Glug, glug, glug … that’s the sound
a ginormous number of us make as we sip bottled water in
our cars, at the gym, behind our desks.
The sound you DON’T
hear is the thwack of 60
million bottles a day being tossed into landfills (in
the USA alone!), which requires more than 47 million
gallons of oil and results in one billion pounds
of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
Understandable then that UK Environment Minister Phil Woolas
condemned the bottled water industry on national TV, saying
it bordered on being ‘morally unacceptable’.
Plastic bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade and
leak toxic chemicals into the groundwater in the process.
If
that’s not enough to turn your conscience a brighter
shade of green, consider this: Producing all those bottles
uses up 1.5 million barrels of crude oil annually. That’s
enough fuel to keep 100,000 cars running for a year! Other studies
have shown that even a simple change from water bottles & coolers to
mainsfed (point of use) systems can reduce global CO2 emissions
by over 30%.
Did you know you can protect yourself,
your family and the
environment by purchasing simple and inexpensive upgrades
for your home?
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint!
By combining the use of the aquasana Countertop Filter® with
stainless steel or other reusable bottle use, you can drastically
reduce your use of plastic bottles and conveniently provide
your family with better than bottled water quality water
- all for less than 2¢ a bottle!
Save Precious Water
An aquasana® Shower
Filter allows you
to easily convert your regular showerhead into a water-conserving,
low-flow showerhead.
Without impeding your shower’s flow, an aquasana® filter
reduces water consumption from 4 gallons per minute to just
2.5 gallons per minute (meaning it lowers your water-related
carbon footprint as well). It also helps protect you and
your loved ones from harmful THMs.