The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: Americans
drink around 50 billion bottles of water per year. Around 5000
water bottles are thrown away every second! The effects of our
consumption of bottled water are much farther-reaching than we
may have ever expected. From the communities that are affected
by the large corporations that come in to harvest their water,
to the towns were the plastic water bottles are manufactured, to
ocean animals who have to live with our Texas-sized plastic
garbage dump polluting their habitat. Drinking water from
plastic water bottles has both environmental and health impacts
to consider. There are many reasons to ditch disposable water
bottles and switch to using a reusbale water bottle filled with
water from your own home — here are just a few. You pay more for
a gallon of water than you do for a gallon of gas. It costs
companies about 6 to 8 cents to bottle a gallon of water, which
they then turn around and sell for 6 dollars, or more, per
gallon. For beverage corpora