But I do remember thinking that it was crazy!
That’s more than 246 million gallons a week and an increase of nearly 9 percent over 2015 volume.
Around the world, we now drink as much bottled water as we do packaged milk.
And bottled water now surpasses carbonated soft drinks as the largest beverage category in the United States, a major milestone, with all but 1 percent of it sourced domestically.
Even though we are less than 5 percent of the world’s population, Americans consume about 60 percent of the world’s bottled water.The vast majority of U.S. bottled water companies are small, community-based businesses using local water sources and distributing their products within an average radius of 300 miles from their bottling facilities.
All of these brands are purified (filtered) tap water which generally sells for about $1.00 for a 16.9 to 20 ounce, single-serving plastic bottle, making water sold in single-serving plastic bottles worth twice as much as gasoline.
Then there’s the energy that’s required to manufacture all of those plastic bottles.
Cornell University, along with several other colleges and universities across the country have advanced student-piloted ‘Take Back the Tap’ initiatives; education and awareness campaigns to reduce bottled water consumption and the associated costs, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s estimated that bottled water costs the Cornell University campus community $640,000 annually.
The same volume of filtered tap water would cost just $1,000.

PARTS of Britain were today left without water in the midst of the summer heatwave saw emergency bottled water handed out to thousands of homes.
Properties in Guildford, Surrey, saw their taps run dry and some schools in the town were also forced to close.
F Stop Press F Stop Press There were similar shortages 15 miles away in Haslemere as temperatures reached 27C in the latest day of scorching sunshine.
Thames Water aware since 10pm last night but can’t fix it."
Another dad added: "Over 12 hours no water at home.
This is totally unacceptable in 2018 to not have running water within a home with two young children."
Thames Water spokesman tweeted: "GU1 and GU2 customers may be experiencing low pressure or no water this morning after a technical issue on our network.
Twitter Twitter Twitter TRNSMT weather will see temperatures soar to 25C with Scottish heatwave set to last another WEEK "We’re pumping more water into the network to help restore your supply while we work to repair the technical issue on our network."
Severn Trent Water said low pressure issues which left some customers without water earlier today have been resolved and customers should see their services return to normal.
A hosepipe ban has been put in place in Northern Ireland and a number of water companies have asked households to cut back on their usage to avoid an outright ban.

It’s year 3 and Flint residents are still using bottled water for their daily needs.
Recently, the governor decided that the state would no longer supply them bottled water.
Imagine the boost to the economy if water heater manufacturers got an order for 100,000 tanks.
Again, more jobs created.
The only boost to the economy was to makers of bottled water (I should have bought their stock) and plastic recycling centers.
How many bottles of water does it take to do a load of laundry?
Puerto Rico is an island that got flooded.
It’s an island, there were no roads to transport anything.
Too bad we don’t have Navy ships capable of carrying helicopters and pallets of food, water and basic medical supplies — Navy ships that could have been waiting in the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Considering we just had a hurricane slam into Texas, you’d think the response in Puerto Rico, an island, would not have been so asinine.

You can’t know about my role in this crisis without knowing about who I am and where I come from.
[Editor’s note: The interaction below refers to a car accident Hanna-Attisha was in when she was five years old.]
Earther: The last burst of national news on Flint happened when the state stopped doling out bottled water.
But there’s a lot of folks who don’t trust what’s coming out of their faucet, even when it’s filtered.
Earther: From the book, you talk about how the trauma in Flint is a toxic stress.
Earther: Can you tell me more about environmental justice, and how it has manifested in Flint since the water crisis?
Hanna-Attisha: Flint already had suffered from environmental injustices in regard to industrial pollution and manufacturing.
[It’s] exactly like the trauma of the children of Flint.
As a pediatrician, we know what it does to children.
Hanna-Attisha: Flint is a story where folks got out of their silos and worked together to open their eyes and also to find that power within themselves to make a difference.

But I do remember thinking that it was crazy!
Around the world, we now drink as much bottled water as we do packaged milk.
And bottled water now surpasses carbonated soft drinks as the largest beverage category in the United States; a major milestone; with all but 1% of it sourced domestically.
single-serving plastic bottle, making water sold in single-serving plastic bottles worth twice as much as gasoline.
And one water pitcher filter can produce 40 gallons of freshly-filtered water, or the equivalent of more than 300 16.9-ounce bottles.
More-accurately identified as the Pacific trash vortex, it extends well beneath the ocean surface and spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.
Cornell University, along with several other colleges and universities across the country, have advanced student-piloted ‘Take Back the Tap’ initiatives; education and awareness campaigns to reduce bottled water consumption and the associated costs, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s estimated that bottled water costs the Cornell University campus community $640,000 annually.
The same volume of filtered tap water would cost just $1,000.
Photos, from above hydration station provided; Pacific trash vortex illustration courtesy www.marinedebris.noaa.gov.

