Why You Should Stop Buying Bottled Water

ByStephanie Holmes, 06/26/2018

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According to statista.com, U.S. bottled water sales volume reached approximately 12.8 billion gallons in 2016, with a per capita consumption of 39.3 gallons. That puts our country's market as the largest bottled water consumer market in the world—and that's far from a good thing.

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IT's AN UNNECESSARY LUXURY

Whether you actually like water or not is irrelevant. We all need to drink it to survive, we simply don't have a choice. But what you can choose is how you buy and drink it. It may sound extreme, but the only time it should be OK to drink bottled water is if the tap water is unsafe to drink, if there's a national emergency or when the world has fallen into some sort of post-apocalyptic scenario. Here's why...