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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 175612" data-attributes="member: 7533">Some facts about water...At $2.50 [U.S.] per liter [$10 U.S. a gallon], bottled water costs more than gasoline.Bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, but it can be 10,000 times more expensive.People's thirst for bottled water is producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy, even in areas where perfectly good drinking water is available on tap. The U.S. as the world's biggest drinker of bottled water, consuming 7 billion gallons (26 billion liters) annually.The Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City-based action group estimated 25 percent of bottled water is "really just tap water in a bottleâ€”sometimes further treated, sometimes not." The high mineral content of some bottled waters makes them unsuitable for feeding babies and young children.Worldwide some 2.7 million tons (2.4 million metric tons) of plastic are used to bottle water each year, according to EPI. The plastic most commonly used is polyethylene terepthalate (PET), which is derived from crude oil. Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year," EPI's Arnold said</blockquote>