Bottled Water 10,000 Times as Expensive as Tap Water & Not Regulated (discussion)
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Bottled water is a high environmental-impact product, which is not regulated like municipal water reserves that feed tap water, and can cost as much as 10,000 times per volume as much as tap water. Nevertheless, aggressive and often misleading marketing campaigns have made bottled water one of the most significant rising trends in American and European consumer sales.
The degree of financial waste going into the bottled-water industry is matched by the unnecessary waste in non-biodegradable artificial polymers, which if discarded and not recycled often wind up contaminating ocean waters. Ocean currents have resulted in the dense concentration of plastic residue in what is now known as “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas.[1] The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of suspended plastic and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography because it consists of very, very small pieces, almost invisible to the naked eye [2] and most of its contents are suspended beneath the surface of the ocean. [3]
What can we do to restore order to the pricing for clean water, and help extend reliable, environmentally sustainable, municipal water resources to remote areas affected by chronic fresh water scarcity?
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