Enough with tha plastic bottles! They don't biodegrade and end up killing and contaminating tons of wildlife.  Bottling water is a stupid idea and the industry is now the root of a lot of grief all over the world. 

Use a reusabe, stainless steel water bottle and a home water filter instead of supporting the big water-bottlers of the world.

Why is water-bottling so bad anyway?  

A very small number of corporations and therefore people (stockholders in these corporations) own ALL of the water-bottling companies in the world!  That is astounding!  The world is a big place with lots of water-bottling plants how can they all be owned by the same 10 coporations? But much more astounding is the fact that they are making hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by selling people something that should be free to everybody in the world.  

In many parts of the world, water is almost free and is treated for drinkability and delivered to homes by a utility company (and if you have internet access and are reading this, I'm venturing to say that you're in the privileged group), .  In these privileged parts of the world, water companies are taking the very same water that everybody already pays for to have delivered in their homes and makes us pay again for it (and at ridiculous prices) for having but it in a plastic bottle for us.  In many case, like if it's called 'reverse-osmosis filtered' water, IT'S TAP WATER IN A BOTTLE!

In other parts of the world, parts that regularly experience heavy drought and low water-quality, where people have to make an effort to get clean water, water-companies are diverting water from streams or are damming streams to collect and treat and bottle the water.  Damming causes huge environmental impacts.  It holds the water upstream and takes it away from ecosystems and environments downstream, it also holds the valuable sediment that the water usually takes with it downstream.  This sediment, instead of serving as nutrients for plants and animals, sits in the reservoir and rots releasing gases and being wasted.  In these parts of the world, something that is in desperately high demand in nature and for people to grow food and stay healthy, is taken out of these environments and either trucked away to be sold elsewhwhere or sold back to the people whom it was just taken from at prices they can't afford.

After reading this, why would you want to support the people who are making astronomical amounts of money, taking from the earth and taking advantage of people by buying water that they put in a bottle for convenience. 

With a little fore-thought all of this can be avoided if you remember to always bring a reusable bottle of filtered water with you when you leave the house.  Whenever you leave the house just remember the basics of survival; food, water and rest and prepare accordingly depending on how long you'll be gone.

Never forget that you are saying YES! to a business or corporation every time you buy their product.  (You're also indirectly saying YES to the owners and stock holders of these businesses and corporations and the sort of people they are in the world)  So spend your money on businesses you know and trust and don't be afraid to dig in to find out weather or not you should trust a business or corporation. 

For more in depth info about the water bottling business see the movie "FLOW". Available at most movie rental stores.

Check out Flow's website.