{"id":3006,"date":"2011-11-08T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2011-11-16T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:50:29","slug":"stop-consumption-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Stop the Unnecessary Consumption of Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stop<\/a>Bottled water may seem innocent enough on the surface\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dit\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s much healthier than soda, after all. But in fact, bottled water creates a massive environmental hazard: Bottled water production for the United States alone consumes 17 million barrels of oil<\/a>, and 80 percent of the 50 billion bottles sold each year are not recycled.<\/p>\n

Another surprising fact? Nearly half of all bottled water is simply distilled tap water<\/a>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe same stuff you can get for almost free from your own faucet. In fact, most tap water is cleaner than bottled water: Municipal water is subject to strict testing and regulations, while bottled water is not. As a result, many brands of bottled water are contaminated with chemicals or bacteria<\/a>. Even so, more than half of all Americans purchase bottled water<\/a>, spending up to 10,000 times more per gallon than they would for tap water.<\/p>\n

Want to break the bottled water cycle? Here are some ways to do that:<\/h2>\n