1. Bottled Water Effects on health, environment and personal finances
Beleslin Milivoj

2. Health Clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the
health of our
global community.

3. Health Studies show that consumers associate bottled water with
healthy living.

4. The truth is: Bottled water is not guaranteed to be any healthier than tap water!

5. Health
In fact, roughly 40 percent of bottled water begins as tap water.
Often the only difference is added minerals that have no marked health benefit.
The added minerals
are helpful in small amounts but may be dangerous in higher doses.

6. Cost
Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to ,000 times more!

7. Health The most commonly used plastic for making water
bottles is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is
derived from crude oil.

8. Cost Just in Europe Just in Europe 52,000,000,000 liters
of PET bottled water were produced
in 2004, using more than 35,000,000
barrels of oil,
enough to fuel more than 2 million
cars for a year!

9. Environment
In contrast to tap water, which is distributed through an energy-efficient infrastructure, transporting bottled water long distances involves creating unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.

10. Environment
To meet worldwide bottled water demand, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used each year.

11. Environment An astonishing 86 % of these bottles become
garbage or litter!*

12. Environment
San Gabriel River, Los Angeles

13. Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade!
Environment
Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade!

14. Environment In addition to the strains bottled water puts on our
ecosystem
through its
production
and transport, the rapid growth in
this industry means that communities where bottling plants are located apply
water extraction

15. Environment
Concentrated water extraction makes water tables in these communities drop quickly hence farmers, fishers, and others who depend on water for their livelihoods suffer greatly as a result!

16. Environment
Unfortunately, in a number of places, including Europe and the United States, there are more regulations governing
the quality of tap water than bottled water.

17. Environment is health–friendly as : In summary, tap water
In summary, tap water
is health–friendly as :
It is s not stored in (PET) bottles, made
of plastic derived from crude oil.
2. The minerals added to bottled water
may be dangerous in higher doses.
Doesn’t require burning massive
quantities of fossil fuels polluting the
air we breath and taking 1000 years to biodegrade.

18. Environment Tap water is environment –friendly as it:
Tap water is
environment –friendly as it:
Doesn’t use up tons of energy
Doesn’t create unnecessary garbage
...is distributed through an energy-efficient infrastructure.

19. Environment In summary, tap water is finance–friendly as it:
In summary, tap water is
finance–friendly as it:
Can cost up to 10,000 times less then bottled water!
Saves you money and lets you spend it on other useful stuff.

20. Health
OK, I am convinced now,
but how clean is the tap
water?

21. Health
Since tap water is not the same quality everywhere and may contain impurities, filtering tap water is generally recommended .

22. Solution Aquarion is a water filtering device that goes a step further
Aquarion is a water
filtering device that
goes a step further
and lets you consume
clean, ionized alkaline
water , filtered from
impurities and toxins,
such as heavy metals,
chlorine and pesticides.

23. Health
Remember that while minerals added to bottled water often have no marked health benefit and may be dangerous in higher doses, ionized alkaline water may restore healthy (pH) balance, that food additives, medications and foods itself may shift in the body towards the acidic.

24. Cost Also keep in mind that bottled water, in addition to damaging
the environment, can cost
up to 10,000 times more then
tap water!

25. Health
If a family of four spends 40 euros a month on bottled water, this amounts to 500 euros a year. When you invest into Aquarion water filter and ionizer, it takes only three years for your investment to pay off .

26. Health
From that day on you are drinking the best drinking water for free! ....and saving 1400 PET bottles a year! ...out of which 86% would end up as garbage polluting our planet!

27. Cost But that’s not all! When you share this health and environment
oriented philosophy with your
neighbour and he comes on board,
you are already in business to
pocket some really cool profits!
Let’s calculate...

28. Cost One neighbour - 500 Euros a year
Five neighbours Euros a year
...while saving 8400 PET bottles
a year... Now isn’t that cool? : )

29. Solution Visit www.calivita.com or talk to your local
Visit
or talk to your local
representative to find
out more about
Aquarion water filter
and ionizer.
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30. References & Sources
*According to the Container Recycling Institute, US data.
Source: 2006 Earth Policy Institute
Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain
Emily Arnold and Janet Larsen
Source: Pacific Institute