In the US, 17m barrels of oil are needed to produce the plastic to meet annual bottled water demand. Bottled water in the UK is at least 500 times more expensive than tap water.
This legislation would help protect the state’s water resources, helping keep the limited freshwater supplies in the state. It would ban the extraction of local water supplies in plastic bottles shipped out of watersheds and around the country.
A study examining 11 brands of bottled water sold around the world has found that nearly every sample tested was contaminated by plastic particles.
As communities around the world promote refill stations and water fountains over bottled water, it's worth revisiting a fact about bottled water: most of it is literally the same water we get out of our faucets.
