As much as bottle water seems like a pristine source of clean water. Is it really? First of isn't it a way of monopolizing our precious yet abundant source of water. And by bottling them it is creating plastic waste. Why? Because plastic bottle can only be recycled 7 times after which they become so down graded that they are no longer suitable for use, and of course they end up at the dump. polluting our environment.

Also much of the plastic bottles leaches hormone disrupting chemicals into the water. So they are actually not very healthy.


Water would be clean if we didn't dump so much junk into it.

I remember growing up there were faucets for drinking water in public parks, hallways of bldgs, department stores, etc.
Whatever happened to them. I rarely see them.

Maybe some people would find find carrying water bottle too bulky. Here's an intermediate solution for such:

Platypus collapsible water bottle:
www.rei.com/product/617927

I can think of a zero waste solution other than carrying a glass jar that is 100% recyclable.
The next best thing would be to find a durable enough water container that can be bought, and used almost indefinitely hence not becoming a waste.