Bottled Water And The Environment

Here is a recent piece on the Global Warming impact of buying bottled water

Our guilty gallons
BOTTLED WATER'S IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT
By Mark Boslet
Mercury News
Article Launched: 12/16/2007 01:42:59 AM PST

Drinking a bottle of water might seem innocent enough, but each bottle has a downside many people overlook - a contribution to global warming.

That's because bottles create carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas, when they are made, trucked to a store and disposed of in a landfill or recycled. Their impact can quickly add up.

"Bottled water is an energy-intensive luxury for Americans," said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental think tank in Oakland. "It's certainly much less necessary than the other things we use energy for."


http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7736341?nclick_check=1