a
>> litre of Fiji Water to America. He starts with the production of the
>> bottle in China, taking the bottle blanks to Fiji, and confirming
>> that it takes more water to make the bottle than it actually holds.
>> He then transports the bottle to the States by ship. Not even
>> including the distribution in the States, the numbers are absolutely
>> staggering.
>>
>> In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram
>> bottle of Fiji water consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons)
>> .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562
>> grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds).
>>
>> Twenty-six times as much water used to make it than you actually
>> drink. As much fuel to make it as there is water in the bottle.
>> Staggering is an understatement.
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