Articles Tagged with “Water”

18/02/2008: Bottled Water

Panorama has just run an exposé on bottled water — you can still watch it on iPlayer. As a rule, I tend not to buy bottled water, initially this was because it’s a waste of money, but in the last couple of years, having considered the environmental cost of bottled water, that is now a big justification too.

The obvious (to me) environmental problem with bottled water is that bottled water is transported hundreds, and sometimes thousands of miles, using carbon-hungry transport methods — ships and trucks mostly. By contrast, tap water is transported from a relatively local source (i.e. the reservoir)

But Panorama brought up another few environmental and moral reasons to avoid it:

• The plastic that makes the bottles needs to be produced from a large quantity of crude oil, both directly as a raw material for the polymers, and…