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Peter Gleick: We need a “local water” movement

Posted by: Maven on May 27, 2009 at 7:29 am

From Peter Gleick’s City Brights Blog:

More and more restaurateurs are shifting to encourage healthy foods and sustainable agriculture grown nearby – a campaign many call “local food.” It is time to launch what I’ll call a “local water” campaign to encourage consumers to turn away from bottled water and back toward local sources of supply.

Bottled water is convenient. And we’re increasingly being told to fear our tap water. But there is a serious cost to bottled water, both economically and environmentally. Economically, bottled water is a thousand times more expensive than tap water (if you pay around $1 per cubic meter at home, or around $1000 an acre-foot, which as my previous post showed was not unusual, and $1 for a liter of bottled water, also not unusual).

Environmentally, bottled water has many costs, from the energy cost of making the bottle and producing the final product, to the cost of transporting it, to the costs of disposing (one way or another) of the billions of bottles we drink in the U.S. every year. That leads to today’s Water Number…

…. which you can find out by reading the rest of Peter’s post by clicking here.

May 27, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water

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