Some quick facts on the of the problem of bottled water

Some quick facts on the gravity of the problem of bottled water

• Only 1 in 5 water bottles are recycled.

• 90% of the cost of bottled water is for the bottle itself.

• Plastic water bottles, that take just three minutes to drink, take 400 to 1000 years to decompose.

• Drinking bottled water has the same impact on the environment as driving a bike for 3 kilometers.

• 22% of tested bottled water brands contained chemical contaminants at levels above strict health limits.

• Producing and delivering a litre of bottled water can emit hundreds of times more greenhouse gases than a litre of tap water.

• It requires three times the amount of water to produce a plastic bottle than it does to fill it. source: AmrutDhara, www.amrutdhara.in,