Facts support choosing tap water
Re: Bottled water doesn’t compete with tap water, Letters, Nov 16.
I was surprised to read a personal response from one of Canada’s largest bottled water producers to the recent article highlighting the growing movement among Canadian citizens to stop buying bottled water.
I wanted to provide the following response:
As much as 25 per cent of bottled water is simply tap water sold back to us at 2,000 times the price (source: Polaris Institute).
In some municipalities as many as 80 per cent of plastic bottles are not recycled which leads to more than 10 billion plastic bottles ending up in our community landfills (source: Canadian Federation of Students).
According to recent estimates, the Canadian bottled water industry uses as much as 1.5 million barrels of oil a year for production and distribution of a product that for the vast majority of Canadians is not safer than the water that they can get from their tap (source: Polaris Institute).
In Nanaimo we have had access to safe clean drinking water for over 100 years and our tap water is tested daily (annual water quality reports are available at www.nanaimo.ca).
To date, almost 100 cities have moved to eliminate the sale of bottled water in their facilities, several colleges and universities have chosen to stop selling bottled water on their campuses and on April 26, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter committed to stop using bottled water in provincial facilities.
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