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An estimated 40 billion plastic water bottled are tossed into landfills annually. As an example, in the State of California, more than 1 billion plastic water bottles end up in California's trash each year, taking up valuable landfill space, leaking toxic additives, such as phthalates, into the groundwater and taking 1,000 years to biodegrade. That means bottled water may be harming our future water supply.
Nearly 90% of plastic water bottles are not recycled, instead taking thousands of years to decompose. Buy a reusable container and fill it with tap water (via our Re`new Water Purification Systems, of course!) - a great choice for the environment, your wallet, and possibly your health. The EPA's standards for tap water are more stringent than the FDA's standards for bottled water.
Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not regulate 51 known water contaminants.
(www.foodandwaterwatch.org)
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
According to the National Resources Defense Council, in a scientific study in which more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of water were tested, about one-third of the bottles contained synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic.
(www.nrdc.org)
Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil.
(CBS News)
There are estimates that from five hundred thousand to seven million people get sick per year from drinking tap water.
(Erik Olson, Deputy Staff Director of Barbara Boxerʼs Environmental and Public Works Committee (EPW))
Californiaʼs water supply is running out – it has about 20 years of water left in the state.
(Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant and co-author of Blue Gold, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians)
There are over 116,000 human-made chemicals that are finding their way into public water supply systems.
(William Marks, author of Water Voices from Around the World, FLOW)
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