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>Earth Policy Institute

>Plan B Update

>For Immediate Release

>December 7, 2007

>

>BOTTLED WATER BOYCOTTS

>Back-to-the-Tap Movement Gains Momentum

>

>http://www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm

>

>Janet Larsen

>

> From San Francisco to New York to Paris, city governments, high-class

> restaurants, schools, and religious groups are ditching bottled water in

> favor of what comes out of the faucet. With people no longer content to

> pay 1,000 times as much for bottled water, a product no better than water

> from the tap, a backlash against bottled water is growing.

>

>The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which represents some 1,100 American

>cities, discussed at its June 2007 meeting the irony of purchasing bottled

>water for city employees and for city functions while at the same time

>touting the quality of municipal water. The group passed a resolution

>sponsored by Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, Rocky Anderson of Salt

>Lake City, and R. T. Rybak of Minneapolis that called for the examination

>of bottled water’s environmental impact. The resolution noted that with

>$43 billion a year going to provide clean drinking water in cities across

>the country, “the United States’ municipal water systems are among the

>finest in the world.”

>

>While the Mayors Conference fell short of moving to stop taxpayer money

>from filling the coffers of water bottlers, a growing number of cities are

>heading in that direction. Los Angeles, which has restricted the purchase

>of bottled water with city funds since 1987, now has more company. By the

>end of 2007, purchasing bottled water will be off-limits for San

>Francisco’s departments and agencies, saving a half-million dollars each

>year and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. St. Louis is poised to ban

>bottled water purchases for city employees in early 2008.

>

>At the launch of Corporate Accountability International’s “Think Outside

>the Bottle” campaign in October, Mayor Anderson of Salt Lake City

>described the “total absurdity and irresponsibility, both economic and

>environmental, of purchasing and using bottled water when we have

>perfectly good and safe municipal sources of tap water.” He urged city

>government departments and restaurants to stop buying bottled water.

>

>In November, the city council of Chicago, beleaguered by swelling

>landfills and a stretched budget, placed a landmark tax of 5¢ on every

>bottle of water sold in the city in order to discourage consumption. That

>same month, Illinois state agencies were banned from purchasing bottled

>water with government funds. With 86 percent of used water bottles in the

>United States ending up as garbage or litter instead of being recycled,

>switching from the bottle to the tap helps to alleviate the trash burden.

>

>New York City is urging residents to drink tap water, which is naturally

>filtered in the protected Catskill forest region. In Kentucky, the

>Louisville water utility hands out free bottles for residents to fill with

>“Pure Tap.” Dozens of other local governments are talking up tap water and

>are looking into banning the bottle. (See

>http://www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2007/Update68_data.htm for a list and

>additional data.)

>

>Tap water promotional campaigns would have seemed quaint a few decades

>ago, when water in bottles was a rarity. Now such endeavors are needed to

>counteract the pervasive marketing that has caused consumers to lose faith

>in the faucet. In fact, more than a quarter of bottled water is just

>processed tap water, including top-selling Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s

>Dasani. When Pepsi announced in July that it would clearly label its

>Aquafina water as from a “public water source,” it no doubt shocked

>everyone who believed that bottles with labels depicting pristine

>mountains or glaciers delivered a superior product.

>

>Despite the less-frequent quality testing and sometimes commonplace origin

>of the product, bottled water consumption has soared. Annual consumption

>in the United States in 1976 was less than 2 gallons for every man, woman,

>and child; some 30 years later, Americans on average each now drink about

>30 gallons of bottled water a year.

>

>All this hydration costs Americans more than $15 billion a year. The price

>of individual bottles of water ranges up to several dollars a gallon (and

>more for designer brands), while tap water is delivered directly to homes

>and offices for less than a penny a gallon. People complaining about

>$3-a-gallon gasoline may start to wonder why they are paying even more per

>gallon for bottled water.

>

>With sales growing by 10 percent each year, far faster than any other

>beverage, bottled water now appears to be the drink of choice for many

>Americans--they swallow more of it than milk, juice, beer, coffee, or tea.

>While some industry analysts are counting on bottled water to beat out

>carbonated soft drinks to top the charts in the near future, the

>burgeoning back-to-the-tap movement may reverse the trend.

>

>In contrast to tap water, which is delivered through an energy-efficient

>infrastructure, bottled water is an incredibly wasteful product. It is

>usually packaged in single-serving plastic bottles made with fossil fuels.

>Just manufacturing the 29 billion plastic bottles used for water in the

>United States each year requires the equivalent of more than 17 million

>barrels of crude oil.

>

>After being filled, the bottles may travel far. Nearly one quarter of

>bottled water crosses national borders before reaching consumers, and part

>of the cachet of certain bottled water brands is their remote origin.

>Adding in the Pacific Institute’s estimates for the energy used for

>pumping and processing, transportation, and refrigeration, brings the

>annual fossil fuel footprint of bottled water consumption in the United

>States to over 50 million barrels of oil equivalent--enough to run 3

>million cars for one year. If everyone drank as much bottled water as

>Americans do, the world would need the equivalent of more than 1 billion

>barrels of oil to produce close to 650 billion individual bottles.

>

>Concerns about this high energy use and the associated contribution to

>climate change, along with worries about waste, are driving many groups

>back to tap water. The United Church of Canada is one of the religious

>groups abandoning bottled water for moral reasons. The Berkeley school

>district no longer offers bottled water. And after watching 3,000 empty

>bottles pile up each week, the Nashville law firm Bass, Berry, & Sims has

>stopped stocking bottled water.

>

>Europeans have long led the world in per person consumption of bottled

>water. Italy tops the list worldwide, with Italians drinking 54 gallons

>per person in 2006. Italy is closely trailed in per capita consumption by

>the United Arab Emirates and Mexico, followed by France, Belgium, Germany,

>and Spain.

>

>Yet even in Western Europe the bottle is starting to lose clout. Rome, a

>city of historic fountains, is promoting its tap water. Florence’s city

>council, schools, and other public offices offer only city water. In the

>United Kingdom, the Treasury and the Department of Environment, Food and

>Rural Affairs have ceased offering bottled water at official functions.

>Bottled water sales in Scandinavia are projected to fall because of

>growing environmental concerns.

>

>Even France, home to Evian, is seeing a sales slowdown. During a 2005 tap

>water promotion campaign in Paris, the water utility handed out refillable

>glass carafes. Now Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë serves only tap water at

>official events and encourages others to do the same. Total bottled water

>sales in France fell in 2004 and 2005, but rebounded in 2006.

>

>Slowing sales may be the wave of the future as the bottle boycott movement

>picks up speed. With more than 1 billion people around the globe still

>lacking access to a safe and reliable source of water, the $100 billion

>the world spends on bottled water every year could certainly be put to

>better use creating and maintaining safe public water infrastructure

>everywhere.

>

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>

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