Water and Price
Do we take drinking water just for granted
- what can we do? According to
the National Sanitation Foundation:
- Drinking water
seems cheap, but only because we aren't paying attention.
- The average retail price
of one gallon of domestic drinking water ranges from $.80 to $1.20. A
five gallon delivered bottle of drinking water is $4.00 to $6.00.
- A
gallon of sparkling water is approximately $1.85. Smaller bottles may
be more expensive. A leading reason for the explosion in bottled water
sales is the public perception, fueled by heavy industry advertising,
that bottled water is pure and pristine, and thus a healthier choice
than tap water.
Where the drinking water is safe, bottled water is simply a luxury:
- Water runs from taps in our homes, or from fountains in public spaces.
- We hand out estimated $1
for a bottle of water, when there are basically identical alternatives
for pennies or even FREE. We can actually get a gallon of filtered water for only 10 cents!
- A gallon on
filtered tap water in our own homes will cost around 10¢ a gallon. if
the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our
monthly water bills would run $9,000.
Over half of all Americans (54 percent) drink bottled water:
- There are over 700 brands of bottled water produced by about 430 bottling facilities in the United States, a number that likely has grown since that time, because of the enormous expansion in bottled water sales.
- We drink a billion bottles of water a week, and we pay two or three or four times the cost of gasoline--for a product we have always gotten, and can still get, for free, from taps in our homes.
Suggestion:
What about saving that dollar instead, drink more tap water or carry a water portable filtration bottle. At the end of the month, send the money to someone who has real need for safe drinking water: S.A.V.E project
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