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The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.
It takes 17 million barrels of oil per year to make all the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. alone. That's enough oil to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year.
In 2007, Americans consumed over 50 billion single serve bottles of water; between 30 and 40 million single serve bottles went into landfills each year.
Antimony, which is found in PET plastic bottles, in small doses can cause dizziness and depression; in larger doses it can cause nausea, vomiting and death.

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University of Vermont Agrees to Ban Bottled Water, Gets Backlash from IBWA

Date: February 13th, 2012 | Author: Tomás Bosque
Posted in News |

In an effort to be more environmentally-friendly, the University of Vermont plans to stop selling bottled water on campus by 2013.

In preparation, water-bottle filling stations will be set up around campus that allow students to simply fill up their own water bottles in lieu of needing to make a purchase. As many as 75 water fountains on the campus will be converted to water refilling stations.

The changes are the result of a student-led effort.

“We wanted people to think about why they’re purchasing bottled water,” Greg Francese, president of the school’s Vermont Student Environmental Program, or VSTEP, told The Vermont Cynic. “The way we’ve done that is basically just by educating people about why you can get virtually the same product for free out of a water fountain.”

Specifically, the sale of water bottles on campus will stop on January 1, 2013. The move means that the school will not renew its contract with Coca-Cola, which had sole (more…)

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