Bottled Water Is Unhealthy

After reading several articles about bottled water, and impact it has on our world, I'm going to encourage my entire family, friends, and my on-line friends to make the switch to filtered tap water.

Here in the United States, it takes 1.5 million barrels of crude oil just to make the bottles we use in one year.  When it comes to disposing of the bottles, not even 20% of the bottles are recycled. The rest of them end up cluttering up the earth or as air pollution, if they have been incinerated.

Bottled water isn't as highly regulated by the feds as our city water supplies. City water supplies have high standards for purity. Water filters like Brita take care of a lot of the impurities in the tap water. Ther pitcher style is inexpensive and super easy to use.  

I'm going to invest in a few kleen kanteensfor my reusable water bottles. They are stainless steel, and there is no leaching of harmful chemicals into my water.  You can find kleen kanteens at REI and Amazon.

Even if you don't invest in a good quality reusable water bottle, at the very least, make the commitment to stop buying bottled water in containers smaller than 1 gallon.