Bottled water hurting environment and your wallets
Would you pay $30,000 for a sandwich? What if I told you that the bread is the healthiest bread available, flown in halfway across the world from the finest farmers? What if I gave it to you in a nice plastic box, keeping the sandwich clean and requiring nothing more than being thrown away after you use it?
Would you buy this sandwich? Probably not. You can get a sandwich at your local deli for about one five-thousandth of my price.
So why do we pay that much more for bottled water? We have readily available tap water which costs us on average $0.002 per gallon, yet we spend upwards of $1.00 for a 16-oz bottle of water. Sure, no one claims that the water from your tap comes from artisan springs in Fiji, but they aren’t demanding that you pay five thousand times more for the water either.
Bottled water companies very cleverly market their product, convincing consumers water from mountains in remote places is superior to tap water. In reality, the water quality is about the same. Bottled water is regulated far less strictly than tap water.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/07/29/bottled_water_hurting_environm.aspx
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