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Bottled Water - Do we need it?See some facts, you will be surprised. - Bottled Water costs more than $1.50 per bottle. - That is 1900 times the price of tap water!Which means Bad News for your... --Wallet - As an average US citized spends over $400 every year on bottled Water. -- Health - Which can be damaged by toxic chemicals like Bisphenol-A(BPA, leached from Bottled water (BPA intake can also cause Cancerous Cells in your body.) --Environment - Which is Tainted by the Production, Transportation, Packaging and Disposal of plastic Bottled Water. In the year 2004 Bottled Water usage was marked as,- 26,000,000,000 Liters - 26,000,000,000, liters is Nearly 28,000,000,000 Plastic Bottles in a year. Of Which 86% that end up as garbage. --- Approx 1500 water bottles end up as garbage every second. --- 26,000,000,000 liters means, 17,000,000 barrels of oil that was used to produce those plastic bottles. -- That oil could have been enough to fuel about 100,000 cars for that year. -- 26,000,000,000 liters also contributes to An addition to 2,500,000 tons fo carbon dioxide that was produced in the manufacturing of the plastic bottle. AND $100,000,000,000 (One hundred Billion Dollars) - That is spent every year by consumers on Bottled Water. An amount like this even makes the Gederal Bilout amount look small... IF you only drink Bottled Water?Are you sure you knowl all the facts about bottled water? If you don't then lets just say you are in for a big surprise. -You spend Money.. -You pollute the Earth... - Risk polluting the Aquifier and other water bodies... - All for Bottled Water!?Surver shows that 35% of bottled water drinkers think that it is safer than Tap water. But this is not true,But the heat or temperatures the bottle goes, can leach out chemicals that can lead to Breast and other types of Cancers. Sources --- -http://www.earth911.com -http://www.earth-policy.org -http://us.oneworldnet -http://www.commondreams.org Hope this will be helpful for everyone.