The United States is the world’s largest consumer of bottled water. It currently consumes 29 billion bottles a year. It purchases an average of 30 gallons (a gallon is about 3.8 liters) of bottled water per person per year. The country purchases bottled water for a year. About 15 billion U.S. dollars.
The "Mayor's Conference of the United States," representing about 1,100 U.S. cities, devoted to the issue of bottled water. They believe that the United States spends up to 43 billion U.S. dollars a year to provide clean drinking water for the people. The quality of municipal water supply is absolutely first-rate. There are good reasons for boycotting bottled water. "The municipal departments themselves should take the lead in transforming this issue."
Although the “Mayors’ Conference†has no right to issue an order prohibiting municipalities in all cities from purchasing bottled water, more and more cities have begun to consciously resist bottled water under its initiative.
Los Angeles is a pioneer in this area. Since 1987, the city government has restricted the use of municipal funds to purchase bottled water. Today, this environmental protection initiative in Los Angeles attracts more and more American cities. For example, from the end of 2007, all municipalities and agencies in the City of San Francisco will ban the purchase of bottled water, which is estimated to save San Francisco $500,000 per year and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The city of St. Louis will also begin in early 2008, banning the purchase of bottled water for municipal staff.
In October last year, on the occasion of the “Consider water other than bottled water†campaign initiated by an organization called “Corporate Responsibility International,†the mayor of Salt Lake stated in his speech on boycotting bottled water that on the basis of quality and safe municipal water supply, Going to buy bottled water is "absurd and irresponsible" from an economic or environmental perspective.
According to statistics, the effective recycling rate of an astonishing number of bottled plastic bottles in the United States is not high, and as many as 86% of bottles have been thrown away as garbage. In the central city of Chicago, garbage that needs to be buried has been increasing year by year, and the budget for waste disposal has been rising. In November of this year, the city council decided that the bottled water in the city would add a tax of 5 cents per bottle to “strike on consumers' desire to buy." According to the latest November rule in Illinois, where Chicago is located, state government departments cannot use public funds to purchase bottled water in the future.
The New York City government also encourages residents to drink tap water. The municipal water utility in Louisville, Kentucky, also distributes a reusable bottle to its residents free of charge to encourage people to carry it in bottles filled with “pure†tap water.
The "Earth Policy Institute" report said that in addition to the above-mentioned cities, many other U.S. cities are discussing the issue of "returning tap water" and trying to make people buy less or not even bottled water.
Bottled water has been flourishing and popular for more than a decade, and many people have slowly been inclined to drink bottled water. The "Earth Policy Institute" report analyzes that actually more than a quarter of American bottled water is simply treated tap water.
In the United States, the highest price for a gallon of bottled water is up to $7, and plastic bottle materials are made from derivatives such as petroleum and other chemical raw materials. The United States needs to consume more than 17 million barrels of crude oil a year to produce plastic bottled bottled water. According to statistics, the entire process of perfusion, processing, transportation, and refrigerating of all bottled water consumed in the United States is reduced, equivalent to an annual consumption of more than 50 million barrels of crude oil.
In contrast, tap water is supplied directly to the household through municipal pipelines, and 1 gallon of tap water only takes less than 1 cent. The American people have now begun to count this account, and the number of people resisting bottled water is increasing.
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