How much freshwater does Canada have? The answer is about 9% of all the renewable freshwater resources in the world!
It’s virtually free at your tap too. The average cost per thousand liters of tap water is about fifty cents!
So why are people paying a dollar for 375 ml of water in a plastic bottle? If you think about it, that’s more than you pay for gasoline and everybody complains about the cost of gas!
Last year, 700 million liters of bottled water were sold in Canada at a cost of almost one-half billion dollars!
What people are not aware of is that one quarter of all bottled water in Canada comes directly from the tap and it is perfectly legal to do so.
Scientists have stated that in Canada, there is virtually no difference between bottled water and tap water and that tap water is totally drinkable.
Firms that sell bottled water claim that their industry is more tightly regulated than municipal water supplies. Scientists disagree.
Pierre Payment, an internationally recognized microbiologist at the Universite du Quebec, says, “There is more regulation in fact, for tap water. If you look at the number of samples that must be taken for water that reaches your tap, it’s huge! Each system is tested on a regular basis, almost daily.”
So why have people (especially visitors to Canada) taken to bottled water? The answers are simply, marketing and fear.
Two of the largest selling bands of bottled water in North America Dasani and Aquifina are owned by Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola respectively. Together hey account for billions (literally) in North American sales every year.
However, it was revealed that both companies were selling little more than filtered tap water. In fact, their bottles contained virtually the same water as your toilet. Scandalous!
The bottom line is that not only is tap water as good as bottled water; moreover, in 25% of the cases it is exactly the same product!
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This not something new. But people somehow have the misconception that bottled water, because it comes in a nice plastic bottle, must be cleaner than tap water. Many people are unaware that bottled water often contains large numbers of bacteria. And how many realize that these bottled waters are very often nothing more than treated municipal waters? Caveat emptor! And save your money buy drinking from the tap.