Skip bottled water, wellcome filtered water :D

Fresh, Healthy and Hygienic, that’s the persuade word used by marketer to convince us to buy bottled water. Bottled water are fresh mineral water, taken from mountain fresh water with high filtering technology keep the mineral water fresh, healthy and hygienic. That is what we used to hear about bottled water in many advertisement. But the fact is, bottled water are very bad both for environment and our health. It’s is expensive, wasteful, pollute and bad for your health.

Bottled water had become trend among us, many advertisement convince us about how healthy it is with scientific evidence, research, etc. Behind this “evidence” the manufacture hide the evidence about the danger of both the bottle and the mineral water.

Bottled water is very harmful for us and the environment, here the reason for you to leave bottled water :

Bottled water is expensive

Consuming bottled water is cost very much, every year we wasted about Rp 2.800.000,- ($280) by consuming bottled water. It is cost too much for water in Indonesia! While using water purify just cost about Rp 500.000,-($50) for several years.

Bottle rubbish are polluted

I ever saw a bottled water ad that say crushing (squeeze) the bottle after use are eco friendly. But lately i found that both crushed or not, bottle rubbish make environment polluted. While the plastic used to bottle beverages is of high quality and in demand by recyclers, over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away. This bottles are caused harm for the environment, the float in many city in Indonesia are caused by rubbish that clogging drains expecially plastic rubbish.

Furthermore, plastic waste is now at massive volume and it is spin endlessly in the world's major oceans. This represents a great risk to marine life, killing birds, turtle and fish. Stop consuming bottled water are smart idea to save this marine life. :/

Wasted oil resourse

Manufacture of bottled water are requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce. Since it is bottled, the distribution are using land and sea transportation (truck and ship) which mean more oil to waste. It is wasted our oil resources...! :/

Bottled water are not saver than tap water

“taken directly from tropical waterfalls and mountain top” this is the marketer say about the bottled water. But in fact, the water are not safer than tap water! About 25% of all bottled water comes from tap water and if you have ever seen a bottled water manufacture located near city, they use tap water. The diferences just the bottled water is bottled and tap water not.

Bottled water are harm for our health

Bottled water contain dangerous contaminants like disinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue, and pain medication which harm for our health and the plastic bottle contaminate water with Bispenol A. Bispenol A is a synthetic chemical that interferes with the body’s natural hormonal messaging system. According to the Environment California Research & Policy Center, which reviewed 130 studies on the topic, Bispenol A has been linked to breast and uterine cancer, an increased risk of miscarriage, and decreased testosterone levels. (http://www.alternet.org).

So what is the solution?

Leave bottled water and switch to filtered water or tap water!

Why?

Filtered water have more benefit than bottled water. Consume filtered water or tap water = no plastic bottles = no plastic pollution = eco friendly! And here another benefit consuming filtered water :D

1. Water filter provide better tasting and better smelling drinking water by removing chlorine and bacterial contaminants.
2. The purchase of a countertop filter results in a source of clean, healthy water that costs much less than bottled water.
3. Water filters greatly reduce the risk of rectal cancer, colon cancer, and bladder cancer by removing chlorine and chlorine byproducts from drinking water.
4. Use water filter allow us to control quality of our water.
5. Use filtered water/ pet water easy to use
6. Saving our money, filtered water cost less than bottled water.
7. A water filter provides clean, healthy water for cooking, as well as drinking, at the convenience of tap water.
8. Some water filter do not need any electricity (saving energy)

So let’s stop consuming bottled water and start a new healthy life and environment :D

Keed doing green and thinking green! :D