California’s corrections department is spending $46,000 a month to buy bottled water for inmates and staff at a prison in Tracy where it opened a state-of-the-art water treatment plant eight years ago.
News reports on the 2010 unveiling of a $32 million water treatment plant characterized the department as providing the cleanest, best water in the state to prison inmates.
I’m not a robot reCAPTCHA Privacy – Terms When it’s down, salts and metals can accumulate to such a level that the prison violates state standards for wastewater discharge.
The new state budget includes $2 million for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to begin designing a brine concentration system.
In the meantime, the department must provide bottled water to inmates and staff whenever the brine concentration system is down to comply with an order from the Central Valley Regional Water Control Board.
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Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the corrections department, said the system the state is designing to replace the brine concentrator is intended to be easier to operate and repair.
The department paid a $2.3 million penalty last year to resolve the citations, with $1.2 million going to the water board and $1.1 million going to a nonprofit organization that is carrying out some water quality improvement projects in the San Joaquin Valley.

Christ’s Table is looking for donations to help ensure everyone who needs water has access to it.
Accuweather noted highs will be hovering around 90 through Thursday, and Executive Director Keely Warden said a cooler with bottled water is stocked in the dining room at Christ’s Table.
Christ’s Table will have people on site between 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily.
People wanting to donate water can come down the alley between Sixth and Seventh Streets and buzz the back buzzer, and staff will help unload the donations.
Christ’s Table serves thousands of meals per month to those in need from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
"Hydration is important, and once you become dehydrated, it’s hard to get back to where you need to be," Warden said.
"We’ve had the cooler out for the past few weeks and will keep it stocked since it’s supposed to be another rough week.
We encourage anyone who needs it to come in."
Warden said the homeless population does a great job of sharing and helping each other.
"They don’t all come here so the ones who do will make sure to share it with people who need it.

FLINT, MI — Flint Community Schools officials will ask "critical community and corporate partners" to supply district buildings with water jugs to start the 2018-2019 school year.
"The district has secured funding for clean drinking water through the fall of 2018," Board of Education President Diana Wright said in an email statement to MLive-The Flint Journal.
Clare Liening, a spokeswoman for the district, said the plan is to use water jugs, secured from donations, next year "until the district and its partners deem the water to be safe for drinking."
Flint students have been supplied bottled water since before the city’s water crisis was federally recognized as an emergency in January 2016, and it has relied on bottled water donations from corporations including Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestle Waters and PepsiCo.
In April, the state Department of Environmental Quality reported its most recent testing from FCS buildings showed more than 4 percent of water samples had elevated levels of lead.
Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for the DEQ, said testing is continuing in Flint school buildings and updated information is expected to be released in late July or early August.
Brown said water fountains and water coolers in city schools have been replaced with materials that are compliant with the 2014 lead-free standards, including materials going all the way back to shutoff valves.
The school district has been flushing its water lines for 5 minutes a day since May, according to the DEQ.
The flushing is intended to get fresh water to all parts of the building so that the orthophosphate can coat the pipes."
FCS turned off tap water for students during the water crisis, and 2015 testing showed toxic lead levels at faucets and drinking fountains in multiple buildings.

But I do remember thinking that it was crazy!
That’s more than 246,000,000 gallons a week and an increase of nearly 9 percent over 2015 volume.
And bottled water now surpasses carbonated soft drinks as the largest beverage category in the United States — a major milestone — with all but 1 percent of it sourced domestically.
Even though we are less than 5 percent of the world’s population, Americans consume about 60 percent of the world’s bottled water.
single-serving plastic bottle, making water sold in single-serving plastic bottles worth twice as much as gasoline.
According to a Feb. 2018 Food & Water Watch report titled “Take Back the Tap,” nearly 64 percent of the water bottled in the United States comes from public water supplies.
To run tap water through an in-line, faucet-mounted and/or pitcher-style water filter at home costs about $.002 per gallon.
Cornell University, along with several other colleges and universities across the country, have advanced student-piloted “Take Back the Tap” initiatives; education and awareness campaigns to reduce bottled water consumption and the associated costs, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s estimated that bottled water costs the Cornell University campus community $640,000 annually.
The same volume of filtered tap water would cost just $1,000.

Severn Trent Water has re-opened bottled water sites in the Rugby area as a precaution.
Last night, residents in Rugby experienced water supply issues.
The company says that they are continuing to work on the service reservoir by bringing in water from other areas to help refill the pipes, as well as bringing in tankers to inject water directly into its network.
While the company says that everyone has a water supply at the moment, they say that the demand in the Rugby area is still very high.
In order to help avoid any further issues tonight (Saturday 30 June), Severn Trent are urging residents to only use the water that they need.
They are also re-opening bottled water stations as a precautionary measure in these locations: The bottled water stations will be open until 10pm tonight (Saturday 30 June).
Severn Trent are also specifically asking people to: Put garden sprinklers away – a sprinkler can use as much as 1,000 litres of drinking water in just one hour.
Take a shower rather than a bath – It uses 40 litres less water and it’s quicker.
Avoid washing cars, but if it is necessary, use a bucket and sponge rather than a hose.
Severn Trent has also apologised to those residents in Rugby who were affected by the water supply issues last night.