Bottled water

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. Health 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
10,000 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. 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. Environmen
t
In summary, tap water
is health–friendly as :
1. 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.
3. Doesn’t require burning massive
quantities of fossil fuels polluting the
air we breath and taking 1000 years to
biodegrade.

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

19. Environmen
t
In summary, tap water is
finance–friendly as it:
1. Can cost up to 10,000 times less then
bottled water!
2. 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
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
neighbor and he comes on board,
you are already in business to
pocket some really cool profits!
Let’s calculate...

28. Cost
One neighbor - 500 Euros a year
Five neighbors - 2500 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
representative to find
out more about
Aquarion water filter
and ionizer.
Also visit us at:
www.facebook.com/Calivita.International

30. References & Sources
*According to the Container Recycling Institute, US data.
http://www.container-recycling.org/
Source: 2006 Earth Policy Institute
Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain
Emily Arnold and Janet Larsen
http://www.earth-policy.org/
Source: Pacific Institute
http://pacinst.org/