Bottled water

This interesting article takes a look at the water bottling industry. Fresh water,so necessary for survival, accounts for just 1% of the water on this planet. Plastic bottled water has become more and important. In fact, Spain is the fourth largest producer of bottled water and the the fifth largest consumer of this product which is the third largest industry in the world after oil and coffee. What is worse is the fact that to make a 1.5 litre bottle of water you need to use 8 litres of fresh water and that doesn`t ensure that it`s healthier, in fact, the opposite could be the case! So why should we drink bottle water? The simple answer is that we shouldn`t. In fact, we should do our best to ensure that in the towns there are plenty of fountains with free, clean drinking water and that instead of buying water we should bring our own water in a flask and when we`re in a restaurant we should all decline bottled water and ask for tap water in a pitcher. It is this campaign in favour of tap water in restaurants  launched by the Bizkaia Water Board that we in BBT have taken up as part of our own Tap Water campaign!