Bottled Water Facts

Bottled water costs 10,000 times more than tap water

53 Billion gallons of bottled water are consumed globally

Bottled water is not regulated through the same regulations as tap water

Some 4 billion PET bottles end up in the U.S. waste stream each year, costing cities some $70 million in cleanup and landfill costs

It takes about three liters of water and approximately 3.4 mega joules of energy to produce and sell a single liter of water in a plastic bottle