Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Does the benifits of drinking more water outweigh the negatives of the landfills filled with billions of discarded bottles, the huge amount of pollution created?
|
Why are the bottles going to the landfill? Does Calgary lack a recycling program?
Anyhow, I was watching a news clip with Margaret Trudeau (chairperson for WaterCan, a group dealing with Canadian and International water issues). She said that people should avoid drinking bottled water on social justice reasons. I'm not going to get the wording right, but the gist of it was that if people have a budget for bottled water they should switch it tap water and send the rest of the money to organizations helping sanitize dirty water sources in developing countries. Why are we sending our disposible income to Coca-cola when it could be used to help others? In third world countries 80% of all illnesses are related to a lack of clean drinking water.
I think the crux of it is that half the world would kill to have access to what comes comes out of our taps and many people here turn their nose up at it.