Have you bottled it? How drinking tap water can help save you and the planet.
ISBN: 978-1-903060-41-4 - 21pp - 2006 | 4082Kb
Have you bottled it? How drinking tap water can help save you and the planet.
Despite bottled water costing around 500 times as much as tap water, analysts predict we will buy more than 2 billion litres this year. Are you going to "bottle out" of your responsibility to the planet, and carry on drinking increasing quantities of bottled water?
Despite bottled water costing around 500 times as much as tap water, analysts predict we will buy more than 2 billion litres this year. Are you going to "bottle out" of your responsibility to the planet, and carry on drinking increasing quantities of bottled water?
Report contents
Bottled water
- Drinking more and more
- Isn't bottled water better for you?
- Some potential health risks
- "Purer" than thou
- The environmental damage
- The price of image
The alternatives
- How much water do we need to drink?
- Tap water
- Tap water and your health
- Regulating the water companies
- The environmental benefits of tap water
- Other options
- Save water!
Where to find out more
Food Facts: A series of short reports on over a dozen different products, shows how people's shopping choices - as well as government policy - can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health.
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